TFG1MIKE 365 – 2024 Day 105 – “Good Creativity Comes On The Cusp Of Chaos!!”

Hello all and welcome to my continuing Daily Blog series from me TFG1Mike. This is TFG1MIKE 365!! And it The idea here is for me to write something, anything, once a day for 365 days. From January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024. It’s Day 105 features a discussion on how good creativity comes on the cusp of chaos!

When I’m in the deep end of creating something, I laser focus in on it, and don’t pay attention to anything else. The audio editing I did on our Top 100 Transformers Characters Countdown is a perfect example of this. If you’ve listened to any of my podcasts and the shows we do here at The GCRN since that countdown was completed, you’ll know that it took me 100 hours of work to get that 6 part series done. That project ended up being just shy of 12 hours of published audio! I was in the zone, and whyyyy?? You might ask, well because it was TRANSFORMERS!!!!!! The GCRN was built on our love of the TRANSFORMERS franchise! Even though I say it was “work” that isn’t a complaint at all. Every piece of assembling the 6 part podcast series was a fun thing to do for me. Now….

Let’s go back shall we… To January 23 of 2010! MWIRE/ Movie Week In Review the flagship movie discussion podcast here on The GCRN was in full swing, however planning for the podcast began right here in my DVD shelves back then:

These are all the movies and TV shows on DVD I owned back then, and it over anything else was what I used to pre plan and make the MWIRE schedule in the beginning. I think I had the first 100 episodes of the podcast thought out as far as what films we would cover. Now they might not all have made it into the first 100 episodes, but I am all about making road maps, and going from there.

The first 50 episodes were a fast list!

Episode 000: The Introduction
Episode 001: Back To The Future With Special TWIG Guest: Steve “Snowball” Saylor
Episode 002: The Naked Gun Films
Episode 003: Big Fat Liar
Episode 004: Die Hard With Special TWIG Guest Mike “The Birdman” Dodd
Episode 005: The National Treasure Films
Episode 006: Mission: Impossible Franchise
Episode 007: Super Troopers
Episode 008: xXx Franchise
Episode 009: The Bourne Franchise
Episode 010: The Marvel Spotlight: X-Men Franchise
Episode 011: The Marvel Spotlight: The Punisher
Episode 012: The Marvel Spotlight: Spider-Man Franchise
Episode 013: The Marvel Spotlight: Daredevil & Elektra
Episode 014: The Marvel Spotlight: The Hulk and The Incredible Hulk
Episode 015: The Marvel Spotlight: Iron Man
Episode 016: The Marvel Spotlight: The Fantastic Four Films
Episode 017: The Marvel Spotlight: Ghost Rider
Episode 018: The Marvel Spotlight: Nick Fury Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Episode 018.5 ToonCast/MWIRE Crossover: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Episode 019: Can’t Hardly Wait
Episode 020: Hackers
Episode 020.5: Space Jam
Episode 021: A Christmas Story
Episode 022: Jack Frost
Episode 023: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Episode 024: Dead Poets Society
Episode 025: The DC Spotlight Volume 1: Batman 1989
Episode 026: The DC Spotlight Volume 1: Batman Returns
Episode 027: The DC Spotlight Volume 1: Batman Forever
Episode 028: The DC Spotlight Volume 1: Batman And Robin
Episode 029: The DC Spotlight Volume 1: Batman Begins
Episode 030: The Dark Knight And Here’s The Holy Light Of Demon’s Dark Knight Song!
Episode 031: TMNT Films
Episode 032: Torque
Episode 033: A League Of Their Own
Episode 034: Serendipity
Episode 035: Little Big League
Episode 036: Walking Tall
Episode 037: Blast From The Past
Episode 038: Double O’ Kid
Episode 039: The Firm
Episode 040: Masters Of The Universe
Episode 041: Ace Ventura Films
Episode 042:The Mask
Episode 043: Good Morning Vietnan
Episode 044: Bicentennial Man
Episode 045: Men In Black Films
Episode 046: Empire Records
Episode 047: Half Past Dead
Episode 048: Jumanji
Episode 049: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Episode 050: Indiana Jones Films

Wow! I remember Steve and I would trade off suggestions, and I just wrote them all down! There were 50 more episodes as you may know, but we also did specials and stuff, so I’m not gonna list them all here! It was just crazy back then!

Ever since I was a kid in the 80s, I always had creativity in me. From playing with my action figures, to reading books, and more. I always had my imagination going and going like the Energizer Bunny! I’ve always been able to have my imagination at the forefront of my feelings. When I would read the Hardy Boys Casefiles novels, I would imagine myself as Joe Hardy, mainly because that character LOVED Bacon Cheeseburgers! When I was really little and I would read the Berenstain Bears books, I would always imagine myself as Brother…. Even though in real life I’m an only child. Because I was reading everything I could, I eventually had a dream of becoming a writer.

After all those years, I look back on 7-10 year old Mike between 1987 and 1990… and think, kid if you could see where we are now. Later this year I plan on writing an entry into TFG1Mike 365 all about how it’s been 30 years since I really started writing when I was 14 years old in 1994, but for now I’ll say that I have always been a person who’s creativity was always on overload. Sometimes I just didn’t know or have a place to implement that creativity.

Between writing and podcasting though, I’d say my creativity has had a good home all these years later. You’ll hear more about what drives our creativity between Steve/Megatron and I later in the month on GCR EP 336! For now though I have to run and get creative with more daily blogging!

What drives your creativity? Sound off in the comments below!

Join me tomorrow April 15, 2024 as I’ll be writing about something!