Friday, November 30, 2012
Good morning Tampere
I'm tired as fuck, but have to get into our tourbus and head to Kuopio where we are playing tonight. Had rehearsals on Wednesday, and it was shitloads of fun. It's great to play with a lineup like this, I have high hopes for the evening!
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Stil working on the effin' lyrics.
It's all pretty much there, just polishing the shit up and trying to make it better. Tomorrow I'll go to Tampere to rehearse, should be sleeping already but there are deadlines to meet. Oh well, I guess I can still work on this on Thursday when I have some free time, I think the deadline is Friday. Remind me again why I agreed to do this?
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
About writing and drinking:
Here's some food for thought:
First of all, how I came to think about this: I was working on the lyrics I promised to write, with a deadline of 2 days. I've been drinking some whiskey and trying to get the words appear on the screen in a right order. At some point I posted on Facebook, saying something along the lines of "I'm not a poet, but thankfully there's whiskey". Later I started thinking that my mother is going to see that when she wakes up, her son was drunk at 03:30am on a monday night, drinking whiskey... She'll probably be proud... But here's the thing:
I really don't think anyone who has never had to try and write something, to create something out of nothing, can understand this fully. When I'm a bit intoxicated my mind works in a different way. I write most -probably all- of the music I write totally sober. I don't need any help with that, I hear the things in my head and that's it. But when it's time to write some lyrics it's a different story all together. I'm really not a poet nor a writer, although I have a decent command of the language (well, languages, both English and Finnish). I can get some ideas down sober as well, but to really let things flow and to let your mind associate things in a manner that is not that "natural" to you, it really helps to numb your brain down a bit with a substance of your choice, which in my case is alcohol. I don't really fully understand why it works, but it does, and I KNOW that I'm not the only one. You guys really think Samuel Coleridge was sober when he wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" or "Kubla Khan"? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to compare myself to him or any other well known author, just trying to make a point here.
But why the fuck do I bother actually. Bill said it all already and better than I could:
First of all, how I came to think about this: I was working on the lyrics I promised to write, with a deadline of 2 days. I've been drinking some whiskey and trying to get the words appear on the screen in a right order. At some point I posted on Facebook, saying something along the lines of "I'm not a poet, but thankfully there's whiskey". Later I started thinking that my mother is going to see that when she wakes up, her son was drunk at 03:30am on a monday night, drinking whiskey... She'll probably be proud... But here's the thing:
I really don't think anyone who has never had to try and write something, to create something out of nothing, can understand this fully. When I'm a bit intoxicated my mind works in a different way. I write most -probably all- of the music I write totally sober. I don't need any help with that, I hear the things in my head and that's it. But when it's time to write some lyrics it's a different story all together. I'm really not a poet nor a writer, although I have a decent command of the language (well, languages, both English and Finnish). I can get some ideas down sober as well, but to really let things flow and to let your mind associate things in a manner that is not that "natural" to you, it really helps to numb your brain down a bit with a substance of your choice, which in my case is alcohol. I don't really fully understand why it works, but it does, and I KNOW that I'm not the only one. You guys really think Samuel Coleridge was sober when he wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" or "Kubla Khan"? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to compare myself to him or any other well known author, just trying to make a point here.
But why the fuck do I bother actually. Bill said it all already and better than I could:
Aaaand
...I finished the first version of the lyrics. Now I'll have a smoke and a drink and wait for some comments from the producer, in case there's something we need to change. Whiskey always does the trick! :)
Monday, November 26, 2012
So fucking tired...
Got hardly any sleep last night, slept maybe an hour or so and I have definitely been feeling it today. No rest for the wicked though, I'll have to continue working on those lyrics now. Surprisingly enough I got something done already last night, while sober (!). Today I've been feeling so crappy I decided to play it safe and went to buy some whiskey, just to be sure that I can actually finish and polish those lyrics tonight. Haven't had any yet though, but I'm guessing soon is the time to bathe my wretched soul in a soothing stream of liquid creativity.
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