Monday, February 28, 2005
Deadlines and DEADlines
Gradually getting some tunes written. Having an undergraduate degree in Journalism must make me a deadline-thriving creature. I hated stuff like Latin and History. I never memorized enough of them on time. But writing assignments... I got them in on time, every time. It must have been an escape from stuff I hated to do. Still is. If I were a serial criminal of any kind, I'd be very into writing about it and mailing it into the papers. Probably demand syndication rights too.So I'm shooing Cathy away as she tries to get me to compile tax data but I'm making good progress on these new songs. My goal is to have at least five done and ready to go for my New York gigs on April 22 and 23. I worked on one with my guitar student Jim Salhoff and I'll include that, if not more. I'll also do at least one of his.
The second collection of songs will not fit onto a concept album. Unless you consider sophmorism a concept. Also, I don't think I have a novel in me. I can write my ass off but my attention span rarely reaches the length of a short story. The Blogosphere just heaved a sign of relief that a Bud Buckley rock opera is not likely to emerge any time soon.
This portion of my life is a cruel deadline, if you think about it. Do all the stuff I didn't do when I was a young working stiff before I die. I won't know if I missed the deadline until it's too late, however. I hope they don't dock my pay for that.
posted by Bud @ 6:12 AM
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