Cliché, Yes, but the Journey Actually IS What It’s All About
I was sitting on a couch in my friend Joe Hammond’s recording studio the other day listening to the song we’d just recorded when suddenly I felt completely empty, even a little depressed. The recording was great, probably only 70% finished but definitely a successful and fun day’s work and easy to see how from [...]
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by Seamus on February 1, 2012
in Goals, magic, Motivation
You’ve made the plan. You know what you want and have a good idea of how you might go about starting to get it. It’s all there – all you’ve got to do is make the call, spend the money, have the difficult conversation. Often this is the point where the detailed plan gets put [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Middle Age is the New Teenage
Share This -I think middle-age is a lot like being a teenager, you wind up back where you started, bored in suburbia, sitting on the couch thinking: “Is this it? Surely there’s more!” When you are a teenager at home abiding by other people’s rules and when you are all grown-up with responsibilities, you have something to [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Is The Internet Doomed?
by Seamus on December 14, 2011
in Social Media
Potentially, yes. Really – do you think the suits in high places like us being able to disrupt industries, undermine monopolies and overthrow governments using upstart technology that they have no control over? Could “stopping piracy” possibly be just a great excuse to gradually lock the Internet down and turn it into a top-down broadcast [...]
Read the rest of this entry »So, About Those Voices In Your Head…
The Wrong Voice tells you to do things to make money. It says “Make money first, then you will be free to pursue your dreams”. But the Wrong Voice is full of crap. The Wrong Voice comes from your Lizard Brain, the amygdale. It’s the reptilian part of your brain that is not very intelligent [...]
Read the rest of this entry »How to Clean the Fluff Off Your Brain in 7 Easy Steps
by Seamus on November 28, 2011
in Fluff, Music Business, Music marketing
Brains are sticky, and unfortunately this means that as you suffer the inevitable rolls in the dust piles of life, fluff sticks to your brain and starts to build up. This is especially true for creative types. I think that this is because the ideas in our brains are inherently stickier, thus attracting more fluff. [...]
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by Seamus on November 23, 2011
in Goals, Music Business
Yesterday I sat in meeting with my two business mentors and realised that despite what I like to tell myself to the contrary, I am a fluffy-brained creative type, not a hard-nose businessman. Both of these guys are very successful businessmen but in a grounded low-ego kind of way. When I say successful I mean [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Creatures from the Bog (Have Needs Too)
by Seamus Anthony on July 12, 2011
in Music
A new recording and youtube video by Seamus Anthony (err, as in, me) I wrote “Creatures from the Bog” while driving in the country one day. My car radio wasn’t working so I just jammed the song up sans-axe, and then grabbed a guitar later and the chords were just there a-waitin’. This actual version [...]
Read the rest of this entry »What the %$#@ is a Zuiiza?
by Zuiiza on July 10, 2011
in Uncategorized
When Peter and Tony and I committed to starting a band, the search for a name was the order of the day. It had to be unique, not too long and we need to be able to buy the dot com … and (more of a challenge) we all needed to agree. Well it took [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Fox Magic & the 7 Rules of Quantum Cookery
by Seamus Anthony on May 31, 2011
in Quantum, Success
By Seamus Anthony Yesterday, walking down our driveway, I came face to face to with a fox! The fuzzy-tailed fellow paused for but a moment, shocked at my sudden appearance, before bolting across the road and through the garden of my neighbour. Thankfully there was no car coming, and he got away clean. I got [...]
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