May 30, 2008

New song: Ten

It’s not necessarily finished yet, but who needs to finish songs when they can be YouTubed around the world in seconds and then fly back like a boomerang laden with feedback and comments, ready to be rewritten and demoed a few more times. Unfinished is the new finished.

Of course sometimes things are actually finished. Like the five songs I put on last.fm yesterday under the title “I Hate Mornings Vol. 1″:http://www.last.fm/music/JB+Walker/I+Hate+Mornings+Vol.+1. They’re good to go. Fully baked. Done.

h3. It’s all about Tenpower.

So the new song is cool. Poppy (as in the genre, not the flower). Simple. Effective. It’s called Ten. Want to know why? I’ll tell you. I was reading cvs2bvs: software for your brain from the “School Of Thinking”:http://www.schoolofthinking.org, and came across the concept of Tenpower, which is “the deliberate or habitual use of the number 10″ as a way of imposing an arbitrary system of measurement on a situation. The idea is that you can always aim for a situation that is “ten times better” even if you can’t measure the initial situation.

Applying tenpower to a fraught relationship, we find our hero desperately trying to prove his love (on paper) by working out how many times better things are now that he is with his lady. As I’m sure you’re all aware, this isn’t really what girls are looking for when they ask you to prove your love. As usual, the solution is not to look for a solution (even if you can prove it on paper), but to think “outside the box”:http://www.schoolofthinking.org/how-sot-training/lateral-thinking/ and go for the age old three pronged attack of Understanding, Validation and Emotional Support. But that’s for another song. You’ll have to make do with some amusing facial expressions for now…

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2 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. Michael 

    <p>Hi Ben,</p>

<p>Ten is a catchy tune! I like it. I&#8217;ll check out more of your music but meanwhile I&#8217;ve blogged it (2 June)on the <span class="caps">SOT</span> site: http://www.schoolofthinking.org/&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Ben rocks!</p>

    Jun 2nd, 2008

  2. John Kelly 

    <p>Hey Ben. Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog, which allowed me, through the various pipes of the Internet, to find yours. I like the songs and only wish I&#8217;d found you earlier. I bought a drum kit when I arrived 10 months ago and sold it last month after some half-hearted action with a couple cover bands. And now we move back to the States in a fortnight. </p>

<p>I enjoyed the Classic Rock Tales. I played in college and we stuck a couple of  our, um, 25-year-old songs up on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/therealspectacles.  If only we&#8217;d persevered more or, more importantly, been better. Oh well. Good luck.</p>

    Jun 10th, 2008

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