Jellofish

Tequila jello shots... 3 flavors: orange, lime and apple... apple was the best! G-man and I sat in the studio for a couple of hours working on some stuff... We were supposed to work on vox for NLOM, but I wasn't up to it. I've been working on the lyrics and melody for a month now and every time I try something it's all rubbish... I got to the point where I couldn't stand it anymore and I've decided to shelve it for the time being... I can't force it... you can't force that stuff. It's channeled or something... comes to you and until it does it won't work. Musically I like the song a lot... the chord progression, arrangement, a moving bridge and outro.

So, I've been listening to the new Radiohead album, In Rainbows, non-stop for the past week! Absolutely amazing! It's really moving... makes me want to chuck all my stuff in the garbage, throw my hands up and hang my head in shame... never touch another instrument again in my life... but at the same time it is such a breath of fresh air... inspiration... muse! I had to stop everything and just listen. Stuff started happening to me and all of these ideas were coming... now just to make sense of them and try and put them together...

Don't get any big ideas...

I spent a few hours in the studio last night trying to hammer out some new material. Tweaking knobs and buttons and whatnot. It's amazing the amount of time spent that results in absolute garbage... or so you think and then you come back to it a month or two later and you think "oh yeah, wow this is good stuff". Anyway I was doing all this stuff last night and had some decent stuff come out... then I really latched onto something... very moving and touching. The best part is that it is very simple and easy... no frills or massive complexity... just two notes. Brilliant! I played those two notes for like 30 minutes straight and just zoned out. It took me somewhere else and you can tell when you tap into that "thing"... It just moves you to another place.

Switch on. Switch Off

Found this today while browsing around on the Radiohead website. Not sure who the Vapour brothers are. Members of Radiohead? Jonny and Colin? Nice piece.