Last night I stitched the lyrics to Dreams by Tom Milsom, which is on his new (and absolutely stunning) album, Organs, on the back of an old, ratty t-shirt. I would highly recommend checking out the album if you haven't already!
So basically when I get bored I like to transcribe audio or videos in to text, so tonight I transcribed Tom Milsom's video "Videos" because I was bored and I find what he says in it to be quite interesting. Click the thing if you want to read it. (Note: I'm sorry if anything is wrong, I am a beginner at this and did my best)
I think a lot of people have methods for making videos. They have a routine that they perform, um, every time they want to make a video, they have an idea for a video. And they go through the process of making a video with that idea. And I- I wish I had that but I don’t. I don’t- I don’t know how to make videos. I’ve never known how to make videos. I don’t know how to write songs. A lot of people will ask me “oh how do you- how do you write songs? Do you write the lyrics first or do you write the chords first?” And I- I don’t do either. It doesn’t- it doesn’t work like that. There’s a constant noise of ideas in all of our heads. You just have ideas all the time. There always there and you- you just occasionally will pluck a particularly juicy one out and it’s there and it’s just like a fragment of a bigger thing, and it’s there and it means so much in so little, and you use it for the basis of something bigger. so you’ve got like a second, you’ve got a lyric or, uh, just like a line of a song or like a chord change that just jumps out at you. You’re inspired to write a particular melody and then you take that second and you- and you build upon it like an oyster builds upon a grain of sand and turns it into a pearl. You build upon that one little salient thing and you build it in to a song, like a three minute, four minute song.
I don’t know how you do that with videos. I’ve never known how you- I’ve never known how you do that with videos. Um, I guess it’s kind of pretty much the same process but I- I’ve never been able to do it. I’m not- I’m not a- I’m a musician; I’m not a videographer. I’ve never been particularly good at making videos. Um.. and- and the grains of sand I guess, to continue with the oyster metaphor, the grains of sand that I would turn in to videos, instead I’d put it on twitter, or tumblr or something, but they get washed away and nobody really pays much attention to them after the first, like, two minutes. So I guess what I’m trying to say is I- I need to spend more time taking those thoughts that I kind of thrown away, ‘cause it’s a lot of effort to get a camera out and point it at you and then edit it together and upload it to the Internet. It’s a lot of effort for ideas that maybe don’t seem particularly inspiring. And it’s a lot to say here is my face and here are my words and here are my things and then there are a hundred thousand of you and here this is worth your time. Maybe it isn’t, I don’t know. You signed up for it. So… get what you ask for. Uh, there’s no punch line to this. Um, this is- there’s no real conclusion either. I’m just basically telling you that I- I have a lot of ideas and this is how I- how I work through them, and I’m going to try to make a lot more videos with them, I guess. I guess that’s the important thing to take away.
