WRITING A MUSICAL

My Friend Regret.

So I'm writing a musical. It wasn't a decision I made for any particular reason. In fact, it's not a decision I made at all. Rather, over the last three weeks, fifteen songs have just floated down from the heavens and I've dutifully filled up page after page in my spiral notebook, carefully immortalizing every note and every word with my favorite ballpoint pen. What seems to be manifesting before me is a dark musical comedy about Regret and several people who know her well.... among them a failed musician, a Karen who loses it all, and a cowboy with a secret.

The way I've handled the creation of art for much of my life has been a sort of "hide away in an ivory tower" approach. In other words, lock myself away, toiling obsessively in secret until, one day, a masterpiece is ready to be unveiled. The universe hasn't been too cool to me, though, and after my life's work being systematically gobbled up more than once by some kind of unseen spiritual force, I'm taking a new approach.

I call it the "look what I did today" approach.

The pendulum swings the opposite way here as now, instead of working for any length of time to master or cultivate anything, I'm planting seeds, yelling "look at me" and "watch them grow."

And so it goes.

Here are some of the songs from My Friend Regret. These are just the piano/vocal drafts. I will produce, orchestrate and record all these.... but not in secret. The universe has made Herself quite clear in this regard. I am to share as I go.

So enjoy (or don't!) watching a 21st century musical come to life.

This will be updated as time goes on. Lots of songs I still need to make videos for.