eureka! i know why i'm more creative in the winter time. it's because of bathing. i don't take any of them in summer and it's the time when i have fewer ideas i think. in japan i went to some hot springs and i remember having some good ideas while i was relaxing in beautiful mineral-enriched waters. i really love the hot springs in japan. i went to kinosaki which is a hot spring town and it was amazing. so, baths are my idea generators. this is tonight's conclusion which coincidentally was reached in a bath.
i feel sick though, i made it too hot :( my face looks like a beetroot.
i'm gigging on thursday. bit nervous, it's been a while. hopefully it'll be like riding a bike, but without the danger of ploughing into a double decker.
how long do you think it would take to learn to play the piano on a very basic level? have i asked this before? probably. i really want to learn piano to see what kind of songs i'd write. recently i've been writing songs, but a couple of them have been purely instrumental. maybe i've just not been that inspired to write lyrics. nah, at least two of them should definitely be music only. i've recorded one roughly on my computer and i really like it i have to say. it's very cinematic and moody. i have another few i've written that i'll put words too, once i stumble across some inspiration. where does it lie though? i realise in autumn and winter i write most of my songs. i'm like a squirrel with his nuts in autumn.
Its ability to plan for the future is what a squirrel is best known for. Every autumn, the gray squirrel spends its day gathering nuts and seeds. Then it hides them so it will have enough food to last through the winter. The squirrels hiding pattern is called scatter hoarding. The squirrel will bury its food in hundreds of different locations, that way if another squirrel or animal finds one, the rest will remain. The squirrel cleans each nut or seed before it is hidden, this leaves a scent which the squirrel can find later in the winter. Because of this scent, the squirrel can find its bury food even through a heavy blanket of snow.
Not all nuts or seeds are recovered, since a squirrel will save more food than it really needs. These nuts or seeds then grow into trees and a forest is grown. Squirrels are responsible for planting more trees, than all of mankind. maybe that last paragraph is superfluous to my analogy, but i like it. i hide songs all over the flat. some are stored in my mindisc, some on the pc, some on my video camera, some on my mp3 player, some in my cerebral cortex. usually i do this during autumn and into winter. i realise i hardly ever write much over the summer months. hopefully my songs will grow into another album, rather than a tree. like the squirrels i definitely save more songs than i need, but maybe one day these will be b-sides.
my headphones broke recently so suddenly i'm not listening to much music. that's not a good state of affairs. i've been flicking through myspace a bit in the evenings. right now i'm listening to sean lennon. before that it was tenniscoats from japan and after that, who knows. such is the randomness of myspace.
i've got a few schemes in my head (relating to making more music / video available), but none of them are fully thought-out or developed just yet. the album is going to take longer to get out there than i'd thought. that's always the way it seems sadly. i'm working hard to get it out. next couple of gigs are acoustic ones and i can't wait to get playing. i almost lost my voice last week coz of a nasty chest infection, but i'm feeling much better now thankfully. i've been a hermit though, spending most of my time around the flat storing my nuts.
sometimes in glasgow the sunsets look like none i've ever seen. the sky seems to glow and the clouds look both angry and happy. anyway, this was earlier today, maybe sometime between 6-7pm i think. i've had a great weekend with some finnish and japanese friends but i'm really tired now. i just wanted to share this photo before i crashed out. good night:)
