Hogmanay

I would desperately like to be able to say how much better everything feels. How revived I am at the prospect of a new year. Unfortunately I absolutely loathe new years with all it's little reminders of how fast life goes by and how much of that life we spend wishing we were living somebody else's. No, I'm sorry but January can really fuck off. February, however, will bring contemplation and a feeling of impending productivity. By March I will be full of the joys of the coming spring and all it's wondrous hope.

There are exciting things coming up for this year. The EP recording is finally scheduled for the first week in February. In the mean time I'm trying to start writing again, or at least trying to get some ideas, it's like attempting to unblock a particularly stubborn drain. There's some deadlines, I want a new set of songs to start performing once the EP is finished, so I can properly lay to rest the old stuff. I also have a song to write for the Barefeet Records compilation which will be out in April (http://barefeetrecordsmusic.bigcartel.com/). After all this I'm planning on taking a hiatus in the late spring and going to visit my father in southern Spain. He's renovating an old house out there at the moment and I'm offering my (very limited) skills in return for bed and board. We have an odd way of avoiding being with one another for long periods of time due to being overly similar and prone to driving each other insane. I'm not sure that spending a few weeks working together in an old house is the best way of confronting this.

I'm hoping 2011 will be much like 2010 but with more of the good stuff and less of the bad stuff.

So far I seem to be spending much of it alone, I'm never comfortable imposing myself on others when I'm in such a funk. But, as a very wise and gentle man wrote to me, it isn't winter forever.....