this song that arose from some muttered lyrics and some chords that i wrote while rendering those tree films has now migrated for the first time away from my fender rhodes onto T's piano... the chords are so, so sexy, it begs for a keyboard solo, i really want to keep my solos down to an absolute minimum for the vibe bar gig, ideally just one knock out solo for the whole set... leave them wanting more... and this tune could be the one...
i keep having more ideas for it and altering the basic pattern of it to accomodate, it's such a simple riff that it's based on, two chords that everyone and their dog has used in tunes, but where i go with it...
i was supposed to be at work today but a lack of communication (and also a certain black cloud that has coloured my week played a part in a negative way) meant that i slept in and spent much of my day on my own instead... which proved to be lovely...
once my boobelah had gone off to work (after the legendary breakfast) i took ages getting out of the house, spent awhile gazing at this here computer screen... got firefox 1.5 and greasemonkey which are slowly revolutionising my web life... actually a process i started last week swapping all my blog bookmarks with live bookmarks that tell me when that blogger has updated... (you could do the same with this blog if you use firefox... if you see one of these:
in either the bottom right hand corner of the browser or in the address bar, click on it), just beginning to use firefox in the mess around with it, make it do what you want it to do kind of way that i've been hearing about...for example i've got a userscript for greasemonkey that keeps the actual time when i'm posting... if you use blogger you'll be familiar with this, before, even if i spent an hour writing my post, the time of the post would still be whatever time it was when i started writing...
should you wish to follow me on this geeky journey you'll have to be using firefox 1.5, install greasemonkey and only then can you get that kookie little userscript...
anyway, geekness aside i finally made it out onto the streets to get a little something and i realised that i just wanted to keep on walking, so, with my shuffle in my ears and the light rain gradually dampening the hat, i strolled up the disused to crouchend, popped into prospero's books and bought a book of murakami short stories then retired to banner's cafe to drink tea, eat popcorn and read from the michael ondaatji book i'm still reading after what seems like months...
emerging a little later i got the 91 (kismet) bus back to here... ate the remains of the cake i got from waitrose yesterday and proceeded to work on that tune... which is where this posst started...
happy days..
x
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