Ramblings From Justin Penney

That's all I can come up with lately. Teeny tiny little parts of songs. I'll write a chrous here, a verse there. Hey there's a cool line. Then they just go nowhere. I've got some verse/chorus/verse/choruse stuff but I feel like I need more parts. I've got songs with no words and words with no songs and ideas like crazy but they won't come together. I don't know if it's the whole "your own worst critic" thing or what but it seems like I've been coming up empty.

Lily has been sick, her stomach hurts and she has a fever. She's far from a happy camper. Taking that into account tonight at practice with his last chance we turned the amps down, I played all on the clean channel and Ryan played with those multi-rod things (the little sticks bundled together). It was such a neat perspective on the stuff. It wasn't like doing the acoustic set it was definitely different to play in that setting. I just started playing this completely weird stuff and Ryan kept right with me. Some great ideas. I just can't put them together.

I feel like I need someone to play off of. I feel a lot of pressure with his last chance to write a lot. Nick and Ryan have never been much on writing which is fine but it feels like a extra responsibility to come up with new material and it hurts because it never comes.

# posted by Justin @ 12:25 AM