Posted in mg_lost on January 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
SPOILER WARNING!
I am totally thrilled by this ‘time travel’ development. What an amazing storytelling device! And it works so well in the context of this show as opposed to other shows that have tried it and failed (cough cough heroes cough)! This is so much better than flashforwards even. This show continues to raise the [...]
Posted in mg_lost on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ANNUAL SPOILER WARNING: Whenever I talk about Lost, you read at your own risk. If you don’t want to know what happened, then don’t read it.
My favorite TV show of all time returned this week. We brought the TV up from the basement. Normally we watch it online a day or 2 after it [...]
Posted in mg_songwriting on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
this pic is from U2’s video ‘original of the species’. as in origin of the species/evolution…get it?!
This blog is actually a listening exercise as well. Go to: http://www.myspace.com/songevolution to listen to the songs mentioned in this post.
I’ve heard stories of U2 spending alot of time during their recording process coming up with lots of different [...]
Posted in mg_songwriting on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Watch “music & lyrics” – good film about co-writing.
I love co-writing and I hate co-writing.
It’s not that bad. Sometimes it can be very good. Ideally, you can take your strengths and combine it with another writer’s strengths and come up with something stronger than you could have done on your own.
However it is also essentially [...]
Posted in mg_songwriting on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kudos to BloggingMuses for the pic
2008 is the year that I will fondly remember as the year the levee broke in terms of songwriting. I don’t know if I’ll have the time again that I had in my single years to just constantly play music and write songs, but I definitely was able to come [...]
