It's late. I should be in bed, but my mind is restless. You know that feeling you get the night before you go on a long-awaited trip, where you can't sleep because everything you're going to see and do is running through your head, in one of those long daydreams based on pre-conceived notions that never quite click with the eventual reality? That's what I feel like, but I have no trip coming up. I have nothing for my mind to run through excitedly. Instead, I keep going over the new songs I penned this weekend.
It was awesome to write some stuff, finally - I'd been blocked for months, sitting down to write or play and just walking away without a single note passing my lips. Talk about depressing. It was like my brain had run out of things to say...but it hadn't. Mental-emotional constipation....there's a disgusting metaphor for you. Anyway, we had a break this weekend, and spat out two complete songs and a bunch of lines and ideas, and I'm hopeful that this will bode well for continued writing. I hate not kicking out the jams.
And hell, maybe this is a harbinger of getting over the general slump that's been holding me underwater for awhile now.
In other news, I have recently come across a new pet peeve: people who use "would of" instead of "would have." I know, this seems like a no-brainer, but I've seen it six or seven times in the past week, and I want to throttle someone. It reminds me of that brain teaser with the paragraph where you have to count all the Fs, and three of them are hidden in the word "of" so that your brain sees them as Vs because that's the sound when you read the word aloud. I'm not sure where all this is going, but I guess my point is, it's "would have" and not "would of."
It's the end of the weekend, and I have John Mayer's "Comfortable," Ryan Adams' "Desire," and Jason Mraz's "Life is Wonderful" running around my head. Not to mention Clapton's "Running on Faith," which has been my theme song for years now.
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The Star: Hope, renewal, healing. The light at the end of the tunnel.
Knight of Swords: Mental/intellectual action. Moving forward with plans, ideas, communicaitons.
Two of Cups: Emotional exchange. An open sharing between equals.
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I pulled these at the end of the evening. Here's hoping.
Recent entries...
27 December 2007: 2007: Finis.
17 December 2007: A ruse, a rant, and a poem. It's short.
11 December 2007: Music & falling....story of my life.
08 December 2007: Briefly...ish.
29 November 2007: A poem, a rant, a lesson.