midoriw:

I didn’t try seriously getting into recording because I assumed that when I got to university, I wouldn’t have time for recording anymore among the myriad of extracurriculars I planned to participate in. That was a good call, and I was right about that much. But my main reason for not trying was that I assumed there’d be people much better than I already doing it, and I would never get to actually have my hands on a project again.

I should have known I’d end up getting involved anyway - That’s just who I am. This is just what I love.

I feel like this is analogous to my relationship with acting and theater.

Recording has never been negotiable. Even when I was five or six years old I carried a microcassette recorder with me almost daily, ready to document anything or everything that happened. Its presence in my life has been steadily evolving ever since and will continue to, probably forever.

Acting, on the other hand, was something that I really only got into in middle/high school, and while I got very into it, I was only sort of good at it. Content to focus on my backstage/behind the scenes talents for the duration, I figured my last dance with the stage was channeling my inner Colin Firth for The Importance of Being Earnest (I even look like him). I entered college seeing myself strictly as an engineer/producer/sound designer/stage manager type.

As the second year soldiers on, though, it’s becoming clear that I will go back to acting eventually (perhaps sooner rather than later?) because it’s addictive and “the twitch” is one I can only ignore for so long. As t approaches infinity, probability that Ben is in a play (or indie film! Never got around to doing one of those) approaches 1. I have friends across the river who direct various productions all the time, from the overdone to the downright experimental. All that’s left is to overcome inertia, get on the train, and audition…