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All finished with no way to post (for now)
So here I am at the library because my home internet seems to have disappeared. Having roommates sometimes means having no idea why things have gone awry. I'm hoping the internet thing will be sorted out in a day or two... Less would be nice.
So it's Thursday now, the last time I posted was late Sunday evening perhaps? Maybe Monday morning? What has happened in the interum? Well, Monday I let slip by. My triplet neice and nephews turned ten on Monday. I drove down to celebrate with them on Monday, came back to Cambridge to do an Open Mike, and then... it was Tuesday. I had grand plans for two songs on Tuesday, but by then end of the day I had revised that, I was going to finish the whole thing. Six songs. Something I had not really counted on why doing the month of writing songs everyday was the way that it would take over my life. I've been thinking about songs or songwriting almost 24/7 for the past three and a half weeks. By Tuesday evening I was done. But I still had six songs to finish. On the way home from "Milk" I started developing my plan. I would write the last six songs as quickly as possible. I would pick my subject and just go. I passed some train tracks, so train was one subject. The bells by the railroad crossing gave me a second subject. I never really write about love... everyone else seems to. Subject no. three. "Swimming Away" was already jotted down in my notebook I found at the subway station. Subject no four. I looked up into the sky at and saw the constellation Orion. "Orion's Belt" became no. five. Drinking, tried and true as a song subject and our assignment for next months songwriting group was no. six. I sat down in the Diesel Cafe when I got back to Davis Sq. to sketch my ideas out a bit. Then went home and slept. Eight hours of sleep is a nice thing. Yesterday afternoon I sat down and put the songs together. Lyrics, melody, recorded. Truth be told. They aren't quite in a place recording-wise where I would post them just yet. Assuming I get my internet back at home in the next day or two though, they will all be up and posted on Saturday. I may put up a couple of the intitial recordings too so you can get a sense of what that process looks like. Leave Comment: |











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