"Dear God I'm writing this letter to you
'Cause I don't have a clue, can you help me?
I'm sitting here, simply trying to figure out
What my life's all about, can you help me?
I never wanted to be the person You see
Can you tell me who I am?
I always wanted to die but You kept me alive
Can You tell me who I am?"
- Song "Letter To God" written by Linda Perry
So by the end of 2011 I was still homeless and broke, eating at soup kitchens but it was a lot different to 12 months before. I was a different person. I was re-inventing. I was creating. I was doing what I wanted and knew that in time I would be where I wanted to be. La Chateau Tento was still a tent but now it was my creative palace. My THINK tank. I was beginning to create stuff that i had no intention of creating, like the book, like the poems and now, can you believe it, a song. A good song with meaningful lyrics. But what was I to do with it. No musical background, no musical contacts, no network of people, no previous work experience to draw on. Hmmmmm...........
But you know what dot? It was coooool because I was beginning to understand the ME that I had become. I had 'knowledged up' with reading and research. I wasn't a scaaaardy cat in a tent cowering from the elements. I was aware of who I was and what was happening to me since the re-invention. I knew to let it take me............
But you know what dot? It was coooool because I was beginning to understand the ME that I had become. I had 'knowledged up' with reading and research. I wasn't a scaaaardy cat in a tent cowering from the elements. I was aware of who I was and what was happening to me since the re-invention. I knew to let it take me............
I was writing my autofuturebiography. I was writing my STORY backwards. It was all new stuff. No more Corporate handcuffs. Not locked into 'normality'. Of course there is a price you have to pay for that and I was paying. But it didn't matter. My choice. I was prepared to do a little suffering to get to where I wanted. And so I let the journey take me. I still couldn't work out what the hell I was going to do with a song. I just didn't have the experience. But then the strangest thing. I started writing another song. Aaaarrrggghhh.......
Almost the same circumstances as the first time with 'Broken Man'. Walking along the beach to get a free feed from Rosies. In a pensive mood I started thinking about what I was doing in my new world. I smiled. Then laughed as I thought of the enormity of the task ahead of me. I called out "NUTS". That's what you are. Nuts. And then I began to think up a song appropriate to the title. By the time I got back to camp that night I had half the song complete. And you know what dot, I was enjoying it. The creativity was making me happier than I had been in a long time.
'Broken Man' was a bit heavy but it expressed my inner feelings when I wrote it. With "Nuts" I was feeling a little better in myself and that is reflected in the song. It is a light hearted look at myself. A bit 'eggs agerated' but it is a good fun song which should get the audience involved. So after probably another two months I had completed my second song. They really are both good songs. I carried out a NEEDSEARCH on each of them and the structure and beat in both are what I am sure will be easy listening for the public.
Almost the same circumstances as the first time with 'Broken Man'. Walking along the beach to get a free feed from Rosies. In a pensive mood I started thinking about what I was doing in my new world. I smiled. Then laughed as I thought of the enormity of the task ahead of me. I called out "NUTS". That's what you are. Nuts. And then I began to think up a song appropriate to the title. By the time I got back to camp that night I had half the song complete. And you know what dot, I was enjoying it. The creativity was making me happier than I had been in a long time.
'Broken Man' was a bit heavy but it expressed my inner feelings when I wrote it. With "Nuts" I was feeling a little better in myself and that is reflected in the song. It is a light hearted look at myself. A bit 'eggs agerated' but it is a good fun song which should get the audience involved. So after probably another two months I had completed my second song. They really are both good songs. I carried out a NEEDSEARCH on each of them and the structure and beat in both are what I am sure will be easy listening for the public.
... a white dove for love.....
So now I had two songs ready to go. I just didn't know what to do with them. As you may have already guessed the songwriting didn't stop there. When my 'Bob Dylan ghost' tells me I write another and so far I have written enough for an album. Crazzeeee huh? There are two songs that I will use for thetelevision show that will be coming. I have already approached our local Mayor to support a beach concert where I interact with kids and have them help me produce one of the songs I call "Nursery Rhymes". I blogged about it a couple of months ago. Now no normal "sane" person would get up in front of a crowd of people and media if he wasn't confident in the content, would he? Hmmmmmm......
Anyway I have approached a television network who will run a 4 part series and include in that a 'live' concert and the finale will be all about the main song I have written called "BE IN ME". It will go Number 1. Really dot. Dot stop laughing like that. Pleeease dot get up off the floor and clean yourself up!
Anyway I am looking at a couple of other options but in the meantime I will soon begin uploading some YouTube videos and one of them will be a clip featuring my song "NUTS". Then you can have a real good laugh!
Don't forget, ALL of this stuff is just content for the STORY, fuel for the fire, a STEP on my journey. But now the whole shebang is staarting to rev up. Hmmmm........
Anyway I have approached a television network who will run a 4 part series and include in that a 'live' concert and the finale will be all about the main song I have written called "BE IN ME". It will go Number 1. Really dot. Dot stop laughing like that. Pleeease dot get up off the floor and clean yourself up!
Anyway I am looking at a couple of other options but in the meantime I will soon begin uploading some YouTube videos and one of them will be a clip featuring my song "NUTS". Then you can have a real good laugh!
Don't forget, ALL of this stuff is just content for the STORY, fuel for the fire, a STEP on my journey. But now the whole shebang is staarting to rev up. Hmmmm........
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