Monday, November 29, 2004
Melodies Blowing in the Wind
Song ideas flood me when I'm pumping peddles, heart rate above 140. What's left is like so many sweat stains by the time I get back to my keyboard. A phrase here, a rhyme there. Never a melody. Melodies seem to evaporate in the wind.I'm really gonna have to invent a device to record the ideas I have for songs while riding my bike at high speeds through traffic, state parks and various residential areas. It should be incorporated into my helmet with a voice activated mouth piece. I don't want it in my ear, though. That is too painful. I need to use in-ear monitors for performance most of the time and they don't hurt as much as the cell phone no-hands deal but I really have to search for a better fit. I fear I'll become deaf AND unfittable for a hearing device.
Even if Beethoven's music leaves you cold, his genius for composing while deaf, to me is one of the crowning achievements of creative human intelligence. I wonder if there is a famous blind sculptor anyplace in history? I guess Helen Keller has to rank in here too, come to think of it. Is there a chef with no sense of smell and thus impaired taste? I think jockey Willie Shoemaker actually trained horses while paralysed and in a wheelchair. Anybody know of a paraplegic gymnastics coach? Hey, I just remembered; I taught spelling for years and my closest friends and former teachers know what a laugh my spelling skills are. I suppose that even with the memory of a common house fly, I can mange to write good songs before they blow off into the wind. I know I'll find a way.
posted by Bud @ 1:42 PM
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