![]() I had wanted to take classes prior, but just couldn’t swing it due to time. I am giving back to the community when I volunteer regularly, I am looking for a new job that stimulates me more, I am working out to improve my health, and I continue to take music classes to stay creative.įor about a year and a half, I’ve been taking guitar classes at the Old Town School of Folk music. To do that, I’m engaging on multiple fronts. And that makes me unafraid to work towards bettering myself. ![]() I love life and I have a thirst for challenge and experience. I’ve been feeling really good about the life I’ve bene making for myself. ![]() Taking that step and committing to an exercise routine has now become another way for me to live for myself. Having been wanting to make more room for exercise, I found this community park gym to be a nice compromise because of the price and the staff has been so nice. For $20, I can use their facilities to work out and improve my health and physique. I recently found a fitness center at a Chicago park near my apartment. Plus, I like to run outside and treadmills feel so unnatural to me. For the most part, gyms are smelly, overpriced, and you’re surrounded by people who make you more self-conscious. Since I knew what it was like to not have a life when someone exerted so much control over you, I wanted to live on my own terms and that involved doing everything I felt like I was missing out on. In the last few years, I started volunteering for CHIRP Radio, picked up reading as a hobby, volunteered for a few other media arts non-profits, and starting other hobbies that make me happy and diversify my outlets. While, I think, most people would’ve taken some time off, I hit the ground running and started to focus on things that I enjoyed. In some respects, I’ve been living on borrowed time since then. My transition after that job was tough, but I got through it. My health was declining, my relationship at the time suffered, and it seemed as though no other options were available.įortunately, that toxic situation ended over three years ago and I’m thoroughly grateful. I was working over 70 hours a week for an abusive person and with such a chaotic schedule that it was hard to focus on myself and my well-being. There was a period in my life where I didn’t have the time, energy, or money to focus on hobbies, friendships, or anything else that would contribute to someone’s development as a well-rounded person. However, that hasn’t been the only thing I’ve been focused on. In last week’s entry, I talked about taking steps to jumpstart my career. Though I am a fairly ambitious person, I have been a lot more motivated lately. After spending several months cold and inside during winter, spring reinvigorates me and makes me feel more alive. The crisp mornings and warm afternoons of spring really inspire something in me. Walking around the neighborhoods, reading on park benches, running the lake path, and even enjoying patio season are now filling my itineraries so fast that I need to hire an assistant to keep track of them all. The sunshine has been generous and I’ve taken every chance to be outside. My big coats have been stowed away as the temperatures have been warm enough for just long-sleeve shirts or even plain t-shirts (be still my beating heart). Darren Korb composed all the music in this game, and the soundtrack is wonderful.Spring has finally come to stay in Chicago and I couldn’t happier. The P5 song "Zagreus" is named after the protagonist in this game, and if you've listened all the way to the end, you'll recognize the last 4 chords of the song are a nod to the motif that plays when you die – which happens a lot, so it gets burned into your brain pretty easily. This is one of my favorite games of the last 10 years, and the gameplay loop is so intoxicating that when you die, the first thing you feel like doing is just starting another run. It got so bad that during breaks from work, we'd all be on our Switches just silently binging run after run, not talking to each other. Here's a list of games we played throughout the recording of Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre, as well as games that directly inspired the music on our new record.ĭuring the P5 sessions, Spencer, Misha and I were completely hooked on Hades. Our affinity for it has only intensified as we've come along, as I've since gotten into voice-acting ( Disco Elysium, Hello Puppets: Midnight Show) and Misha has composed music for several releases ( Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Halo 2 Anniversary) over the years. Gaming even factors into Periphery's beginnings, as back when we all met in the mid-2000's, we bonded over 2 things: music and Final Fantasy. ![]() Whether we're on tour, in the studio, or at home, it is non-stop.
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