Yup, it's still happening.
I had a little songwriting hiatus while I figured some things out, but I couldn't just leave the last four songs unwritten. That just wouldn't be fair and also, I want to write them.
Molly is someone I've met this year. She's younger than me, but a lot like me. So if anything, this song is advice I wish I had gotten. Whether or not it's advice she needs is another matter. After all, she already wears bows in her hair like it's no big deal.
But songs are more than something expected, that's what this whole experiment is about.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Oh my
Oh my what a week it has been. I stood in my last line or a UPass. I stood in my last line for books. I hit the Blarney Stone. I felt how beautiful and unpredictable and wonderful Vancouver, BC can be. Please, Vancouver, never let me go. I don't want to leave. I don't want to go. I want to stay forever and ever and ever and ever and ever.
Monday, January 3, 2011
"Stage Fright" (Rebecca)- CBSC #18
This song took awhile and I genuinely didn't think it would turn out this good. Toward the end of filming I started getting chills because this song sums up a lot of things.
Rebecca is an Opera singer. Actually she's a REALLY GOOD Opera singer. Last year I saw her perform in an opera called "Louis Riel" A soaring, atonal opera about Canadian History. It's even boring summed up in one sentence.
Here's the thing, I constantly make fun of it because it was my first opera and it was not what I hoped for (no funny glasses, no really old socialites, no Harpo Marx engaging in shenanigans). However, what I've never told Rebecca, and will say now on the blog no one reads, is that she was amazing. I was stunned, because all that year she sang back up to me at UCM.
The great thing is that when I first started leading on my own I was really scared, but there was something about an opera major behind me that gave me confidence. I could always hear her (not just singing, but talking too). So in a way I find something really very comforting about the sound of her voice. So I wrote this song about that.
Rebecca is an Opera singer. Actually she's a REALLY GOOD Opera singer. Last year I saw her perform in an opera called "Louis Riel" A soaring, atonal opera about Canadian History. It's even boring summed up in one sentence.
Here's the thing, I constantly make fun of it because it was my first opera and it was not what I hoped for (no funny glasses, no really old socialites, no Harpo Marx engaging in shenanigans). However, what I've never told Rebecca, and will say now on the blog no one reads, is that she was amazing. I was stunned, because all that year she sang back up to me at UCM.
The great thing is that when I first started leading on my own I was really scared, but there was something about an opera major behind me that gave me confidence. I could always hear her (not just singing, but talking too). So in a way I find something really very comforting about the sound of her voice. So I wrote this song about that.
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