Comments on: What a gravy train https://www.lukehurley.co.nz/2015/03/16/what-a-gravy-train/ original music Wed, 27 Dec 2017 05:37:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Patrick https://www.lukehurley.co.nz/2015/03/16/what-a-gravy-train/#comment-5061 Sat, 28 Mar 2015 23:51:27 +0000 http://www.lukehurley.co.nz/?p=2304#comment-5061 Hi Luke it’s Patrick from 10 years ago on Queen Street.. I’m still back in Canada and think of those days often. We went to The Pretenders together and hung out quite a bit in those days. Your music, point of view and the way you look at life have always inspired me. I like to read your blogs too. I even quote Pascal from time to time. Do you remember me? Please keep creating and doing it your way (to quote our Burger King) it matters. Yeah the Eagles are great but what have they done lately?

]]> By: potato sack perry & the turnips https://www.lukehurley.co.nz/2015/03/16/what-a-gravy-train/#comment-5058 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 02:06:01 +0000 http://www.lukehurley.co.nz/?p=2304#comment-5058 hi Luke
finally good to see another posting bro. in my opinion, the blogs that get lots of feedback are the ones that are specifically concentrated on one thing only. eg a lady recently got hhheeeaps of feed back after deciding to read one book from every country in the world.
also you need to be like a periodical and not so sporadic, that way people will really look forward to reading it. Lots of people watch shortland street, why? cause it’s on every weeknight and habit forming. write your blog MINIMUM once a week, although once a day is better. post it at the same time each day so people can look forward to it.
pick ONE aspect of your career and really hone in on it. for example you could talk to one person on the street every single day for 365 days. ask each person the same 3 questions eg
1. are you happy?
2. what are your dreams?
3. what are you doing here?
take a photo of each and every person.
A guy from Japan came and stayed at my house recently, his blog was number 5 most read in Japan or something like that. Why? I don’t know, but his blog was deeply personal and it showed a little glimpse of NZ that Japanese people might not otherwise see. Also he photographed HEAPS of people holding up a whiteboard with their favourite quote or message. Also, and perhaps most importantly, he POSTED REGULARLY. This is your first post in how long? 4 months?
writing a blog is like writing a song…people think it’s easy but it’s harder than you think. the above posting was kind of okay, but it tells me nothing new, I would expect you to say that about the eagles. how long did it take you to write this blog? 10mins?
why don’t you spend two hours a day writing, an hour in the morning when you get up and an hour before bed. You’ll soon have lots of good material.

You could also increase your readership by about 10,000 percent if you got a little help from your friends and translated your blog into Chinese. You might even get a bit of a following going in China.

“It don’t take Einstein to work out that there is something overshadowing music here.” …? and what is it, why is it? Please elaborate. Analyze not only the eagles but the punters. why do they go there?

Finally, a lot of your posts are very outward looking glimpses of the world outside. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WORLD WITHIN? How are you really feeling? What’s it really like to be Luke Hurley? What are your fears, dreams and aspirations.
I gave my life story to you and about 5 other people and mostly got good feedback. Maybe you should try the same.
IF IT’S DEEPLY HONEST AND IT SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF YOU TO PUT IT OUT THERE, IT’S PROBABLY GOOD WRITING.

that’s all for now
a thousand blessings on your family

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