My my, it’s December now. Thirty one days left in 2007. Who is it that says years fly by? Why? This one has certainly been moving the speed of a gigantic glacier. At least to me. No matter how slow it goes for the rest of this month, or for that matter now matter how quick it goes, there is no doubt that I feel I’ve lost a year. Murphy’s Law. If it could go wrong, it did. Yet, somehow in the midst of all that went wrong, I still got crackin’ on some really good songs. Not to mention, I’m still going with Single of the Day. That’s no easy task sometimes.
Rain was the order of the day yesterday. The dopey thing in Los Angeles is that a little rain can really throw a wrench into things. A meeting got cancelled. A conference call got moved to another day. So I spent a little at home time. A phone call to a friend I haven’t spoken too in probably a year. An IM chat with another friend going through a real mess. It’s nutty.
When I did finally drag myself out of bed, I put my butt in the studio. What came out? Two more songs. Well at least the structure of them and the initial bones that still need to be fleshed out a bit. What I realized though is that I’m putting so much thought into the writing of a song now, that time suddenly has no meaning. I think creative types get into a zone while creating and don’t realize how much time has really ticked away. I started at 1 p.m. and ended at 11:30 p.m. That’s somewhere in the neighborhood of a ten hour session.
I finally had to break away as I found myself zoning so hard that I was almost falling asleep. Sometimes you’re working so hard on a new song that you drain yourself of energy. It’s a catch 22, you’re excited for what you’re doing, though at the same time you’re really burning the candle. I know when I have my head bobbing toward my chin and I’m spacing, that I’ve hit my limit for good creation and I have to stop. That’s losing track of time.
Knowing the time. That’s the subject of today’s jig. I don’t show much Jazz here, but I figured that this title really worked for my mood today. Attempting to come off some rest from creatively burning myself up. Wanna know what’s sad? I’ll be doing it again later today. Back to Bryan here. As I was putting the post together, I noticed that there’s an awful lot of people who’ve released similar titled songs. So either it’s a really popular title, or it’s a Jazz standard and I’m too ignorant to know who really wrote it. Maybe I ought to dig out my Real Book and see. Or maybe some witty person like yourself will set me straight.
Take a moment. Lose yourself in the piano. Drift along without a care in the world. That’s the vibe I’m pulling on this one. Or rather it’s pulling me. I’m sure Bryan would appreciate it. When I think of losing track of time in the future, this is the melody I’ll have boppin’ around in my head.