Longer Than It Should

 I decided to put on some classical piano music while writing this blog post.  I thoroughly recommend Yiruma... if you feel so led you could put on 'The River Flows in You' while you read this. We are creatures of habit for sure.  Many of us especially so when it comes to the music we choose to listen to.  A local 80s radio station often jokes: "People who listen to the 80s have children who listen to the 80s!"  In my case it's the 70s... love me some Cat Stevens.   When I was a senior in high school and my brother was in sixth grade at the adjoining middle school, we would drive our jet black Volvo 850 station wagon the 1.1 miles to school... each day listening to one more track off of The Best of Cat Stevens.  As far as I can remember this pattern continued the entire year even though the Volvo had a six disk exchange system.  When I write music I don't intentionally try to get it stuck in your head... for whatever reason that's just how it usually turns

 Most things take time.  Songwriting is one of those things.  So is baking.  I'm not a baker, but this is an apt metaphor, so stick with me.   Timing is everything.  It doesn't matter so much at some stages of the process, but at other stages it is paramount...  You can let a song evolve in the rock-tumbler of your mind for as long as you want... but at some point, you have to put it through the oven of the recording studio.  If you don't, it will never be edible.  Of course, this metaphor breaks down because bread dough is edible... however, you don't want to eat too much of it.  (Actually, I'm not sure what normal bread dough tastes like... I'm only familiar with cinnamon roll dough).   Another metaphor is that of gluing things.  My middle school art teacher, Ms. Gilly Brown, taught me how to glue things the proper way: wipe the glue sparingly but thoroughly on the entirety of both surfaces... let it dry till it's pretty tacky, and only then join the two s

 Greetings friend, Just writing to say that I'm finally feeling productive again, at least a little bit.  I really feel this time that I might be, no, I am... close, ever so close to a tipping point.  The songs are all there, many of them even have decent recordings... perhaps the sheer quantity is actually a detriment to the best ones.  And people love the podcast... at least a few of them do.  And a few is a lot considering the listenership is still so low.  And so I'm setting out again on another medium: the blog.  I've done this before, but as usual it didn't get anywhere.  The difference may be the fact that I discovered that Google's hosts blogs... one has to assume that Google's hosting is better than Groove's. The point of the blog is to promote the entire Lightning Lucas ecosystem.  To glue it all together.  Things that may be included: bonus thoughts on the podcast episodes, new comedy bit ideas, old song lyric snippets that I dig up, and much more