The DJ Rollie D Story

Every so often I'll go somewhere out here that I haven't been in a long time, or in my travels I'll run into a person that I haven't seen in a considerable amount of time except in passing.  There's usually not a specific reason as to why I haven't gone to these places or ran into these people, rather one or both of us have simply been busy beyond measure and haven't had time to contact each other or take time out to spend time with each other.  The human interaction component is missing so to speak, and so it goes for a while that we don't see each other or I don't frequent that location. The words that most often get uttered during these meetups with folks I haven't seen in some time is the phrase "So good to see you."  I always feel good when I hear that phrase because it makes me feel like I'm not just a distant after thought in the lives of those I know.  It lets me know that I have purpose and that I am cared about and/...

Do you ever just take a second to let your creative spark fly?  I'm not talking about fully separated from surroundings day dreaming, but do you ever just sit down at the computer, the canvas, or in front of an instrument, and just let your ideas come to fruition in front of you?  Do your designs tend to fall flat on the paper, or are they everything you expected them to be, maybe even more?  Did you end up with a finished product that you didn't expect to have when you began? I am fully against the stifling of an individual's creativity.  I find that too often we tend to get stuck in the same rut doing the same things over and over again, almost as if our artwork is coming off the assembly line at a factory or if it's regular day to day process like at your job.  We've settled into a molded routine, and it's hard to break out from it and do something new fun and exciting.  As artists, musicians, authors, and even gamers, we must let our creative jui...

Valentine's Day is upon us, and that means a lot of people will be taking their significant others out to a bar, local restaurant, or whatever movie is hot at the theatre right now as a way of showing them how much they love that person.  There'll be fancy gifts, chocolate and flowers, and awkward shoutouts on radio shows, all for the people we love or the crushes we think like us back, though that exercise in thought is usually futile and usually doesn't produce anything besides wasted time and a heavy broken heart. However, not everyone is deeply in love with someone this Valentine's Day, and that segment of the population includes me amongst other people.  Today, I'm sitting in my room (it's too cold to go outside) and chatting with a few friends while also planning to maybe watch the new Big Mouth double episode "My Furry Valentine" a little later on while ordering pizza in and finishing off the pasta I cooked for last night's episode of...

People frequently ask me "Where do you see yourself in five years?" or "Where would you like to move after college?"  Most times, the best I can muster is a simple "I don't know" because I really don't.  The world is full of so many amazing places and locations, with scenery for miles or people who seem to be the friendliest you ever met, at least at the outset.  All of these places I've visited in my lifetime seem to be great candidates to return to, but there's always more to the equation. For those of you who don't know, I deal with occasional bouts of homesickness.  They're never powerful enough to make me unable to function or anything like that, but I tend to remember some of the best memories and people from my time at home, and then I start to get a little sad because I feel like they're gone forever, even though in all reality I can visit them whenever I want to, and I have visited people from my past several tim...