June 22, 2022
All the flowers were in bloom. They were on the side of a hill. It smelled like soil. The sky was blue and the sun was just a yellow cartoon, vibrating in the air. I felt like it was very close.
The pond below was shimmering. There was a Being by the water! For some reason I couldn’t tell if it was one or three beings!
I looked around. Somewhere else was an old wooden windmill.
Beside me was something. I could feel it. Nothing to see though.
On the deck of a spaceship. How is there gravity here?
How is there light? I don’t see any bulbs.
The sun shone through a canopy of leaves. It sparkled against the forest floor. A miniature scene was unfolding. There were a three explorers from London. They were looking for dinosaur fossils.
There was a big rock next to them. There was a yellow tiger on the rock, licking its paws. Everything was very tiny. The trees were normal sized, but everything else was shrunken.
A train was coming through the trees. It was guided by floating rails. The smoke that came out the top of the train was sparkling. The train was making a fun chugging sound. It was like a train from a different dimension. On board were vegetables from other planets. The train was delivering them to a community of people who lived by the ocean.
The sun was settling back in London.
A big hole was in the ground. A rocket ship had flown off course and crashed. It shot through the sky and smashed into the ground. All the buildings nearby were on fire. The people had screamed and a few had been hit by cars in the mad rush to escape. There was a lot of smeared blood.
Their souls would be ok. They were floating above watching. A few of them didn’t understand what had happened. It had all been so weird. They figured it was all a dream. They were floating above the wreckage, waiting to wake up.
I like having a plan going into things.
I’ve learned a bit about this kinda thing from the writing class at U of T.
We have to write a a focus statement. This is like the North Star for the rest of the writing.
I want to do something similar with music, whenever I sit down to record. I’ve decided to break the sessions down. I’ll try and sit for about 40 minutes a day. The goal is not to finish whole songs. It will be smaller things, like figure out a bass line for this particular verse, or, what experiment with different strumming patterns for this chorus.
It should all be experimenting and playing. It should be very long.
Music Focus:
Lead Guitar for ‘On My Own’ First Verse and Second Verse.
How does the lead guitar build up from one verse to the next?