Medicative Music
I finally got around to watching Once the other night, after the weight of recommendations from from friends and many awards finally crushed my laziness. I remember first seeing a trailer for it and thinking “that movie is going to play my heart like a harp”, and it certainly did.
I’ve been inhaling all the related music I can get my grubby mitts on. The soundtrack to Once is great, and so is the album The Swell Season by Glen Hansard Markéta Irglová. Glen Hansard’s Irish rock band The Frames is pretty good and their live album Set List does me right.
As a result of my exposure to such awesome songwriting, I’ve picked up my acoustic guitar again. It’s been about three months since I’ve felt really motivated to play my own music, and I’m glad the sensation is back in that part of my brain. New strings, springtime, it’s the makings of inspiration.
Tonight I worked out an idea for an album, let’s call it Year Two. Stitched together out of some songs that have been kicking around unpolished for too long and some I’m writing now, I think it just might have some cohesion. I wrote one tonight about Yuri Gagarin and it is all kinds of good. Stay tuned.