Journal
You Just Can't Smile It Away
I'm definitely one of those people who can't just smile it away.
My face tends to speak louder than my words.
Sometimes this is intentional. Sometimes it isn't.
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Dreams From The Woods
Room For Squares
'They love to tell you "stay inside the line", but something's better on the other side.'
The discovery of this album precipitated a complete transformation of how I saw, heard, communicated with and ultimately made music.
Prior to this I was writing awful R'n'B songs, basically regurgitating the formulaic, paint-by-numbers club tunes I was surrounded by, hoping that what I was creating would eventually lead me to my very own, vague, 'career heaven'.
Picking up a guitar and then stumbling across this album changed everything. At this time John Mayer represented someone who wrote songs about ordinary things in a way I'd never heard before. Someone who seemed to have accessed a place of authenticity and had found a way of presenting this information in such a way that a complete stranger [me] could relate to, absorb, enjoy and maybe learn from.
That is what I wanted to do! Vague career heaven summarily dismissed. Goal specificity accessed and identified. This was it.
This is still it.
And even though it's been about six years since I picked up a guitar, I still feel as though I'm at the beginning of this thing. I kinda like that feeling. Arriving is so overrated. So fleeting.
Anyway thank you John. It really is impossible difficult to know how something will change your life. I know it sounds dramatic, but this album really did that.
I know it sounds annoying,presumptuous, & sanctimoniously sick-inducing but...
I really want to do this for someone else. (there I said it!)
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