Facebook reminded me that on this day a few years ago I was on a songwriting trip in Mexico.

The inside joke with the band at the time was that beer tastes better in Mexico and maybe we could write some songs down there.

After a few starts and stops, writing together, writing independently, throwing chord progressions around and showcasing half-finished songs we finally came back to that inside joke and realized just how good of a title it was.

So, in a fit of inspiration over the course of an evening, we wrote "Beer Tastes Better in Mexico."

If there's a lesson to this story, maybe it's that you might have to struggle through a bunch of starts and stops and write through the garbage to get to the good stuff, but there's also a very practical lesson of being open and ready for inspiration when it strikes.

And always, always, always have your notebook or phone ready to take notes whenever a good line or title might hit you because you never know when you'll need it. 

If you don't write it down in the moment, I promise you will forget it.

Cheers,

Björgvin

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