Truck linked to this DIY movie on minnesotathinktank. The movie looks awesome! I can't wait until it comes to Minneapolis in August.

Sometimes I wish I lived a sort of Mike Watt lifestyle. You know, cool bands, playing music for a living, punk rock icon. I guess mostly the playing music for a living part.

The problem is I'm doing other things. Namely raising two wonderful girls. That pretty much takes up my time. I've made choices that don't allow me to live as independent a life as I once thought I would have. Even though I wish I could be the unattached musician at times, I'm not willing to give up what I already have.

I've decided I want it all. I've read too many interviews with professional musicians where they've gone through multiple marriages and seem to have a pretty messed-up personal life. I want the family, the house and to be a musician. We'll see if I can manage it all. At the pace I'm going, I might be able to be a professional musician by the time I retire. I'm patient.

On a technical side note, I'm borrowing my sister's iBook for the summer as I've mentioned several times. Today I was using it so I could convert some CD's to mp3's while I was upstairs. (I just ran my computer downstairs into my stereo so I could control my music with iTunes.) All of the sudden both computers started crashing as soon as I even tried to convert a CD. This evening as I booted the iBook to do this blog, I got a warning message that the date had been somehow set to 1972. I looked at my mp3's and they all have modification dates in 2039 and 2040! Even the ones I'd converted previously. Needless to say, I think the weird time difference between the computers was causing the crashes. The ol' network didn't like that too much. I'm not sure why I'm sharing this, except that I find it mildly amusing. I just hope it's a fluke and not a virus.