Posted 4:00 PM by Luke
Breath in that smooth air

I stepped out of the J-school into a warm blanket. It was that first wonderful feeling of Spring. As if I could just lie back and float away on the smooth air. I slowly drew in a breath, just to feel it go down. No pain. No cold biting. Just smooth. And heaven's even better than this. JIll and I turned to each other and let out simultaneous sighs of relief. Finally.......

Oh my sweet Lord, it's a nice day. The weather I have been longing for is finally here! I have the windows open and I'm enjoying the cool, comfortable breezes for the first time in what seems like ages. Quite the good day, I must say. But I really should be doing work instead of procrastinating. I have never been this bad about procrastinating until this semester. I am able to find anything to keep from doing my school work. Especially since I got my dad's guitar, the wonderful Martin. I haven't been able to put the thing down. At least it's a good, productive distraction. I am starting to feel more serious about seeing if music is something I would want to pursue in some way. I don't know if I mentioned it before, but I just had this revelation that I like music more than the average person. A LOT more. It affects me in an intense way almost all the time. I started to think about the fact that maybe I love it that much for more of a reason than just for my own enjoyment. I dunno.... The artists I connect the most with are the ones that are obviously intensely connected with their music. The only problem is, I have had no success in writing songs. Of course, I haven't really tried hard enough. I get frustrated quickly when the words won't come, and that's my biggest problem. But I know I can write words. I do that every day for cryin out loud, I'm a journalism student! The difficulty comes when I try to come up with music AND words. I need to brush up on my music theory, start getting a feel for what goes well together again besides the basic G C D Eminor praise and worship chord progressions. Right now I have just been playing around a lto, learning various songs, working on getting the old skills back that had been neglected for far too long. All thanks to my dad's Martin :) We'll see how this all unfolds.

Music that has accompanied this wonderful day: Wilco, "Summerteeth" this morning. I had been intentionally holding off on this album for a sunny, warm day, because that's the exact feel it has. Now I am listening to the Beatles self-titled cd (aka the White Album). Awesome. Duh. It's the Beatles. Listening to the songs on this album really inspires me to want to write music. It's just such an ecclectic combination of rock, folk and jazz. You flip from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" to "Mother Nature's Son" to "Honey Pie." So different yet it all fits together into 90 minutes of beautiful bliss. And "Helter Skelter" predates Led Zeppelin. How's that for hard rock? If you haven;t heard these two albums, go buy them!