perverse and meaningless

I'm unsure. I have no feedback from which to judge my progress as a songwriter. I think I am not so good, mainly because I never think that I use my brain as I much as I could when constructing words. I think I get lazy. Writing a song isn't an inherently pro-active process. One can write a song without even thinking (or writing) sometimes. The difference between a song that people can relate to, feel a connection with, or find interesting and a song that is ho-hum is, perhaps, the amount of brainpower one puts into it (if the talent exists to write a good song).

Wait. Talent? What is that? It is merely a result of hard work and timing. In almost every detail I agree with Malcolm Gladwell, author of the well-received book Outliers. Though I am an advocate of his theories, I am a bit forlorn by them; I feel I don't have the spark to put me over the edge of mediocrity.

Noggin gymnastics require constant stretching! I need more pressure to stretch.

I think I have the ability. I really do. I wonder if I have the concentration. I think I settle too easily.

Contrarily, some of the best stuff I have ever sang, thought of, or felt has been free-styled. It might be that my brain waves are on overdrive, a sort of unbound freedom, in those situations. God needs a tape recorder. The next morning we can awake and revisit those situations. Watching yourself without inhibition is one of the wildest things you can do. Watching others positively react to an uninhibited you can blow your mind. It can change your life. Why do minds sometimes open up? I want to bottle my most confident moments, and then concentrate it for future use.

Anyway, songs are funny creatures. They help one navigate the seas of one's topsy-turvy mind, but if one wants the navigation to complete itself, one needs the confidence to advertise one's feelings, insecurities, and personality.

We all need to connect 1 to 8 sometimes, and forget about 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Sunfish Lady

Bright Sunfish lady
You breathe in a different way
In a different way
Bright sunfish lady
You breathe in a different way
Gills on your face
Bright sunfish baby
You breathe in a different way
From me

Why don’t you teach me?
To breathe your way
Breathe your way
Why don’t you teach me?
To breathe your way
I’d get an A
Why don’t you teach me?
To breathe your way
Lady please

We can school together
And not separate
Separate
We can school together
And not separate
Its most safe

Oh, baby please
Don’t (Swim Away)
You know I can’t (Go Too Deep)
Without Surfac(ing to Breathe)

Bright Sunfish lady
You breathe in a different way
In a different way
Bright Sunfish lady
You breathe in a different way
Different way

CHORUS

Bright Sunfish lady
If I can learn to breathe
At least sporadically
You’ll like me, I think
Even when I can’t breathe
Baby next to you I can’t breathe
Bright Sunfish baby

This song exists because I like the word sunfish. Rahfish. Rawfish. Sun Rah Fish. Fishin' for Sun Rah...

Helsinki and a Word

	Architecture in Helsinki - Like It Or Not (Version 2)
	Found at skreemr.com

More songs written! More coming soon! Please have patience! Who am I speaking to!

Dusty Plains' List (Apostrophe after S)

My songs to date, in no particular order:

1) "Your Song"
2) "Don't Know Much 'Bout No"
3) "Karma Knows"
4) "Cactus Knee"
5) "My Gallant Gov'na"
6) "Without You"
7) "Maya, My Asafoetida Senorita"
8) "The Thimble & The Thumb"

Each one is still a work in progress. In the sense that everything is always in progress. With my improvement as a guitarist, these songs get new little ditties here and there. I also often think of something better lyrically when I revisit the words. That being as it may, I would like to start this blog out by doing an entry for each of these songs one by one as they are now. I want to put my thoughts about these songs down...though at the risk of eliminating others' potential for different interpretations of the song.
However, because I know almost nobody will ever hear these songs, and that almost nobody will ever read these words, I feel that risk is more minimal than Zaphod Beeblebrox's importance in the universe.

That is the mission for now. Peace.