5 posts from September 2008

tired... at last

Sep 23, 2008
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Last night I finally felt tired and it was wonderful.

I've been having long days and nights with music over the last few weeks as I've been finishing a project and it has been really absorbing. I lost track of myself and my normal schedules and habits. That's the way with music sometimes and it's great, an intense experience, but when it's over it leaves you wasted. You know that feeling when you've been working so hard at something and have been completely absorbed by it? Pushing yourself towards the end and not thinking about anything except finishing it? You live by each day and take rest when you can, you don't stop at night and end up awake in the wee hours. Then you sleep later through the morning and get up and start again.

You know that difference between feeling exhausted and wired and feeling really tired? I finished the project and took two days off at the weekend doing nothing - I was exhausted and my body was an agitated mess, not used to taking time off. I couldn't sleep normally and couldn't sit still. I was edgy, rushing eating, not being able to read, feeling stressed for no reason. Finally after the buffer of those two days I started to feel really tired yesterday and able to release myself to it. It was strange but it felt so good, quite lush. I bumped into a friend on the high street and she said I looked so tired. I said "Yes, I feel tired at last and it's such a relief", smiling and knowing that I would finally be able to get a good night's sleep...

london weather summer 2008

Sep 19, 2008
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There are usually straightforward ways to describe the weather in London: dreary, wet, cold, cloudy. Sometimes in Summer we can use : sunny. This year it is even simpler: weird. Today I walked out of the house with a jumper feeling cold and seeing clouds, I came back overheated and with my eyes squinting from the sun, and this has been happening all summer (in reverse too and all sorts of combinations)... We haven't really had a summer, but we haven't had one season either. All these changes bring a really weird energy with them: inconsistency, moodiness, doom, glory all in two hours. Combine that with the recent full moon and I am feeling: weird.

the stillness again

Sep 15, 2008
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well i've been in bed with flu for a couple of days and enjoying the stillness once again. been working hard day and night on music recently and an all day outing to the rugby season opener at Twickenham fuelled by guinness and bad hot dogs finished me off (in the nicest way possible)...

this time while flat on my back i decided to watch all the films i could... Out Of Africa, The Newton Boys, Gorillas In The Mist, The Battle Of The River Plate, Blue Velvet, Little Fish and... How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days. Out Of Africa was the highlight, that is one deep, moving, beautiful film. I liked all of them and have missed being able to watch films....

over it now so it's back to writing... I need to develop and demo another 8 or so songs, on top of the 7 new ones I've demo'd already, and then I need to figure out the shape of it all and decide how to record and release them. It's good to feel such a strong vein of creativity...

Peace to you,

K

just heard the new AC/DC track on the radio in the car....

Sep 12, 2008
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..... today couldn't get any better... I am a happy man :)

trees

Sep 5, 2008
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I've been captivated by trees recently.... they are majestic entities.

tired... at last

london weather summer 2008

the stillness again

just heard the new AC/DC track on the radio in the car....

trees

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