Different types of musical clothes

So I've had, like, this incredibly lazy day, made all the more valuable by the simple fact that I'm back at work so I can feel muy thankful for time off. It's such a luxury.

Right now I'm making supper. Which is basically spaghetti but I'm using a different type of pasta. Right now the water's boiling.

Sounds good. Do you make your own sauce?

Oh, hell no. It comes from a can.

I gotta think of some new music to listen to when I go to bed at night. Any suggestions?

Is this music to fall asleep to, farmboy?

Yep.

You know, one of the things about living in an apartment is that I really have to be pretty quiet at night. Not that I'm a loud person; I mean, I'm basically pretty quiet and considerate, especially for a musician.

So what this means is that I just have to spend some time hunting on the internet. A lot of nights in the past few months I find myself listening to Ali and Toumani by Ali Farke Toure and Toumani Diabate. From Africa. Mali. Beautiful stuff, almost trance-like at times.

Instrumental?

Mostly. There's some singing.

Music is important when you're falling asleep. It's hard, at least for me, to find the good stuff.

I need to try to...well, not exactly copy it, but think about it when I'm writing. I need to try on some different types of musical clothes for a while...Again, not copying it,,but finding some way where the feeling of it is infused in my own music.

Is that hard, farmboy?

It's hard in that you want to be kinda influenced, and it's sorta difficult to do that when you're so fuckin' conscious of it. It's always best to be as natural as possible, to not force anything. I'm not the type who wants to control the music so much.

We'll see. Maybe I've planted a seed. I'm going to be writing more. You never know what's going to come up.

Souinds like an adventure, farmboy.

To be sure, dude. Music should always be an adventure.