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There are concepts I find deeply troubling. Love. Trust. Balance. Beer. It is not something that grabs me by the hair if you know what I mean, beer that is. I have prattled on and on about love, trust and balance. And suddenly I realised the opinions of my family never once troubled me. Allow […]
Notebooks help with everything. I jot down words, phrases and dirty jokes I don’t want to forget. When writing music I haul out all my notebooks and locate a phrase that fits perfectly. Yet, at 3am an idea popped into my head, an idea that’s not in any of my notebooks… Ask any creative and […]
I was gonna start this blog post with the lines, ‘Dear Ben …I keep making the same mistakes…’ and then thought no. Granted, we all have one person in our head we speak to. Or one person we think of when upset, tired or slightly sozzed…. I am becoming sloppy on all fronts. I have […]
Everyone knows that I only ever freak out about two things, (aside from family drama), getting lost while driving and when cooking. Thank goodness for whoever invented the GPS or I would have maps of every place in my car, filled with snapshots and notes to supplement it. I recall, (and don’t judge me for […]
Here’s the problem with having deeply intuitive people as friends…they always let something slip. To be fair, even if they didn’t, my dreams would alert me that something, somewhere is about to change. Over the last few days I have been shown signs of the next person entering my life. Small things like…his nationality and […]
Just some random thoughts and phrases. Some will become songs or not. * I was once just like you. Yes, you…the one who is drowning in the camp chair as bad music soils your clothing. You can barely sit still for long, can you? There you go again, walking, smoking, looking over your shoulder. You […]
This time of year use to be hard for many years. Now, I am in such a great place in my life. In fact, I am for all intents and purposes rather content and happy dammit! I like the one saying I overheard about life being a reflection of who you are or are not…. […]
You’ve heard it all before. This life is just an illusion, a glorious game where we forgot the rules, the players who agreed to join us and the lessons we came to learn. Lessons, we can’t even begin to fathom. And every game, every movie…must have a hero and a villain surely? Or else what […]
It was once said that without music life would be pointless. Then again, it was also said that if you want to change the world, your world, it is best you do so one person at a time. For the last two days I was part of a songwriting and mentorship workshop in conjunction with […]
This is what every musician or songwriter thinks. Or perhaps it’s just me. I sat outside, stared at the open blue sky, felt the warm wind on my skin and wondered about love and music. My mind was lost for a while in a musical reverie. Do you wonder, I thought, about the music I […]