Oorgo

Arrange the arranger

So I just finished watching Napoleon Dynamite, what, am I the last person n this planet to have watched it? Well it was funny enough, the beer I had consumed pushed it over the edge of fucked up to funny.

Well that's not the point of this post, on this of my 2 weekends off from gigs I finally got around to workjing on some old original songs that I made back in ... oh... a while back... and it was inspiring, it really was. I am working at getting a few (probably 3) songs arranged for sextet, trumpet alto sax, trombone, and getting them recorded so I can finish my ill fated degree (well Ok I don't know if it' s entirely ill-fated, it hasn't been completely killed yet).

I realized a couple of things while working on this old stuff. I'm rusty at it, which is to be imagined, and there were mistakes in the originals which I apparently overlooked at the time. It also kept me up late Saturday night, well into 3 am. This in itself greatly reminded me of the old days, when I did these late night creative things, and the juices flowed, and I thought deep thoughts. I had a great time.

I've also come to enlightenment in the last while that I'm not really a writer per se, because I can't take the time to doublecheck all my facts, or check whether that was the correct word to say in that instance, or sometimes whether my grammar checks out. I don't think I will ever be that guy, I just don't have the focus or background in writing. I'm also the type to start many many things but never fin

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