Shut Down for Good
Posted by: Bill on: February 3, 2009
This blog is now officially shut down. All of its contents has now been moved to http://leftofbill.tk
Please update your bookmarks and RSS readers. From now on all updates will take place at the new “to the Left of Bill“
This site will cease to exist altogether in a short while. Remember, every last piece of archived content here can be found at http://leftofbill.tk and new articles are added many times a week.
Stats
Posted by: Bill on: February 3, 2009
Both my blogs are really slow on the visitors (between 1 and 3 a day for my main one) but the new one has officially outpaced this one (not by much)
Looks like its working
Posted by: Bill on: January 21, 2009
It looks like only posting a portion of my blogs is driving people to the new site (http://leftofbill.tk). I’m delighted. And giddy. As soon as things over there start outpacing things over here then I’ll delete the blog at this web address completely.
Yeah, this is another plug for the new and improved (and just redesigned this past weekend) to the Left of Bill (version 2.1). Visit if you haven’t and keep coming back if you already know. See ya
-Bill (***http://LEFTofBILL.tk***)
New Design
Posted by: Bill on: January 19, 2009
LeftofBill.tk has a brand new design. The first one was too busy, had a bad color scheme and was not very user friendly.
Now that the site isn’t ugly there is no excuse not to visit there from now on. Again, every last post you can find here, including archived, new, old, etc., can be found there.
If the site looks buggy do this:
1. Empty your browser’s cache
2. If you don’t know how/don’t want to/can’t then you’ll have to refresh your browser until things look right.
Now that the design is cleaner there is no excuse not to visit http://leftofbill.tk
How Awesome my Mac is
Posted by: Bill on: January 18, 2009
I have extensive Windows experience but in the 4 years since I owned a Mac I have never looked back.
Check out all the memory instensive apps I can run at once. On a Windows machine my computer would have froze or crashed but on my Mac I was able to run all these apps for over 8 hours (while using all of them at once) and performance didn’t suffer at all
Here are all the open programs I had running today – This doesn’t include the apps that only show up in my Menu Bar:
How to Write a Song Part Deaux
Posted by: Bill on: January 16, 2009
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No article anywhere can tell you how to get rid of writer’s block. What I’ve found helpful is to learn about other people’s experiences on this personal road to artistic recovery.
Last week on Songwriting Wednesday I wrote a post about how to write a song. Sure, it isn’t Songwriting Wednesday but it is How-To Friday so I’m going get into that subject some more since this is something I’m actually having an issue with right now. This isn’t a step by step tutorial like the last one was. Its more of… well, its just different.
For a little over a month now I’ve been religiously attending a local open mic night. I’ve been writing and performing at least one new song per week. Suddenly I’ve hit a wall. Actually, the wall was there all along. Its just that I denied its existence.
To understand what brought me to this point you have to go back at least a year, possibly two. Being the rock and roller that I am I decided that the whole sex and drugs thing was something I could handle. I over indulged, ended up ruining my life, and in the process managed to stop caring about my art. It was so sad because without music I don’t make sense. And I don’t mean other people’s music, I mean writing my own. I sold my Fender Strat and a vintage Epiphone acoustic that was way cheaper than it should have been.
After that I didn’t write for about a year. Didn’t even think about it. All my instruments and recording equipment were gone.
Two months ago I got myself together. But I can’t be totally together without my music. I was fortunate enough to get a beautiful Epiphone Dot Studio (the kind Pete Yorn uses… sort of).
I’ve been writing songs every week but none of them are any good. I mean they are certainly passable and they aren’t anything that would get you booed off a stage but they aren’t me. They have no heart. The music is written so quickly and the lyrics have no heart at all.
I said last week that inspiration is for suckers. And that definitely still holds true…
HA! You didn’t think I’d do it! The full article is available at http://leftofbill.tk – If you want to read full posts you must go there from now on!
Update your bookmarks
Posted by: Bill on: January 15, 2009
How many times do I have to tell you people!!!! Every last post that you can find here (even archived posts) can be found at the new site. Go there. Bookmark it. Then go there from now on. I can tell if people have been visiting and they haven’t! So stop being stubborn and go to the new blog! Go! http://leftofbill.tk
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