Frankenstein Plays Bass: You know, I’ve not had time to read a lot in so long, but the first book that came to mind was Frankenstein. This mother of all Science Fiction books, often mistaken for horror, is actually a story within a story with … Continue reading What’s Your Favorite Book?
I like this – posts like this make me wish that I could “favorite” individual blog posts. If you’re a creator, it’s a must-read.
The best creations in the world come from exploring an emotion. Emotions tie us all together. We’re all capable of happiness, sadness, dismay, amusement, love, fear, anger, hope. They’re a universal constant we can use to create in a voice that is our own but a work that works in any language. We use our creative medium of choice to express those emotions. The most we can do in this world is reach out with our own emotions through our creations and try to touch the souls of others.
I keep coming back around to something Jean Luc Godard said in an interview. He was talking about ways of making a film and he talked a bit about his own way of creating. He said, “…It usually starts with an abstract feeling, a sort of strange attraction to something I am not sure of. And making the film is a…
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Some things make you feel like you’ve done well. Some things feel like its worth waiting for results. My three sisters garden is becoming something like that. This morning I stepped out of the house on a very tight time remaining to punch into work … Continue reading Squash flower
Recently I was out running and listening to one of my go-to podcasts, Stuff to Blow Your Mind. This is a show in which the hosts, Robert Lamb and Julie Douglas, talk about really interesting topics. The June 25th episode was called “Clocking In”, and it was about the nature of space and time. That show has been sticking with me all week, and it has been rolling around in my mind, throwing up great showers of sparks in my imagination.
Not far into the show I began to imagine space and time as Siamese twins; they grow, and are inextricably linked, together. Realizing I was beginning to dream up a mythos, I started to go with it. They weren’t just Siamese twins – born to a mysterious mother with darkness in her heart and chaos in her soul, she exists vicariously through her daughters to escape the madness of that chaos and the loneliness of that darkness. In this way she has found a creative outlet, a way to express herself, from the looping whorls of galaxies all the way down to sub-quantum interactions.
Interesting – last night I was reading the Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson and I found an interesting analogue in the story of Mary Barnes, who was locked in a state of schizophrenic madness, institutionalized, and finally allowed to express herself through the art of painting. I’ll spare you the unsavory details and highly recommend reading the book instead, but according to the author, “[h]er paintings were greatly admired in he 1960’s and 1970’s for illustrating the . . . complicated inner life of a schizophrenic.”
Right after we’re done being all patriotic and whatnot about our American heritage, we might find ourselves needing another holiday to taper us off into the rather droning days of Summer. Summer is my favorite season, by the way, so I mean no disrespect but … Continue reading Happy holiday –
Having one of those days.
You know the ones, where you come in to work and right away you have to fix a bunch of stuff, and then you find a bunch of stuff that’s wrong when it causes your machine to stop, and you have to spend a bunch of time fixing the worst error in the history of CNC plasma punches… Yeah, it’s one of those, and for some reason I’m just not feeling it. The prompt blows, for one thing. Time constraints is another. I demand a full-blown Pulitzer winner in a 15-minute period, darn it, but it’s not in me. Not today.
Like, why would I want anyone to not read my blog? that’s the prompt, you know, “who’s the one person you don’t want to read your blog.” The moment you name them, you might as well be aware they’re reading it. Voldemort. Sauron. My mom. The CIA, the NSA, the NBA, and ASCAP. President Nixon, you better not be reading my blog!!
“Arooooo!”
Yeah, says you. Anywho, here I am trying to wind up light-speed thumbs and finding myself woefully short of a sonic boom. I want everyone in the world to read this blog, because I have nothing to hide, a lot to say on most days, and no easy way to express myself in person. I’m just trying to get the job done here, folks.
But since I’m a little scandalous, I’ll pass on what other bloggers have to hide:
There is a subject that comes up from time to time in conversations that my wife and I have on economics, finances, and the like. We will be discussing this or that issue, and sometimes she will say that we should go back to the … Continue reading Trade for your life!!!
If you have issues reading today’s Saturday Jams on your phone, check it out on a computer. For some reason, it’s having issues for reasons that I have not yet figured out. I assure you, the post has content.
So! Just two days ago I’m willing to bet that most of us got together with friends and relatives, drank generous amounts of beer, ate prodigious amounts of charred animal flesh and mayonnaise-bathed boiled potatoes, and enjoyed a fantastic light show when the sun went … Continue reading Saturday Jams: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
I was going to post this long piece on the importance of freedom and the oppressive religious views that impede freedom. It was going to be good and sort of point to the idea that religious tolerance would do much to ease the path to a harmonious planetary civilization. Kind of a no-brainer, but a topic I like to ruminate upon and one that I think makes for good discussion among enlightened individuals.
Instead, I stayed up late last night figuring out how to unlock and root my Nexus tablet. I sort of got off track from just deleting the Facebook app, ha ha! Then it was four in the morning and I thought, ‘there goes my blog post’. But it’s no big deal. I like to modify my devices and whatnot because I’m a huge believer in freedom. I believe in top-down laissez-faire administration, so that the most power rests with the individual, then the state, then the nation. If you buy a piece of equipment, you should have the right to modify it to suit your needs, am I right? So it’s totally in the spirit of Independence.
Ironically, after the parade we forewent fair food for a decidedly ironic sort of fare: Chinese.
Let freedom ring, my friends; enjoy your weekend.
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