Another Day in the City

Okay, I must admit that the last few days weather-wise have kept me in a tailspin. It's warm, spring is coming - no it's still winter and you better keep those short sleeves packed away. Of course I went out yesterday with a spring jacket on and the chill soaked right through my clothes. Ugh!

I'll be recording five of my original songs in a few weeks and I'm getting antsy and nervous. When you've created something, anything the process of watching it come to life can be a little surreal. The moments come and go in some sort of aggravated slow motion and you find yourself analyzing every moment trying to control the process. I'll be working with four players this time, great professionals and two whom I consider wonderful friends. Let me just say that professional musicians are magical to me; the way they amalgamate sound to create something beautiful and touching. First we have to rehearse and then it'll be off to the recording studio.

Reading a great thriller novel called "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt. It's set at Hampden College in Vermont and revolves around a close-knit clan of Greek scholars who take their classical studies to the extreme until they cross the unseen line in the sand. Tartt's prose is beautiful and provocative and I can almost see the movie in my mind as the paragraphs unfold. It's amazing to me, though, how there are secrets that even she (the author) doesn't reveal in detail. Of course it's interesting that I'm reading this because I have a historical book at home that contains plenty of Greek passages that I would love to be able to translate. Might have to get someone to help me with that.

Anyhoo, it's another day in NYC. I'm craving constant warm weather and sunshine instead of this teaser weather we seem to be getting.

Talk to you soon!