Church Of Me - classic or dud

G does want me to carry on with it but I agree with Paul, I think it's time to draw a line under CoM and maybe start something new - less frequent, perhaps, and maybe a lot different...but it's time to move on. It's done its job and every word in it will be published in book form next year.

On another level, I just want to get back to the joy of simply listening to and enjoying music for its own sake, without analysing every bar...and listening to it in company. It does make a difference.

:-) For this reason alone, I think you're doing the right thing all the way around.

in reply to Paul's post:

Worse than that, it would be unhealthy for me. It's amazing how differently I have felt about nearly everything these last two weeks or so - and then I realised I'd just gone back to feeling the same way about life and music that I'd always felt; but, as G pointed out to me the other night, that doesn't mean I've returned to being the same person I was two years ago. I am a different human being now; the person I used to be had been slowly dying and now no longer exists. The skin has been shed but the heart is intact.

The original long Scott Walker piece should be archived shouldn't it? If nay, tha' may 'ave t' wait for t' book! ;-)

Has inspired and continues to inspire me and my own (struggle) blog.

There will be more writing to come from me, and there will definitely be a new blog. No idea what I'm going to put in it yet except that it obviously needs to be a completely different beast from CoM - I was thinking perhaps of trying my hand, as suggested above, at some fiction, short stories, that sort of thing. Keep your eyes peeled for further developments. As for CoM, I'm not deleting it (if nothing else, for practical book-related reasons I need to keep it up there); so everything will remain available to read, so don't de-link me if you've got a link!

Another very long-term project of mine is to start a website - actual proper website with graphics, etc. - where I can post Laura's writing; so that, in a way, you can read the other side of the story. The only thing is that, in the substantial amount of writing she did do, there is nothing about music; it's mostly about art, plus some literature and philosophy. However, she was a zillion billion times smarter than me, so I'm sure it'll all be worth reading, when I eventually get round to doing it.

Marcello's publisher's rights dept to thread!

as matos says,the book will be great if only cause it'll be easier to read,and its also great to see your writing being aknowledged...
good luck with your future writing,hopefully you'll keep ilm informed as to its whereabouts...

:-) I can only put it simply: I very much look forward to this.

Reading this thread, it's clicked what you were talking about - duh, I'm slow sometimes. I'm glad that things are working out for you, I am glad that you are happy, and I continue to have faith in the redemptive powers of love.

http://cookham.blogspot.com/2007/11/closure-and-openings-i-began-this.html

Congratulations Marcello and thank you for all of the great writing you posted to CoM.

Fuck, he's taken up a staff job at the NME? I can see why he'd shut his blog down for that, but wow, I never saw that coming.

Wow, that's a shock. I wish he could still keep it going, though. Our sensibilities seemed to mesh the older I got and the longer I read him.

Where did he say he's taking up a staff job at the NME?

In that post I linked to he talks about how he just got married and how "the music can be written about in The Blue In The Air which serves only to mark the beginning of my writing about music as an ecstatically happy and thoroughly content married man . . ."

The Blue In The Air being his new-ish blog.

nme!?!?! color me astonished.

i don't know ian blair sleeps at night.