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When this is the scenery, it's not such a bad day

I'm still listening to new guide tracks whilst I type. I frickin love this new song.

Ok. so maybe we had a good day and I'm bouncy. I'll go with that.

What a combo. Glorious weather and a whole bunch of very mellow people. I had some great conversations about music with Jim, Paul and Steve.

Rebecca had the on stage sound going well and we benefited from recent development work on the new songs.

Cheers to Harvs, Jo (she shifts her shifts to be there, cheers Jo) and all the folks who ventured all the way from the Front Bar to the Back Bar :-)

Some days you just appreciate the sunshine and a chance to roadtest new songs.

We'll be bringing in a few more by the next show this week in Newtown.

Aah.

So relaxed.

Howdy Folks.

I'm listening to another guide track as a write this, and it's a very nicely formed early draft.

We've gone on a Tom Petty trip for this track and its working title is 'Pretty Petty' in homage.

In keeping with the valley theme, the lyrics are straightforward, if not a little influenced by the excellent Prog work of our mate Terry Lyndon (PS Mr Wizard says Terry's remastered album is amazing).

The boys working last night

Once again I took a moment to happily wonder at another song that was different, out of the box and surprising. How rare and fragile a thing.

The work continues, and that's enough.

Sadly they wont let me play it tomorrow Mr Wizard says I'm just excited by a new shiny thing. He's right. Oh well.

As any sentient being within 3 billion light years knows, Sydney is in the middle of a housing market frenzy the likes we haven't seen since someone threw a bucket of chum into a tankful of Great White Sharks.

We got doorknocked on Saturday by a very smiley real estate dude and this morning, whilst working on some rather Naff lyrics for a song for Danny Cox, I received a rather too well informed caller who knew my name, various details and proceeded to invite me into a discussion about selling houses, as hadn't I heard about the riches to be made on my street.

Ok, so here's my thing. This song for Danny is risky. It's got a good sentiment but is in severe danger of going Beyond Cheesy. I mean, we'll take risks, sure, but this stuff is tough. Just the right side of cheese/heartfelt sentiment and we have a passionate, well thought out song with anthemic potential OR OMFG WTF hahahaha.....
As Mark Twain once said, the right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug. If I take this risky song to the boys before I have tweaked it Just Right I may be met with Hoots Of Laughter and therefore FLOP. Back to drawing board.

So, I sit here, deleting line after line, re writing, scratching my head, no, too sugary, so, bad rhyme, no OMG what was I thinking, no that word...hang on...hang on...what if I...could it...yes...it might.. I might just...

RING RING 'Hello, MJEB? This is EXPLETIVE from EXPLETIVE DELETED reaI estate I just called to talk to you about...'

I will admit, if he had a better line for the song than I did I woulda accepted the intrusion, but Sell Sell Sell didn't rhyme :-)

I'm not sure whether to thank him or cuss :-)

How the year passes swiftly. A winters day at the Catho. We love playing the Catho.

1pm

Just posted this to facebook because:

Stormcellar would like to acknowledge the bravery of S. sharing her transition to R. I can only imagine how brave you have to be to accept who you truly are. Ok, completely inappropriate joke here, but that takes Cojones. Hey don't judge me I'm still processing this..

Those that know and love me know I have my own share of stuff to deal with, that being the case, it gives me a certain connection to those who feel a little alien in their own world.

Like any Western Socialised Hetero Identifying Product of the 20th Century, I find some changes are still a little daunting. 

However, this isn't one of them.

I must admit I am a little 'caitlin'd out, being a bit of a media chewer, but I understood how important it is to have a hero, a pioneer.

Sydney's always been a bit of a Rainbow city. We have loved ones from all over the spectrum so it's never seemed altogether unusual.

What I am finding unusual is the amount of acceptance.

Am I overly optimistic or are people starting to be a little nicer? More accepting? I'd like to think so.

Most important, welcome Rebecca. We've always liked you for who you are and you can choose any externalisation of yourself that feels right without any concern that we'd think differently of you. We're your friends in the Stormcellar.