you're a fucking wasp, man, butterflies don't sting

[deathboy]

I've got nice and far into a remix for Voices of Masada, which I was finding it hard to stick my head into. They are, and have always been trad-as-you-like, so not necessarily the most instantly compatible music you might imagine for The DeathBoy. But, for dirty doiley-wielders, they have some really good songs, serious ear-worms, which is very much all it's ever about.

I've been working on a remix of "Walk Away" by them, and I think it's going somewhere good.

Raymon may fucking hate it tomorrow, this is the risk we take. :)

So many tiny problems solved. I do declare that I'm getting my hate back.

I've found it terribly hard to write music over the last six months because I was, for the first time in my life, happy. Content.

I am pleased to announce that this has ceased to be the case.

Normal service will be resumed momentarily.

Comments

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

I hope being able to write music again doesn't mean you're no longer happy! You sound, in reality, genuinely happy for the first time, perhaps, since I've known you.

I know what you mean about finding hard to write when you're happy, though, I seem to find it easier to write when I'm slightly miserable. Well, ok, perhaps not miserable-miserable for real, actually; when you are truly depressed it is also very difficult to write anything that you don't hate the day after.

[jaketherat.livejournal.com]

I disagree, I can only write comic songs if I'm anything other than abjectly miserable. When I'm happy, writing sad or even just emotionally frank songs seems self-indulgent. Maybe I only have an ego when miserable!