This Is A Song That Was Written At A Time When My Life Was So Boring That I Had To Fantasise About A

This is a song that was written at a time when my life was so boring that I had to fantasise about a fantasy for even a snifter of excitement. Please note that I have never actually courted another man’s wife.

Sketchbook doodle, 3/5/2015.

Sketchbook doodle. “The arrogant yet inexperienced adventurer poses smugly for the camera, unaware that the peaceful tribe at the centre of his degrading anthropological study is about to brutally murder him.”

Last year while I was in Iceland I read Egil’s Saga. It’s a really fascinating book. I drew this little doodle in my sketchbook of Egil Skallagrimsson standing with the scorn pole that he made and directed at Gunnhild.

Second in what I plan to be a series of “map videos.” This is a tectonic map of the earth produced for the German school system in the 70′s. I see a strong correlation between maps and songs ... both take the infinite chaos of the world and shape it into something comfortingly comprehensible. Thousands of kilometres of rugged coastline represented with a simple line; an extended period of intense emotion reflected in a few minutes of organised sound. A map or a song can only ever be a shadow of the complex beauty that inspired their creation, but under the right circumstances they can shape a new reality with its own intrinsic beauty. A beauty that speaks authentically about the nature of human experience while being happily one step removed from the sometimes remorseless brutality of its crude state.