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Today I watched a biography on Philip Glass. I recently stumbled upon him as a composer after this last season of “House” used a small orchestral piece of his in their intro. I immediately jumped online to figure out if anyone recognized the piece, sure enough several others had beaten me to the question and there was a response. I browsed through the Amazon MP3 store to find that Philip Glass was not some new guy on the block. So I started listening to various pieces. I was drawn to his piano works first having so an affinity for piano pieces. I quickly fell in love with his 5 pieces of Metamorphosis. I couldn’t stop listening to them. For the last several months I have played these pieces nearly every day. The other day I went back to the Amazon store to find some more pieces to grab, and in the process came across a new biography that was recently released in the last few months. I decided to check it out and was thoroughly inspired by his cavalier attitude about his accomplishments and his different take on things. He reminds me of what I love about Tim Burton, a fresh take on things that you’ve seen before that never cropped up in your wildest dreams. I like to think I take a similar approach with computers, always wanting to push the envelope in terms of what I can dream up. My problem comes in with accomplishing those dreams. I still lack necessary skills in several subject matters that are holding me back. Luckily this is a problem that can be remedied.

On a side note, I have decided to add a small goal for the end of this year, to have read 25 new books. I have already plowed through roughly 5. I loved reading when I was little, and my Kindle has renewed that passion. I don’t think I have ever read through 25 books in 6ish months before, so I think it will be a great challenge for me.