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February 27 Morning Prayers During morning prayers on Sunday the vicar paused for us to bring to God anyone who comes to mind who is sick or distressed. I immediately thought of a poor pregnant girl who, just after being dumped by the baby's father, was thrown 100 feet in the air by a bomb blast on a ferry boat, landing on a jetty before being crushed by a concrete pillar. When she was pulled out of the rubble her face was unrecognisable and she had to undergo weeks of surgery to fix her broken body. Then I remembered it was from watching an episode of Grey’s Anatomy. Which of course is total fiction. Is this a sin I need to repent of? S. February 24 142,857You're going to think I'm sad or mad but something's been bothering me... what is it about 142,857?
When you multiply it by 1 to 6 you find the digits cycle through the digits 142,857: 1 x 142,857 = 142,857 2 x 142,857 = 285,714 3 x 142,857 = 428,571 4 x 142,857 = 571,428 5 x 142,857 = 714,285 6 x 142,857 = 857,142 So you’d expect 7 x 142,857 to equal a number with the same digits right? Wrong, it’s 999,999! How does that work? S. February 18 designing goalstyping this with one hand tonight. the other is under barts, who's fast asleep. don't wanna move. neither does he. his breathing is slowly getting heavier. that's good. i was evaluating some personal planning software this morning. there's some great stuff around. when i came out of my office for coffee i heard sandra calling out to the children... "how are you getting on designing your goals?" i thought she was taking the rip... then i realised she was encouraging them to play soccer. goals are all about perspective don't you think? s. February 15 DovesJust seen the list of DOVE award nominations... golly, there's so many of my friends and cowriters on that list... CONGRATULATIONS!!! We'll be lifting a glass or two from over here! S. February 13 C=f(T+H+M)I've enjoyed several careers... still do in a way. Something I've learnt so far is that, when it comes to choosing who you work with, life is too short to spend it with people you don't trust. I just won't anymore. And I know I'm fortunate to have the choice. One of the things I love about going to Nashville is that there's a level of trust in the writing room that's rare. It has to exist before anyone gets out an idea. Without it no one would dare to suck. Period. I miss that. Someone should write a management theory around it, like, C=f(T+H+M), where: C=creative output T=level of trust H=time spent together, and M=motivation to be creative I'd buy that book at an airport. S. February 11 MacDreamyAir arrived today... so did iWork08. Feels like my world has moved on a decade or so.
S. 4 minute blogI’ve got 4 minutes to write this before my internal command center orders me to bed. So let's do this in bullets:
zzzzzz February 09 I love thatI sometimes feel like it's misleading to call myself a songwriter... although I do write a lot on my own in reality I’m more of a cowriter. But we don’t call pilots “copilots” we call them pilots. So I’m not going to beat myself up about it. But I think the subtle difference is important. There's nothing better in a cowrite than hearing a cowriter say “I love that” about the song we're working on. It’s a little like seeing a scan of a new baby… “look at its little fingers!”... but instead we’re saying “look at our first verse!”. And walking into the writing rooms at BBMP is not totally unlike walking into the delivery suites at St Richard’s Hospital. The last four days have been glorious… the final tally is 10 songs turned in: 8 new songs and 2 rewritten for specific pitches. Plus one demo. So thanks to my cowriters and everyone else who made it work... I love that too. S. February 07 Sleeping through the stormMy cowriters were a little bleary-eyed yesterday, kept up by the tornadoes that swept through the southern states. Although there was incredible damage in their paths we were relatively untouched right here where I am. Thankfully. In fact, last night I crashed at 8.00pm and slept through most of the storm. It was only when I got up at 5.30 to go to an early morning course at FBC that I realised something pretty major had happened around us. I feel like the kid who missed a playground fight... out of the loop but kinda glad about it. Despite the drama, we still got a lot done yesterday. The score so far this trip is four new songs plus one song rewritten for a pitch. Two new cowriters, three artist writers. As Holly says, this is a numbers game. Heard that Julie Roberts (one of my country heros) is due in the writing rooms this week… that justified a call home on my cellphone... Sandra is the only person I know in England who would get as excited as me about that. For the first time someone asked me ‘what would it take to get you to move here’… now that’s a thought... tornados vs rising sea levels S. February 05 Four Years OnI was doing some housekeeping on the way over and I could hardly believe that it's almost my four-year anniversary of coming to Nashville. Some things are just the same…
S.  February 04 Surround soundI'm in the middle of my 9 hour flight to Charlotte. The flight is thankfully less than half full. The sun shades are down and most people are snoozing or watching a movie. I decided to give my ears a rest for a mo and take off my headphones but I wish I hadn't now... I've swapped my stereo movie for surround sound sniffing... There are about 6 men (of course) sitting at NSE&W, plus places in between, that appear grown up enough to get on a plane by themselves but not grown up enough to know how to use a hanky. FOR GOODNESS SAKE JUST BLOW IT!!! People like you take all the glamour out of flying. S. February 02 Poppy's first songPoppy wrote her first song last night. It even had a chorus. She looked out of her window at the stars and had to thank God for how beautiful they looked. I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds this place inspiring. S. |
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