Give Me a Han.

"I am thinking about starting a blog."  Yes, I know I am 30-years old and I am fully aware I am late to the blog party but I think this...woah, Blog Party, that sounds like a name of a band or something...  Must be British.

Basically, this blog will serve as documentation for my songwriting in 2013.   My passion has always been performing.  Whether it be portraying The Dentist in a high school production of "Little Shop of Horrors," or jumping up and down like a Mexican kangaroo jacked up on 5-hour energy on stage with my band, Whitman, I'VE ALWAYS AND WILL ALWAYS LOVE TO PERFORM.  I write that in ALL CAPS because I swear by those words.

Over the course of the last year, nine months, two weeks, and four days or so, I had not written a single song.  After Whitman had released our Grammy-award winning album "Weekends" back in April of 2012,  I could not write a song to save a pussycat out of a three-foot tree.   I had hit the wall to end all walls.  I felt like this...

"The songs will come," my mother told me during the Christmas break after I had explained how frustrated I was because of the nearly two-year hiatus from writing.  I thought about those words every day leading up to the end of 2012.  My New Year's Resolution was to do one thing and one thing only.  Eat as many tacos as I possibly can in 2013.  I kid, I kid.  MY RESOLUTION WAS TO WRITE THE MOST SONGS I HAVE EVER WRITTEN IN A SINGLE YEAR.  

I couldn't force it though.   Work (Teaching Assistant/Basketball Referee-Extraordinaire) was starting up again.  The days were long and tiring.  If working with high school students with special needs doesn't wear you down, getting verbally abused by basketball moms will.  Then, during a Girl's Varsity game at V**********t High School, IT happened...

~Ram