I've recently been pondering this statement, whilst reading leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers (which I'm enjoying greatly).
Sometimes, in the small hours in between sleeping and wanting to sleep, I have magical achievments.
- I write a brilliant song that ends up being discovered and either bought for a million pounds, or ends up with me getting paid to write songs...
-The Watercats end up on Jools Holland, the same night as a list of particularly shit 'other' bands, which makes us the highlight of the night.. either that or we're on the same night as Patti Smith, J.J Cale and Frank Zappa (it could happen) and they think we're so good they insist on joining the band and we all end up jamming out a song.. THE BEST SONG IN THE WORLD.
-I win enough money to build myself the perfect shed and write a best selling book, one which spills easily from my meagre collection of literary knowledge and one which is thought about deeply by scholars of the english language and heralded as a 'masterpiece' and a 'classic of our times' and I will be said to be an author with a 'fresh and vibrant young voice'... I will know this because these statements will be included on the perfectly shabby chic, brown papered dust cover.. the book will be dedicated to 'all the people out there with at least one book in them'.. and I will wax lyrical on intimate, arty talk shows about 'the process' and 'the inspiration' and 'the inner voice'.. and 'my editor and publishers who helped make it all happen and were utterly brilliant in their support.'
- Sometimes I just imagine my glorious vegetable patch, flourishing and packed with ripeness, full of no weeds and a distinct lack of rabbits.
Anyway. For now I have this to share.. whilst I'm waiting for my AWESOME MUSE to come and kick my arse out of poverty in a way best suited to one unqualified, with tendencies to grate on discipline and looking smart....
Avoid The Crows (c) The Watercats 2011 by vickyguns
ENJOY!
All very possible. The best "English" books have usually been written by Irish writers.
ReplyDeleteJust listened to Avoid The Crows. Good one. Watched a dirty great crow hopping about while I sat in the car eating my lunch today.
ReplyDeleteI love this song - I listened to it twice while I was checking out Rachel Fox's traveling photos (they were in Nashville & Memphis so I thought that was appropriate).
ReplyDeleteGo for it with the novel - you really never know what will float people's boats :)
wish i'd bought my earphones
ReplyDeleteso i could listen to your clip
suspect it may be bad form to hit the play button
while sitting in the back row of an auditorium
even though phones are going off as i type
heh heh
The shed is a distinct possibility ( I may have shed envy)and the book would surely follow!
ReplyDelete'send me somewhere absolutley useless' that's my head ever night that is!
ReplyDeleteGreat song there lads.
'every' fuckin 'every'! Godamn useless piece of shit keyboard (operator) !!
ReplyDeleteAre you sure these are happening when you're not sound asleep and dreaming copiously ?
ReplyDeleteWell whater, keep on dreaming, or day dreaming, we all need dreams to get by on... Heck, write a song about it ! Write a whole novel about dreaming !
I spent years getting bogged down in the thought that there was no point writing my novel, because it would probably never get published - so i got to the point where i thought feck that and will be self publishing and perfectly happy when no one reads it.
ReplyDeleteYou guys have started taking some good steps - gigs recently, sounding great on the recordings - but if you want to be on Jules send him a CD every week, and then every day :)
DOMINIC:
ReplyDeleteehhh.. I'm doomed so, technically I'm of English blood.. (but don't tell anyone) ;-)
BUG:
I', honestly far too lazy to write a book.. I have an attention span of about three minutes, I have no history of any amount of self discipline.. when things get difficult, my approach is that life is too short to be spending time working through it.. leave it and move on...
INDIANA:
sods law that is.. and mobile phones are the curse of the modern age.. cheers!
FECKINEEJIT:
mis-spellings are accepted round here you know.. glad you like the lyric.. cos fuck knows what it's about :-D
OWEN:
can't be bovvered... it is impossible to do anything truly origina any more (in my pessimistic humble opionion)
D.F.T.P'S:
fair play to you for writing your book, I really admire people who have the staying power to do things for themselves.. I envy them too, it must be a rewarding feeling... can't even be bothered to send a c.d to jools! :-D
If you became too successful, you'd have to worry about selling out. Then your fans would hate you. And you'd hate yourself. Just keep creating great art, doing what you love, and success will find you.
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