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FiftyFive ~ # 40
When I lived in London I was asked to play guitar for two girl singers and one of them, Faye, asked me round to her house to work on arrangements. We spent an afternoon working stuff out, and then regularly just generally writing material and getting a set together. On the first Sunday her dad came out of a room just off the hall and began using a carpet sweeper and generally tidying up. We chatted and I offered to make tea while he got on with the business of cleaning. He said he didn't want to leave it to his daughters because he didn't want them to grow up expecting to have to clean up after some man - and he hoped I would understand if I stuck around. Besides, he said, it helps me think... when I am coming to a part of a story I can't quite get right I dust and clean - that's funny I said, I cook. Me too he said then he held out his hand and said, I'm Jimmy, its better than calling me Mr Ballard - J.G as was, he was writing Empires of the Sun... sigh, I never met him again, Faye preferred an American guitarist who spent most of his time in NY. But what it taught me was that thinking and writing are often different exercises and sometimes the best thinking can be done away from the tools designed to help - such as the typewriter or computer. But still I look for something different and I found this - which I had never heard before, Empire of the Sun, hmm, making connections:
When I lived in London I was asked to play guitar for two girl singers and one of them, Faye, asked me round to her house to work on arrangements. We spent an afternoon working stuff out, and then regularly just generally writing material and getting a set together. On the first Sunday her dad came out of a room just off the hall and began using a carpet sweeper and generally tidying up. We chatted and I offered to make tea while he got on with the business of cleaning. He said he didn't want to leave it to his daughters because he didn't want them to grow up expecting to have to clean up after some man - and he hoped I would understand if I stuck around. Besides, he said, it helps me think... when I am coming to a part of a story I can't quite get right I dust and clean - that's funny I said, I cook. Me too he said then he held out his hand and said, I'm Jimmy, its better than calling me Mr Ballard - J.G as was, he was writing Empires of the Sun... sigh, I never met him again, Faye preferred an American guitarist who spent most of his time in NY. But what it taught me was that thinking and writing are often different exercises and sometimes the best thinking can be done away from the tools designed to help - such as the typewriter or computer. But still I look for something different and I found this - which I had never heard before, Empire of the Sun, hmm, making connections:
