Final Project

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Here is my final project. A short song expressing my short journey in this course. Just pick the song Hidden4.2.mp3 and click play.
-Bill

The Self/Identity Project...

   Well here are the lyrics to the song I've been working on. These two stanzas or whatever you call them, lines, represent the transition from fear to light that I have experienced through this class. I'm not sayin' I am without fear or stage fright completely, I mean I have broken through that which has held me back for so many years.
 I shall post the completed song for Wednesdays final class.
-Bill

HIDDEN
written by William F. Backhoff
6/19/2011

I've hidden you
Inside me

I've hidden you
Despite me

In my mind

You held the fear
I thought I
I
I had lost

But I
Was wrong


I realized
I'm hidden

Where no one else
Can find me

So I thought

I've always been
In the sun
Now
I will run

Toward
My dream...

the Self Project...

   All week I have  been thinking about me. It sounds vain but its been necessary for this assignment. I think I will write a song with lyrics, obviously, that will attempt to cover my whole life up until now and in the process help me and maybe others who I am.

Bliss...

   For class this past Wednesday I found bliss in a nice long nap with a bit of reading to start. As a stay at home dad and student who has the crappiest part time job in the world, I need my rest, if not physically then mentally for sure. However I didn't just find one 3 hour period of bliss I found other smaller periods that I quickly took advantage of. I watched a few movies I had previously not seen and spent some time cooking. I like to cook.
   Now I will think of a project about me or whatever.

Fear continued

I was able to successfully  perform one of my songs for the class. I must admit I was very nervous and just wanted to leave. I could pick that performance apart for weeks but I won't. It was extremely fun to sit up there and talk to the class about the guitar and the song. I am very glad I challenged myself by using this assignment to confront one of my longest lasting fears. Thanks to the class for allowing me to do it!
-Bill

FEAR!!!

   Well last week I attempted to scare or disturb everyone in the class by playing a piece of audio I put together that sounded like a mass shooting. It failed fantastically. Its just as well though because that whole project was skirting my real fear which is performing alone in front of a crowd. This week I will face that fear. I will perform a song I wrote in front of the class... and most likely forget how it goes.

Play Time

  When I play, I usually play with one of my big boy toys like my computer or recording equipment. When I go out to play I jump on my motorcycle and meet my friends out and we go for a ride around town. But sometimes I find one of my sons Hot Wheels cars and I push it around the kitchen floor just like I did when I was small.
   Last Sunday at the track the Hot Wheels company had a life sized jump track set up and they were planning on running a truck down a giant piece of track then jumping it over a huge ramp. They also had a life sized version of one of the first Hot Wheels cars ever made. It was awesome!


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