This month has been a little murky.
A little head under feet.
I've been swimming in thoughts. Every once in a while I'll surface and gasp, "Aha!" only to promptly drop under again.
In his book, The Mind of the Artist: Personality and the Drive to Create (Fascinating! Recommend!), William Todd Schultz describes how the main feature of the artistic mind is openness. And a likely sub-feature of openness seems to be a propensity for boredom…
Read MoreThis little secret has been burning a hole in my pocket for over a year now.
I'm so excited I finally get to tell you!
I did indeed write a song for JOURNEY! Not only that, it is the FIRST SONG on their highly anticipated new double album!
Ending my East Coast retreat was daunting.
No matter the extent to which I got what I needed. No matter the extent to which I more than vaguely recalled my love for my life in California.
Over the past two years I've produced 8 albums, plus done a little moonlighting as a producing consultant on a handful of others.
It never occurred to me that I would produce. In part this is because I so revered my producers. Another part is that, as a to-the-bone songwriter, I experienced music as lyrics, melody, chords, form. For me, the SOUND of tracks was veneer. If there were violins, I didn't notice.
A few weeks in California of compounding obligations and 80% of people I love randomly in town at the same time left me deep fried. I've retreated to Maine once again for a hot minute.
Here the volume has turned down. And now gradually the more secret rhythms reveal themselves like stars.
You may have noticed a change in my tone the past half year or so. Of course I still call you my lovelies as per always. But maybe my writing to you is a bit more candid or reflective or geeky or poetic? Which is to say... a bit more me.
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