From everyone here at All Things That Are Good.

I’ve decided that what my continued creativity (musically) requires is, first and foremost, ease. I need to be able to translate as fast as possible any and all ideas from my brain to my hands to a digital recording. Ideally, that process would move as quickly as an idea enters my thoughts, but I think I’d simply have to settle for the next best thing.

What that requires is having a digital workstation at my disposal virtually anywhere, i.e. on my laptop. I have this dream of being able to quickly hook up some microphones in my bedroom and doing guitars and a basic demo then taking my computer down to campus and doing vocals/piano/etc. in the fine arts building studio/practice rooms/class rooms.

The issue for me, since I was in the eighth grade experimenting with sequencers and DAWs, has been money. I’ve never had enough money to bring all of these things together, even now with the (relatively) decent-paying job I have.

So, I hate the idea of gift giving and receiving, but if anyone wants to get me these or this or this or (for my own indulgence) this for the holidays or my birthday it would be incredibly appreciated. I’ll write a song for you or some shit.

In actuality, I loathe pandering for gifts, or even asking for them. As I said, I hate the gifting process and all the anxiety and expectation it entails, so in some ways you could say I detest Christmas (but only the commercial capitalist side of it). Therefore, as the post title suggests, you should disregard this whole thing.