This flight’s gone by pretty fast, considering it’s eight hours. My eyes have felt achey – you know when you’re tired but you can’t sleep – so I haven’t had enough will to read or do anything too exciting. I watched episode 4 of FlashForward, about to watch episode 5. Dominic Monaghan’s just appeared. That’s exciting. Listened to some old episodes of the Ricky Gervais podcast. Charlie’s been watching stuff on the in-flight system. Tom fell asleep watching Up. Claire’s been reading The Time Traveller’s Wife, if you’re interested in what she’s up to. I had beef for lunch, and a choc-ice, and this is the most boring entry I’ve ever written.
The reason for the update is that I also started thinking about The World Is Mine, and coming up with ideas for the direction I want the music and the songs to go in. I want it to have a kind of duality, like the title – like the music is trying to mask my true feelings but they keep slipping out, and it’s this constant battle. Together Tonight (which at the moment is the first track) is half slow and half speedy so that works nicely. I also renamed I Love You to Stay With Me, which is a little less cheesy (I thought about calling it ‘Funhead’, but I just couldn’t do it). I also played around a little with the track order and the ideas behind the songs, and what I’m trying to convey with each, and how the music can help tell the story, something Tom’s been helping me out a lot with lately.
I don’t think I’ll push the album past ten songs. That’ll make sure that between now and next spring (when I hope to start recording) I’ll be able to keep writing and filtering and picking the very best things I come up with for final inclusion. I did that with Parrot Stories – I had 11 tracks, and then every time I wrote something new, I’d put a new track on and get rid of an old one, because I didn’t want it to be too bloated. Though of course, if I happen to write 11 or 12 songs I think are great and really want to share, then I’ll happily do that :)
I can fit one more episode of FlashForward in before the plane descends.
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