Day 366 | Wednesday, December 29 | 2010

Writing...

Day 261 | Tuesday, September 15 | 2009

Another Sunny Day...

I tried working on a couple new songs last night and they sound alright. I am still doing the thing where I write the music and melody but am completely nonplussed for lyrical ideas. I want to write too much -- more than I am able to it seems. Nothing is ever good enough.

Día 116 | Sábado, 25 de Abril | 2009

Jardín...

It's been another lazy Saturday in which I was not able to get anything done.  Today I had just sat around most of the time playing guitar and writing melodies.  I noticed today that I have written about thirty songs this year.  Out of these thirty or so songs, I haven't written any lyrics.  I have a lot of ideas about the songs but nothing seems to serve the songs.  I am glad that my host family has supplied me a guitar that I can play while I am here...it has made me realize that music is something that I cannot walk away from.  Depending on when I decide to write, maybe I'll play some shows sometime soon after all.  

The day wasn't totally spent in vain.  I got some progress done on planning out my analysis for a short story I am reading called El arrepentido.  The story is only about 200 lines and is about an old man named Tomeu and his nephew Ruti.  Tomeu is the owner of a cheap coffee shop near the beach but feels great regret about his past.  The truth is that Tomeu has made all of his money in illegal contraband negotiations -- a regret so strong that it leads him to commit suicide by the end of the story.  There are a lot of other levels to the story, though.  Ruti, the nephew of Tomeu has corrupt motivations when it comes to inheriting Tomeu's dirty money.  Ruti wants the money so bad that he lies to Tomeu by telling his uncle that he only has 1 month to live (Ruti is a doctor).  By telling him this, Ruti knows that Tomeu wouldn't be able to stand to live knowing he only had limited time to live, he would then commit suicide, and then Ruti would be able to inherit Tomeu's fortune.  Ruti's plan goes awry by the end, though, because of Tomeu's tremendous guilt about his corrupt past, Tomeu decides to leave all of his money to children at a homeless shelter.

It is a long short story.

Thanks for reading everyone.  Especially, thank you Michael for keeping up with me.  I hope everything is going well for you and Becca!  Tell Becca I say hello sometime.  We will have to get together sometime soon.  I hope your trip to Colombia goes well too.  When do you go?  What part of Colombia are you going to?  I'd love to hear more about it.

Day 55 | Monday, February 23 | 2009

Pedestrian in Alley...

Kinda busy day.  For a moment today I had serious thoughts about cutting my hair.  But then I realized I am going to keep it going.

I have been writing a lot of melodies lately.  This is good because hopefully now I will start to write lyrics.  I want my next work to be one that is more disciplined and focused lyrically.  I think that Nostra Nova was focused enough but was not tightened.  It is important to have the lyrics say something.  I felt like there were some moments on Nostra Nova in which the lyrics said something but I feel that, in general, I did not really know what I was doing.  I feel like I am intellectually, emotionally, and personally light years away from where I was during the writing process for my last album, so this time around it would serve the situation best to really examine the context of the writing content, form, and how it relates to my formulations.

Regardless, I am excited about the writing process and I hope that it turns out well.

Day 19 | Monday, January 19 | 2009

Royal...

Today I have been thinking about music and song writing.  Whenever I think about these things it makes me feel overwhelmed.  I used to write songs and music pretty easily but in the past couple of years it seems to be more complicated.  

It has been a pretty good day over all.  I have not gotten very much done but I think every thing will be okay.

I don't feel like writing very much today.  There is snow outside.