Jay Mathes

Author: jaymathes

  • Wasting Time on Vlad Studios

    For starters, let me say “Wow. I can’t believe it has been a month since I last posted.” I feel like a real slacker, that’s for sure. But as I’m sure you’re aware, the itch to blog kinda waxes and wanes, if you catch my lunar drift.

    So, for the most part, I haven’t been slacking off. But today I have been – just a little. Just a few, short hours ago, I finished a complete OS reinstall on my computer. Why? Because I was having some really screwed up issues with the software I use to record most of my music, and I thought it may have been related to something I did with deleting and adding different users in the OS. Okay, so if all of that doesn’t interest you at all, just forget the last 45 seconds and continue reading…
    This early evening, I spent close to 45 minutes admiring the work of one Vlad Gerasimov. He’s a sweet graphic designer and he has this awesome website where people can download his desktop background graphics and photos. Here it is: http://www.vladstudio.com.
    My favorite pictures are always the ones that are clever (as well as sharp-looking) – not just your normal sort of concepts (stars in the sky, underwater scene, etc.). One of my favorites has got to be this one: http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpaper/?lightbulb. It’s of a personified lightbulb, sitting in wonder of the starlit sky. Just a cool concept, if you ask me.

  • That I-Need-to-Sneeze-But-I-Can’t Feeling

    I’ve been sick for the last few days, and for better or worse, it has given me some time to think. Yeah, I know. When is a songwriter not contemplating about life and death and all matters in between. Well, this morning, while I was drinking some Stash chamomile tea, I came up with an interesting metaphor…

    All of life is like that feeling you get when you’re about to sneeze. Your eyes tear up, your nose starts to tingle with pressure, and yet, the sneeze never comes. It gets stuck somewhere between your throat and your sphenoidal sinus (or somewhere else you’ve never heard of). In life, we all long and hope for things. We have unfulfilled desires and dreams. We all want what’s best – for ourselves, for everyone – yet we often have no idea what “the best” might actually be. We are caught in the space occupied by unrealized potential.
    This is what I am now coining as Sneeze Tension. Do you feel it? I feel it every day. Sick or not.