I'll probably eat junk food. Adventure Boy doesn't like junk food.
I'll make many phone calls, listen to NPR some, and AM radio some. Some crap fiction. Maybe some non-crap fiction. I've been reconsidering my commitment to crap fiction on the road, especially since The Nanny Diaries (which, incidentally, still makes my stomach hurt). I'm hunting for a copy of Into Thin Air by Krakauer.
Still haven't listened to it - but I think this trip is it.Right now, I'm listening to a 15-year-old from India- in the studio on the other side of the door - singing a well-written song, with a lilting voice, not unlike the singers from the Sundays, the Cranberrys and the girl who sang Kiss Me.. (6 Pence None the Richer?) a vocal quality I like quite a bit - the ultra-feminine aspect. I don't embody it, but I like to hear it.
Writing a good song isn't much of an anomaly anymore. Everybody's shooting for writing a great song, at one point or another - but it's a strange, changing world. Good writers are everywhere - artists are everywhere - it's an incredibly prolific-seeming period for American creative culture.
I postulate, on occasion, it's not unlike the dying tree that bursts with an enormous crop of glistening fruit as it's last, beautiful exhale.But those are in dark minutes. Maybe it's a brighter thing - maybe the technology that has allowed so many voices to enter the market will spark the collective imagination of this great human beast- to save itself - and exhale an unspeakably beautiful future?
I watched the documentary of Dr. Bronner, crazy soap guy, last night. I wanted a peek into the brain of the man with the diatribe-covered soap bottles. I was hoping for something other than egomanical nutjobness. Didn't get it - but others may argue.
Still - he had imagination, commitment, drive, and exhaled a thing into existence.
Maybe the beautiful future smells like peppermint.
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Traveling can be really a fun and also time of spending quality time with Family .This year i am moving to Cyprus for Beach holidays.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know... maybe I don't get out enough but I think there's a vast amount of mediocre music these days. I once heard a comment at a conference a while back from someone exiting a showcase: "That is a prime example of how it's too easy & too cheap to make a CD now." Indie bands & artists who have just put out their first CD are getting gigs too easily while really talented, experienced songwriters struggle. You may see more in your travels & in AB's studio, I don't know... but what I see when I chance a show with someone new, it seems that too often, making a simple I -IV-V progression into something creative & interesting is beyond most of them. That's why I value your work... really!!!
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