Unproductivity.

I tend to work in bursts, which makes it difficult to maintain a blog singularly designed to display my productivity. Lately I've been unproductive, spending my free time rather enjoyably playing video games. My goal is to use these gaps in productivity (more precisely content) to tell you, faithful reader, a little more about myself.

I learned how to play music from Jim Reilly. Our lessons were very loosely structured. I walked in, Jim told me what key we were playing in, we improvised until Jim stopped and told me to get the fuck out, I walked out. This worked for me. I didn't really want to learn songs and Jim was happy to play with someone who was old enough to actually hold their instrument. I was 22 years old at the time and waited for lessons to start in a hallway with children leaning against guitars bigger than they were and ballerinas running around aspiring to be princesses.

I learned more about musicianship than I ever would have learning actual songs. Don't tell anyone but I've recently found out that learning songs helps develop technique much quicker, and I probably should have spent more time on it. The most important part of these lessons was to never stop playing once you've played everything you know, but to keep going, and that's where really interesting music happens. Stuff you've never heard comes out. So, faithful reader, through this requirement to fill the void, update the last edited time stamp, these gaps in content may help you learn something about me as a person, and not just about what I do.

To help introduce myself I'll show you something on jimmycorp that you may have missed. The unreality gallery is a cache of images that I like or have some bizarre attachment to. The most personal is a photograph of my great great Grandfather Tousaint Lucier in handcuffs in front of the Regina Courthouse.

He was one of Louis Riel's councilmen and was arrested following the rebellion. It's likely that clicking on the picture above will not get you there, but keep clicking and you'll see a big version eventually.

Lionel likes to put other images in here, as it is somewhat of a dumping ground. I sift through it every once in a while to make sure it all resonates with me. If you see something really twisted, it's probably Lionel's doing. Not me, never.