Debut album?

As I've mentioned here, I got the recording from my concert on April 14th, 2005. I've been listening to it quite a lot. Actually, I'm listening to it right now as I write this.

So, here's the deal:

Not long after the concert, I started thinking about a possible approach to my debut album. You see, I have somewhere around 20 to 25 pieces. They're all between two minutes and some change and 3 1/2 minutes, usually. This means I've probably got an hour or so of music right now.

So, I was thinking about planning for two albums, whereas each could be around a half hour long. I wouldn't throw everything in on the debut album, partially so that I wouldn't be depleting my stockpile for future releases.

Then, you see, I got this recording.

When I plan for a full-length concert, I DO try to maximize my efforts with as much of my best material as I can reasonably muster, and I try to arrange the order of pieces in a hopefully sensical and relative way...

...much in the way some people try to do when making an album.

So, it seems that I, at the very least, have the blueprint for my debut album...

...and, possibly, the album itself.

This is where it gets a little tricky.

You see, as I've said, I'm very happy with my performance. The only thing I take slight issue with are the occassional things I feel I didn't execute perfectly cleanly...things that, apparently, have gone unnoticed so far, not counting myself.

Have you ever listened to a DVD commentary? On many of them, someone will point out "Oh, GOD, I completely screwed up that gesture. That is not how I wanted to do that at all. How embarassing." Have you EVER taken note of what they were referring to before they went out of their way to point it out to you?

This may be the category where these little inaccuracies fall into. Because, otherwise, it's the album!

It's quite an enticing propostion for me to make my debut album the first known debut album recorded in one take, live in concert...but I still have to deliberate about it and get more feedback about it.

people

People are people.

It's a funny word if you really look at it.

It looks like "Pee-oh-play".

People are funny to me. It seems like most people fall into some kind of category, and it seems like if you've met one person, you may as well have met millions of others alive right now who are very similar to them.

I just don't feel like I truly identify with anyone. The closest exceptions are my brothers and my parents.

Have you ever walked into a party filled with a lot of people you don't know and had that isolated, marooned feeling?

I seem to have that feeling, or some variation of it, most of the time when I'm interacting with the world at large.

I guess that's to be expected on some level. I mean, there's no one doing what I'm doing just in terms of the music. That seems to be an indication that I'm coming from somewhere that's not normal, or standard, something that IS off-the-beaten-path, or whatever.

For a long time, while still confusing and painful at times, it was mostly interesting and even entertaining to experience my difference in relation to others. Nowadays, it's bothersome.