I tagged along to Secret Studios with my friend Jon for a jam session and realized why I’d never finished a song as a teenager.
I left a little ashamed of how I’ve gotten in my own way, but also inspired by what I now feel empowered to do.
The first thing Jon and I did was triangulate towards something that was alive for both of us that day. We talked a lot about flow. For me it was writing, or breaking. For Jon it was music and skating. We loved the moments when we were totally absorbed and everything else just faded to the background.
As a teenager, I’d written plenty of riffs and fragments but that was as far as I’d gotten. I was so obstinately opposed to doing it the easy way that I was never good enough to do it any way at all.
