Piano

Sometimes I don't have any words. All I can do is put on some music and hope that someone else might be able to say what I am feeling. Music is my alcoholic beverage of choice. It goes down both smooth and with intensity. It can lead me to distraction, or relax me enough to move forward with life. I am addicted to musics deeper expression of reality. I want to touch moments in slow motion and music can take me to that place where the clocks stop.

In my most fragile moments, I step into a dark room filled with ivories. I will sit in front of an old upright piano and slowly press into each key. One of these notes will let it all out. One of these melodies says more than need be said in ordinary conversation. It is me, the music, and God - the song need not be pretty, the music is beautiful.

I think it is time to start composing again...


~David

Rain

I have a recurring fixation with rain. It is pouring down outside, and it just makes everything right. The scent and smell... the feeling of coldness drenching you through your clothes. Running is good, but running in the rain is better than good - it's fantastic. There is something otherly about the way that rain can say, with just a few drops, "Sometimes life does not go the way that you expect, but for these few moments that is okay."

Patty Griffin makes me think of rain, so does Jack Johnson - listening to "Banana Pancakes" with the sunroof open is glorious (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee4jGYgFG2A). Rain is in the movies, books, and song titles. It seems that almost every musician is required to write a song about rain at one point or another. Each lyrics is nearly as corny as the last, yet... somehow significant all the same.

I have yet to write my 'rain song' but maybe one day I will be able to unveil my ode to rain.


~David

A Knights Tale

Strong, handsome, chivalrous, artsy, reliable and stable, a listener, reader, writer, chef, musician, gentleman - this is me.

I am dreaming.



I am not a prince.

I am the stable boy.

I have heard rumors of royalty. Tales of men who know what is right, and fight for it. I wonder if there are actually any knights out there? Men of honor.

Can a man change his stars? Watch me. I need not be a victim to my circumstance or my natural predisposition. I want to find what is right and fight for it. Even if knights are a myth, I want to make them an actuality.


~David