
Episode 20 - Mike Viola
Sodajerker On Songwriting
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Am Jumping Forward to the Present Day
I am constantly reinventing myself, but not like a deliberately ai pening. I'm restless for expression and sometimes things are best expressed through your surroundings. i've tried to yank the whole idea of simile out of my writing because i'm speaking through metaphor. And so as a writer, i feel it's important to re invent your surroundings. It doesn't mean that much to me that i have a house, or that i'm facing west right now. But when i'm writing a song, it suddenly does. Because i'm looking around me. For things to inhabit, they need to be inhabited and populated by something. If im looking at the same four walls, then
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