[xpressway2yrskull]

I suggest you just continue to listen to a good mix of experimental and mainstream music and try to be inspired by both. It's easy to get lost in making ambient soundscapes or whatever but it's much more fun to juxtapose melodies and freakouts, in my opinion.

Make sure you don't become to wrapped up in theory and end up losing the ability to create anything but rehashed variations on scales... like every guitarist in local bands round here.