Friday, October 14, 2016

A life time's meat and potato's

October 14th
I have been reflecting on a conversation I had back in Cordoba with a member of the band Power Sexy, Guanma. Sofia and Power Sexy did a cover of Barbie girl that was really good and I filmed it for Instagram. I accidentally stole Guanma's shirt because it was under my jacket so the day following the recording he invited me to go on some errands with him and I gave him back my shirt.We walked through the beautiful and unfamiliar Cordoba and talked about how his band had made it viral through a video but that it was not enough to constantly strive to make viral hits. As an artist, or artists  you need basic material. The analogy I thought of immediately was meat and potatoes vs. the ice cream. The ice cream is the viral videos that make it big. But a meal can't be all ice cream or it isn't any good (at least not nourishing) a meal requires meat and potatoes or real content with substance. One thing I have learned while creating this blog is how time consuming it can really be to do something well. I am came into this blog with no real expectations of it but to reach the bare minimum of blog still has required time and real content. I find my mind still drifting toward the idea that I could write a passage that would acquire many views and be really enjoyed by people and be really good. This is a trap fall I feel that I have and probably a lot of people have been absorbed in. Writing a really good blog is not to come all of a sudden. I need to work up a lot more meat a potato's and share those meat and potato's a lot more before I were to break through to the ice cream. This meat and potatoes metaphor has me thinking differently then I did before about careers. Those 8 hours a day people go to work is what primarily determines the content or meat and potato's of their life. That's why it is so crucial to do what your passion is and what will make you great in those hours. So when you are older you can look back at your life and see more then just time spent making money but time spent making you great. Here is some meat and potato's in the form of a Lomito I had in a a restaurant called Budda in Satiago Del Estero. 

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