Ira Glass: On creativity

Creator/Producer of This American Life, Ira Glass gives some level headed insight into professional creativity. This video is actually from the online guerrilla filmaking guide at Current.tv.

Personal anecdote: one of the first forms my own website took included a page called the "Bit Bucket" where I hosted a handful of tracks I felt didn't "measure up." Eight years later, and that bucket's much more full.

Flying Backwards: Kid with drum machine

This really took me back. My first drum machine experience was a Roland drum machine, followed shortly by my own Alesis SR16. What a fun, albeit momentary, diversion.