Most songwriters tend to think the world revolves around such global-impacting issues as: 1. Will Ms. Big-Big-Big Star record one of my songs on her next album? 2. Will Mr. Big-Big-Bigger Star record one of my songs on his next album? These questions are with them, morning, noon and night. The President resigned. Who cares? "Did you know that my song is on hold over at CBS?" We had a small atomic war with Lithuania this morning. "So what - I got the next Janet Jackson single". Not the most caring about everyone else group of people. So, keeping this in mind, a small earthquake should have little impact on songwriters, right? Think again. Scared the piss right out of every writer I know. Come to think of it, not only the piss but just about every thing else they had ingested over the previous 24 hours came out. Kind of like Mother Nature don't care diddly about music. The nerve of her. The night of the "not quite Big One" I was working on a song for two of my up and coming clients. These...

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