Yes, this week my oldest enemies have
returned to me. I have started to persuade myself that I don't need
to do any thing useful, as long as I am relatively chirpy and have
enough free time to go out and have lovely fun times with my wife,
catch up with people in the pub, play a few gigs, go wandering with
the dog and sit around watching telly and drinking then everything
will be fine. I almost believed myself again. It's an age old attitude of mine, that if something is causing me stress and anxiety, I shall ignore it and hope it goes away. And generally, my creative endeavours do.
However, I remember it
was this attitude that meant the 5th Plastic Squirrel album took me 4
years to finish. And yes it was good and worth the wait, but had I
not spent so much time “waiting for inspiration to strike” it
would have been finished a lot quicker. Especially since inspiration
had bugger all to do with it, and I got most of it done in the last 3
months of working on it when I got sick of having not done it.
I have also started to think that if I left every single band I am involved in, and just played music at home and in the studio for fun, then I could get more work done, be happier, and spend more time with the family, a total win win. Except that I remembered I tend to be really very annoying, and quite miserable if I'm not in any bands. Mind you, the general attitude of "all other people who do music are rubbish, and disorganised slack twats" has also popped back up, and every gig I see advertised, and every song I hear on the radio had me tutting in disgust at how shite they all are these days. Again, the other Dave in the back of my head is kicking me and telling me not to be such a dick over such inconsequential bollocks. He is right, most of it's pretty good stuff. Though I am still tempted to quit playing with other people again.
So, has this launched me into a frenzy
of work you ask? No. No it hasn't. I was going to, but I needed to
learn a bunch of songs for a dep gig (I haven't done that either) and
I had a couple of rehearsals for proper bands as well. Then I bought
a new guitar, and spent far too much time playing it and thinking how
pretty it sounds. Am wanting to do that again right now in fact. But
I realised that I am already 3 days late in writing this blog entry.
Irony strikes again.
I had yesterday afternoon pencilled in
to do some proper writing, but then I had to go and do the shopping
so we could eat. And on the way home I noticed that the pub in town
which had been closed for ages had reopened, so I persuaded Netty to
pop down for one and see what it was like. Unfortunately it was
pretty good, so we didn't get home for a good 3 hours, and I was in
no state for writing by then, and had agreed to cook a marvellous
feast for our tea. Managed the cooking (only a bit burnt) but no work
done. Which was fine, I knew I had today free to do some anyway.
Enter a very long walk with the dog, quick visit to the car boot
sale, cleaning up the kitchen after some drunk twat had burnt all the
pans in there last night, popping down the road to catch up with some
friends, and a few cups of tea, and here we are. Half an hour away
from Top Gear and wine o'clock, and nothing doing (still haven't
learned those songs either).
Have some time off work this week so
might get something done, admittedly, I also have plans with the
wife, some friends coming down from london and a couple of gigs to
fit in. And that guitar is still new, and still sounds lovely. I
suspect that even this blog might get neglected. However, I will not
listen to me when I say that it's ok not to bother, and that another
year of getting nothing done is ok. Mind you, there's one more track
to finish for the next Plastic Squirrel EP, so that might get in the
way a bit as well. If only they'd stop putting programmes on the
telly, I might fit some stuff in of an evening. We can but hope,
particularly as my wife keeps asking me if I'm still writing that
book, and if she can have a read of it soon. I don't think Netty
reads this, otherwise she'd know the answer to that question.
Right, lets have a go at these songs
then.....
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