Leap of faith, get away from the noise

I need to write a little closer to daily, but I think what I've written so far has already helped me stay on track. It's a sort of "leap of faith" that I'm setting out to systematically make this short animated film and break me out of my rut (of just being a musican that can't manage to hold people's attention over all the noise, more on that below) -- faith in the sense that I have to put in a good stretch of unacknowledged work, stay on a single project (don't jump around), and basically be in isolation, i.e. no feedback until I'm much much further along and have something impressive to show off. I'm kind of seeing it as going into a long tunnel. But I feel good about it.

I went to House of Guitars today for new bass strings just for Slab. Yeah, I decided to go all out on this remix, cough up the $20 and not just boil my old strings in water a fourth or fifth time. It's kind of funny, at HoG there is a large cinderblock wall covered end-to-end and top-to-bottom with autographs. A sign in front of it says:

WALL OF ROCK STAR AUTOGRAPHS
DO NOT WRITE ON THIS WALL

I know enough about Aristotelean logic to know that translates into "YOU ARE NOT A ROCK STAR". And I kind of feel like screaming at everybody there, of course you're not a rock star, you're in a sea of noise where no one can hear you. Look at all this noise ... you're putting your flyers up on walls covered with flyers for other bands, putting your CDs in stores where there are thousands of other CDs, submitting them to record companies that get thousands of demos a day, putting your band's website on an internet with millions of other bands ... that's called noise, don't you get it? If you want to make a dent in the world, you have to get away from the noise.