Welcome to Episode 76 of my podcast. The view from the crow's nest. Today is the 20th of August, 2020. And just like last night I've been out for a walk, which has been fair pleasant, it's about 11 o'clock right now and evening, just been out for a walk, which is a second walk in as many days and probably about the second walk in a month or six weeks or something like that, because I've been so stuck at home. And I also. I was a bit cheaty. I had a little beer on the road, because it's really pleasant. And also wanted to celebrate adder yesterday was a very good day today is a very good day as well as kind of similar to yesterday in some ways in that I feel yesterday in favour the first two days in quite some time where I felt like I've actually covered all the things I wanted to cover in the day like I really, I mean, not all things I wanted to cover because you know there's no days long enough for that. But, you know, I managed to get things completed I managed to get things organised and I get, you know, move projects forward and really feel like I'm making an impact, which is really cool, and Chief among those. Well, well my own musical projects and I think that's probably why I feel so much better in these last couple of days, in terms of, you know, getting things done and being on top of things. And so today, I released five songs or some ideas into the lab. So the lab is my private member's club where every week on a Thursday, I put a new song, or a new musical idea into the, into the club in you know as basically as a blog post. And for five weeks I've not done any because I've been so embroiled with audience ninja with my new marketing agency and just been so busy with that. And I feel really bad because you know the lab is really that I want that to be my absolute focus you know those people who are paying to become members for the year apart via, they get other things apart from the post each week but you know I want to make sure that I I deliver on that. And so for the last five weeks I have not, and I feel really bad about it and can something so yesterday. I spent the morning, preparing the audio files for the songs that I was going to share. And that required me to open up my music production software and play with some new toys like plugins kind of software basically that I hadn't used before. And so that was cool because it kind of brought me back into yeah music I'm a bit of a musician here. And, and also listening back to those five tracks I mean they were very diverse. Some of them were recorded back in. In the earliest one of these tracks was recorded into this version was recorded in 2012. It was written 10 years before that, and the latest track of those five, I wrote earlier this week. And so, you know, real difference in styles and difference and stuff. And so that was cool because it kind of reminds me that, actually, you know you listen back on a particular if you haven't listened to it for a while, at least I do as a songwriter and as a producer and you go, actually, that sounds really cool. I'm proud of myself for writing that, you know, bit of distance often seems to do that i think you know you feel better about or at least I feel better about something I've written, maybe a couple years down the line or whatever when I hear it with fresh ears, and go actually that stands up on its own is good. So yesterday morning I was doing all the music for that and then yesterday afternoon or rather, evening after I'd done the afternoon's work of audience ninja I recorded the videos to go along with it so every post I put into the lab has a story behind the song video where I do my best to give context and depth and meaning to the song. And when I say meaning I don't necessarily mean some deep and meaningful I mean just so that you when you listen to it you understand kind of where it came from, what the point was and, and that might simply be. I was watching this huge video where he showed me some Hendrix c
