Podcast Of Pointless Singing

I've been working on a long-ish piece on podcasting, for a presentation I have to give tomorrow. It's going fairly well, but it's taken quite a lot of thought and several revisions to get it right. This weekend, as I took a break, stretching my legs and making a cup of tea, having written for hours, my mind full with sentence structures and paragraph considerations and alternative grammar, I found myself making the kind of semi-conscious noises in my throat which we all make, and which, if you bother to notice them, are a kind of primitive singing. I had a moment when I suddenly heard myself, and in that moment, still humming and making up random stuff, I realised that I needed to make another kind of podcast altogether - The Podcast of Pointless Singing.

This morning, I was also struck by the synchronicity of the news that Katie Melua has just played the worlds deepest underwater gig. This piece of oil-sponsored nonsense just goes to confirm that the time is right for this cultural contribution.

By pointless, I don't mean bad; I simply mean that there is no reason or aim for the singing. It's as non-specific and non-commercial as you can possibly get. Babies do it all the time and adults do it more often than they know. It often accompanies some low level chore. People do it while driving, cooking, gardening, shopping, and most often, walking. The only rule is that it must not be anything really recognisable - I'm just after the mumbles and croaks and whines and hums which come along prior to anything making sense - does that make sense?

Although I only set this up on Sunday, The Podcast of Pointless Singing is for some reason already at the top of Google's rankings, if you search for pointless singing - although having said that, after tomorrow, since Mr Google loves this blog, it will probably be second, but hey! Brand new and number one is a good thing. I'm enjoying it while it lasts.


So, if you'd like to join me in this project, leave a comment here, and I'll certainly be interested to add you to this exciting new joint podcast venture.