backfire

. . . my resolution to be a handy blogger in 08, well, it didn't work out so much. So far! Things have been wild and wooly, but I'm finally getting new material finished up and offered up to the band. December was the time of new ideas getting started and not much finished. A lot of lyrical cloudiness, where I had an idea of what I wanted to say but a block in how to articulate it. For a while I thought I had kinda aged out of this or had just become more skilled at naturally coming up with flowing lyrics, but it actually seems to come in waves.

Waves of consciousness, actually, have been a recurrent theme lately. There is a lot of deep-seated heartache and anger. Simultaneously, a great amount of joy. I want to capture all of this. It helps to write like this. I've always been told that it helps keep the mind in order when otherwise things might unhinge my thinking. Perhaps this is true.

We're out on tour for a bit starting tomorrow. I love the freedom. Hard to hang out in bars for extended amounts of time and watch the progression of the night unfold at something of a distance. It's like an aquarium. Sometimes I can actually feel the water pressure, it's funny. Like the metaphor becomes surreal.