Ciggy Ciggy!

*jumps in on the create posts stool without having anything in particular to talk about*

i dont want to do it but by st. peter's mircale staff i did. two days ago i passed a demo of my songs to synergy music. yep i did. since i'd be leaving our glorious country i decided to leave Filipinos a piece of the music that they want (actually, to be honest, i took chances teehee). all four of them are in tagalog and they are the songs that you usually hear in radio. the songs that most of them intelihente wouldn't want to hear. but accept the fact man, we are only but sleeves of the whole shirt of this popula.

i saw notes on the faces of clouds. and since then i wrote songs. and oh! i had this conversation with dong abay, the farmer-yano, as he calls himself or whoever coined that new alias, weeks ago. man, the guy is amazing. hmmm.. i hope i can do a podcast of that interview here. how how how carabao. i'll do something about that next week. so dong was talking about writing songs, he said, "you can write about almost anything", which is pretty obvious even if you have a pea-sized brain. i can't recall everything he said but the passion is oozing out of his nose! the spaces for you to breathe while listening to his musings are scarce. his zeal for his craft is overwhelming. *looks for podcast*

i'm stuck with this "ikaw" song for months and i haven't finished it because of these reasons:

1. i want it to be contrastive, happy but sadly nostalgic. so i tossed in upbeat drums but setting the key to minor b. minor = sad. upbeat = happy. i don't know if im making sense. and besides i only make music for myself coz the one that i made this song for thinks of it as a sad song, but the lyrics is not really that heavy. here's the torso of the song:

kundi ikaw
kung hindi ikaw
ano ang gagawin
kung di ikaw
hindi buo ang damadamin
ikaw ikaw ikaw


2. sometimes you have that feeling that what you just did is not really that good? so you keep on redoing and revising and redoing it.

3. and again i have no time. but i should have because the parable of talents is ringing in my mind whenever i feel lazy to tinker on my craft.

well as what dong abay said, "bank and bank songs, write for the Filipinos, music is a tool to feel alive." be-a-utiful.

*jumps out of the seat and looks at the guitar...* but i have a lot of officework to do :(

oh, have a nice weekend. :)

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