Summer Camp
I wrote a guest column for Chris and the gang at Striker Bill. The essay is titled “How To Write A Song From Your Life” and it was fun to write. Striker Bill had previously written a glowing review of the new record and it was fun to work with them to write this little thing.
The point I make is pretty simple which is to avoid being banal and try to create some mystery.
Here’s a blurb:
The thing about your life is that it is beautiful. And it is worthy of poetry. And the other part of that truth is that you must find, paraphrasing Fitzgerald, a way to say something new or a way to something old but so filled with honesty and raw emotion that it is overpowering.
It goes on. Click here to read the whole thing.
UPDATE: In other news, Pain Is A Reliable Signal, is currently #13 on Top Albums of 2009 on same website beating out people like Super Furry Animals, Pains of Being Pure At Heart, etc.
