Rock Star!

Someday, like when I'm in my forties, perhaps, I want to become a rock star.

No, really.

A long ago friend of mine, who has a busy and rich life, and who doesn't feel he has a creative outlet (imagine that), he is/was/is in a band. Someday, with permission of course, I may post up a few of his songs...

It is my dream to write/play songs that are Radiohead-esque... Not a lot of clangy OR acoustic guitar so much... but the kind of music you could put on your iPod and walk around in with a smooth kind of atmosphere like ghosts around you... Like you're swallowed by a lemonade cloud, and when you breathe, you swallow IT, and it tastes faintly sweet... That kind of music.

At one point in time, I was vainly searching for "summery" music. But it was kinda out of fashion in the nineties... So I instead fell into discordant music... Weird, but for a time, I was REALLY into NIN and KMFDM sort of stuff... And I LOVED (sometimes still do) techno/electronica... There was a song by a band named "Temple of Dreams," and it started off with this clip of Richard Dawson from "Running Man" saying, "Who loves you, and who do you love?" And then it had this ripping techno grind, and in the floating chorus, this smooth sexy girl voice sang, "Did I dream - you dreamed about me?"

Nowadays, that kind of music seems too angry... And while I am too cynical to fall instantly for "summery" music, I do appreciate something that is smooth and atmospheric. I don't know. Am I getting OLD?

In any case, that's the kind of rock music that we forty year olds would probably make.

What I'll make.

When I'm forty years old.