For while now, I haven't written any music. Not a bean. Not even a one line ditty to be stored away under some suitably irrelevant name, and referenced at some point in the distant future. Nothing.
Sure, I've done music. PeopleAreThings are currently recording an album ( please, download 'Games'. For me) - we've been 'currently' recording an album for nearly 2 years now - and I've done bits and pieces for the Hot Donkey boys, including a couple of remixes. But I haven't sat down and actually concentrated on writing something, from scratch, and finishing it off to a state that I'm happy with. It just hasn't happened.
This disturbs me on a number of levels. I've always been able to sit down for a few minutes, record something I'm happy with, and use it as the basis for something bigger, even if I'm not able to progress the idea further at that moment in time.
It's not like I don't have the time. I have plenty of time. I get into work at about 0830hrs, and I'm usually done by 1730hrs on most days. This means I have a good 4 or 5 usable hours before I have to start the whole cycle all over again.
No, the thing that scares me the most is that for a while now, I just haven't been excited by anything I've written. I've sat down, tried things out, shrugged my shoulders and gone and done something else. I took a brief foray into piano-based songs, rather than guitars, and that worked well for a little bit. But now I need something new to keep me occupied.
I just have no idea what it's going to be.
Oh, and P.s. Shameless Plug
