Writing In The Key of Tree

I've been reading this really cool book about writing lyrics ("Writing Better Lyrics"), and it talks about writing in the key of the subject matter at hand. So if you're writing lyrics about a pig, you'd write in the key of pig.
This is especially exciting to do. You write, "Key of: _______" at the top with your blank filled in, and write below all the words that come to mind. The more adjectives and nouns that come to mind the better.

You end up with a word bank, and writing your lyrics can be a lot faster with some words already there. Anyway, thought it was a cool method and wanted to share with the interwebbing.

New Anxieties

Last week I called this man who's pretty massive in the music industry up here in Utah and who also grew up with my oldest brother. I'm supposed to meet with him / see his studio today at 4pm possibly. He told me to call him this morning to remind him but it only rang twice and I left a voicemail. I have borderline extreme anxiety about the event. Their website is here. After I looked through their gear and did some poking around and I felt intimidation as well. So in the shower this morning I realized that the butterflies and sickening anxiety wasn't going to help me, and that people like calm and natural-acting people - more than those who cut themselves down in the off-chance that people will hate their being there or what they have to offer. I have been talking aloud to myself to figure out what I want to say, and it just makes it worse. So I'm going to act like nothing huge is happening today even though I feel like I'm walking into the White House for a job interview.

New updates:

I made a new website for Venter's Stag Motel here, and I like it because it's really clean and spare.

I still have the VSM blog, and I post the more intense information there. I figure if someone is willing to check out the "blog" then they actually want some legit hordes of info, but if they're a tentative newcomer, I'll make it simple and clear with the main website.

There are some new songs on the SoundCloud since last I wrote here.. in fact I bet the entire SoundCloud account is a new thing since I last wrote.

I have a T-Shirt shop on Spreadshirt. I really like that website - you come up with the designs as PNGs or JPEGs whatever, and digitally design it on their website. When people want a shirt you "made", spreadshirt makes the shirt to order according to your most recently saved design for that product. So I don't have to pay a penny. It's free to make the store, easy to upload the designs and place them on a shirt, and drag them into my "store". Brilliant. I even bought some of the shirts and sweatshirts and I have to say they are legit and good quality.

My friend Micah found a ridiculously fun game online here.