Tuesday, 1 January 2013

Icarus dreaming # 1

There will be a show tonight
Beginning the year as a Sgt Pepper clone isn't such a bad thing I guess, at least it was a creative start. And that is the New Year Resolution. Every single day shall have a creative element to it, a real one, not just an incentive way of parking the car but something tangible, a songline, a strapline, a word or two, peppered here or there. And the year begins with me thinking about 'the narrative future of nostalgia' where the lines, 'I love the silhouette you see, as you picture me standing by the river/ last night I dreamed you dreamed of me...' came to me around a little tune I had been doodling with. I won't be sharing all of my doodlings here, of course but hey, happy new year. Now here is the scary thin, I started this blog at 55, next year I will be 60 though I have only been 58 for 18 days - go figure! Happy new year! This is one of my fave pop singers - and I will be watching this whole show some time today because it also has the wonderful Neil Finn and Janis Ian sharing songs: