The world according to Lenny Smallman

Hi… I’m Lenny. This is my blogging site where you can watch my video podcasts or read about life, the universe and how it never quite goes the way you want it to. You can also listen to some of my songs if you like. [Well, it worked for the Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen…]

Why do this, when there’s already so much stuff out there that doesn’t seem to mean very much? Our days are filled with useless, inane bits of information, and we’re all struggling to get by whilst making sense of it all. I recently got into a conversation with a mate - we were talking about what you need to get through all the daily shite, all those crutches we use to get through the hard times; coffee, texting, daytime tv, religion, drugs, celeb magazines, meaningless sex, alcohol, fast food… the list goes on. And I realised for me it pretty much always comes down to the same thing - songs… Wherever I’m at, no matter how bad it gets, there’s always a song that can take you out of the mundane, where you feel totally understood and it all suddenly makes sense for a couple of minutes at least. We’ve all got our favourites and they’ll all be different [I’m not going to bore you with mine], which is pretty amazing when you think about it. All those emotions packed into 3 or 4 minutes of a unique combination of notes, sounds and words.

Because, the thing is - what it comes down to basically… none of it does make any sense, does it..?

When you get to be a grown-up you’re suddenly expected to know all the answers because grown-ups know everything. But we don’t really know anything at all do we, other than what the songwriters have taught us; ‘The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind’ [Dylan]; ‘Life is what happens when you’re planning other things’ [Lennon]; ‘You can’t always git what you want’ [Jagger]…

I’m going to keep this updated every day, so keep checking it out - and add comments of your own if you like. When our work is done, we’ll package it all up - and sell it onto our kids saying “You want to know what it’s all about? Read that, all the answers are in there… Some of your planes will come down…”

So please come back and visit again soon.

This one’s for all you dreamers out there…