WRITING ABOUT WRITING
...is not that exciting (nice couplet). So this week’s entry is brief. I have been on writing retreat in St. Marin de Re, the main town on Ile de Re (not having a car, I opted to rent a small flat here, as our house is pretty far from mod cons—plus, the vibe was just right in this little place). I have some new songs that I am really happy with, either from finishing odds and ends I have been compiling over the last months or totally from scratch. Don’t look for me here, as by the time you read this, I will already be gone…
Today’s (Monday) International Herald Tribune has a tiny picture of REM playing, on the Jools Holland Show, in 2001. I am visible, the little guy with the fluffy hair and the light colored suit, on the extreme left behind the keyboards. The photo accompanies an article on the secondary usages of live broadcast material, and can be found on page on page 10. REM’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is tonight, in fact. I send them a resounding huzzah!
OK, see you soon on my upcoming Europe tour …this being the 3rd? 4th? 5th? tour of the continent for Soft Commands…add that to my Australia/NZ tour 2005, the States in 2004, and SE Asia in 2006, and you get a pretty good idea that Soft Commands is a little rec. that could. Here’s to my next record being a bigger record that will. Thank you to everyone who has traveled with me this far.
Love
KS
St. Martin de Re, FRANCE
