Starting with the classic occasional blogger observation : "I can't believe it's been *xamountoftime* since my last post!", I can't believe it's been two weeks since my last post!
I can't even blame it on it having been a particularly busy two weeks by any stretch of anyone's imagination...though both Diane and I are really excited by our new church and have been meeting up with our new friends pretty regularly.
Something else I have been doing far more this past fortnight than I have since wrapping up the recording of my former church's album late last year is getting deeply immersed in music : listening, writing, observing, learning, losing myself.
All the music projects I've had on the go for various lengths of time, from 2 weeks to 2 years, have been getting reviewed & evaluated as I've soaked myself in music spanning almost everything imaginable : Satie to Little Boots, The Beatles to Florence + the Machine, Elvis to Taio Cruz, stuff you've never heard of to more stuff you've never heard of. And yes, somewhere on that spectrum is plenty of music I don't particularly like, though it must be said that's not much as I'm a fairly eclectic music lover.
But I want, need to be challenged, stretched and extended in my musical experience. 'Cos lyrics about wearing all my favourite brands, brands, brands, brands will undoubtedly do that.
That kind of rhyming will come in handy though, since I'm planning on writing lots of children's songs - specifically Christian children's songs, something that I've been told I should do for most of my life and just never have - and by their very nature, kids' songs drive adults mad.
And being an adult, the 6 that I've written, co-written or part-written in the past 2 weeks are driving me mad already. They're not likely to make an appearance here or on my music page before you ask, though I do hope some of those other projects I mentioned earlier will get completed along the way.
Just had to share that with you; if nothing else, it helps keeps me accountable.
