Hell is an Infinite To-Do List
Sorry I missed my newsletter yesterday. It was Canadian Thanksgiving. I decided to take the day off… mostly. I worked on some visuals in the morning before we had a family dinner. That was very nice. My nephew is 5 now and I’m officially the “fun uncle” aka let’s whip Beanie Babies at my head while we run around my parents’ basement screaming (him in joy and me in fear.) It is a blast though and I love spending time with him.
I guess there’s nothing more Canadian than apologizing for missing a free Newsletter I send that no one expects because of a holiday. I wonder if that’s a Canadian thing or if it’s the source of something internal. I made a promise to myself to try and write this every week on Monday, and missing that feels like I let myself down in a weird way. Logically, I know that’s not something to actually be upset about, but it still sort of hurts?
I think that’s how I feel about to-do lists. I have my daily tasks that I start with each day, and then as a new task pops into my head I also add it to the list. Very often the list becomes longer than what’s possible to do that day, and then even if I’ve knocked off 7 out of 8 things, the whole day feels like a failure because I didn’t finish the list. (The damn list that I kept extending? Some sick-psychological-experiment of: “I bet i could get more done if i really tried.”) I remember reading once that Warren Buffet says to write down your top 10 things to do, then eliminate the bottom 8 and only focus on the top 2. And you can’t do anything else until the top 2 are finished. This sounds great in theory but when your #1 is always “finish your next album” you can’t just stop doing laundry until thats finished. I need clean shirts!
In other news, I just announced a lot of tour dates. Drop a comment on the instagram post if you’re coming. Tag a friend if you’re bringing them. Tell me what city I’m missing if you don’t see yours. Sometimes I feel like i’m beating a dead horse asking for comments etc, but it truly helps keep these tours running if the engagement is there, what with being held hostage to the algorithm and all. I appreciate every one of you who takes the time to leave a message. (In the words of every youtuber, don’t forget to smash that like button and subscribe!)
The show is looking great by the way, I’m really proud of it. It’s been daunting making the visuals myself and figuring out the music I want to play (some unreleased and tons of edits). But I think I’ve found my flow for this tour: housey and feel-good vibes. I just want to have fun and hope everyone feels that way at the show.
Today’s newsletter made no sense. Hope you enjoyed.
Welcome to my mind LOL.
See you next monday (I promise).
-felix