I've lived in houses with pools on occasion in my life, and unlike a house that is near the beach, lake or ocean, we don't say the house is by a pool. Why is that? And stranger, why do we sometimes just forget that we have a pool or even look at it every single... Continue Reading →
Songs Are Often Sunny
Bandcamp link Here's a happy uplifting instrumental song I made (a while ago - don't know how this didn't get posted) over a few weeks on GarageBand iOS. Cheerful and upbeat? No idea where that came from, but like a puppy it crawled into my lap and stayed. For those that don't write or play... Continue Reading →
Music: Gray Garden Rain
I often touch a piano with little idea that a new song is going to come out.It's usually a pleasant surprise, and here's another. From an improvisation into GarageBand iOS via midi. it ended up on my Bandcamp page! Click for a free listen. In the production process I ended up tripping on the echoing... Continue Reading →
Music: You Are My Present
You Are My Present, a song by David Watson. Performed live to tape. Well, digital. https://youtu.be/G5t6D6wGgH4 It's my birthday so I put this relevant song on Facebook today, and thought I would share it here. I wrote this song years ago, shortly after my wife gave birth to our first child, but it really does... Continue Reading →
A Lullabye For Waking Up – Slept In
Click To Listen: Slept In - improvisation by David Watson Slept In by David Watson Sort of a reverse lullabye, for those times when you want to be awake, but not very, and the tendrils of almost-forgotten dreams are floating around you and you don't want to turn on any lights or move fast or grab... Continue Reading →
Listen To This: NPR Music’s The Austin 100: Stream Or Download Our 2018 SXSW Mixtape
I am always on the lookout for ways to make things more efficient so that I can fit new things in my life, or maybe catch up on all the things I haven't gotten to. Honestly sometimes it's to give me more time to goof off, but so what. So I have this habit going... Continue Reading →
Capture Creativity Quick
So one of the difference between successful people and -- let's say less successful people? -- isn't the ideas. It's sharing them. It takes a lot of work, but we can take the first step very easily. If your goal is producing creative content, jokes, stories, music, art, whatever.... the trick is to capture the... Continue Reading →
Fake It Until You Make It Is Terrible Advice For Artists
What does it even mean? Try hard until you succeed? No, that would be fine. Is it some perverse sexual wordplay? Well, art is art, but no. So, pretend that you can do something until you do? That's great if you're in an 80's movie*, but really, if you are trying to make something.... Wait... Continue Reading →
Christmas In Your Eyes
Another holiday, another song... (well a new recording, anyway) with a little video to entertain you while you listen. From our Facebook page!* "Happy Christmas holidays everyone! It's time for another song (not the one I planned, but it's sweeter....) Your present is a song I wrote when my daughter was two. You can interpret... Continue Reading →