Missed

Okay! Emboldened some by the overwhelmingly supportive response last time, I won't lock this one.

Missed is a rather older song than the last; I wrote it over three days in early 2002*, and I actually even recorded it once before, sometime that year, for Rachel. I no longer even have that file (though I'll bet she does), but I trust that this one shows at least some small improvement. (I'm pretty happy with it; the only really prominent flaw is a hesitation in the last verse, and the few bars thereafter stained with the resulting nervousness. Oh, and I manage at the end to sing 'thit's' instead of 'that's', but that's a pretty minor thing.)

For those who aren't familiar with the song, my explanation of the (perhaps over-) simplicity of the lyric is that I was going for early Beatles. The deepish guitar solo will, of course, probably sound very little like what stands in for it here.


* March, I guess, because I began it in the shower in New York, and I remember that I left on that trip right as Miho fell. This is, of course, a coincidence; the song is not about Miho (sorry, J.).

Excitement and Pleasure

The Liberals tabled their same-sex marriage legislation the other day. (In Windsor House nomenclature, to 'table' something is to put it aside until the next meeting, but apparently in Parliament it can be very nearly the opposite.) Wikipedia has a neat page charting how each MP is likely to vote; it reminds me pleasantly of A Civil Campaign.

Speaking of good books, apparently Diana Wynne Jones has a new one coming out this April. Yum.

I finally have a Langara bus pass this month; no more need I hesitate to go somewhere, or just wander around, because it will cost me money. It's surprising what a joy and a relief this mobility is, especially as the weather (cold winds notwithstanding) strives increasingly toward Spring. Soon - another month - there will be cherry blossoms. Already the air tastes wonderful. Perhaps sometime soon I'll get on the skytrain and ride it the whole way around, or get off somewhere I never have before; old enthusiasms waking anew.