The Crystal Lake
I've been very inspired to write lately, but not inspired in that way. I lack inspiration, I don't know what to write. I have three websites, and sometimes I write on my journal too, and my head can't find all the stuff to write on all those places. But when I say that I am inspired to write, I mean that I really want to write something. I've finished reading Lord of the Rings for the second time last month, and I'm reading the Silmarillion now, so I'm feeling this urge to write.
Tolkien said he couldn't remember a time when he wasn't creating his now famous imaginary world. He said it was always present in his head, and he was always creating languages and making up people who spoke them, and thinking about their history. So I thought that maybe for now I should imagine a place too, and write about it.
There's this band that I really like, called Grandaddy. They play sad bastard music '=) You know, like Belle & Sebastian, Coldplay, Radiohead, Travis, etc etc etc. They were even touring with Coldplay last year. Grandaddy is from Modesto, CA and their music seems to be deeply entangled with their history. The songs evoke images of dead machines, and machines that could have been humans and such. It reminds me of the replicants, and of the boy in A.I., a little bit of Terminator 2 and also of Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals.
My favourite Grandaddy album is The Sophtware Slump. There's a song on that album called "The Crystal Lake", and it's not my favourite song or anything. But it speaks of a place, and I think that's the place I want to write about. It makes me imagine a little village surrounded by nature, but it also makes me imagine machines and artificial intelligence.
I hope I won't give up writing about that before I even start.
Tolkien said he couldn't remember a time when he wasn't creating his now famous imaginary world. He said it was always present in his head, and he was always creating languages and making up people who spoke them, and thinking about their history. So I thought that maybe for now I should imagine a place too, and write about it.
There's this band that I really like, called Grandaddy. They play sad bastard music '=) You know, like Belle & Sebastian, Coldplay, Radiohead, Travis, etc etc etc. They were even touring with Coldplay last year. Grandaddy is from Modesto, CA and their music seems to be deeply entangled with their history. The songs evoke images of dead machines, and machines that could have been humans and such. It reminds me of the replicants, and of the boy in A.I., a little bit of Terminator 2 and also of Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals.
My favourite Grandaddy album is The Sophtware Slump. There's a song on that album called "The Crystal Lake", and it's not my favourite song or anything. But it speaks of a place, and I think that's the place I want to write about. It makes me imagine a little village surrounded by nature, but it also makes me imagine machines and artificial intelligence.
I hope I won't give up writing about that before I even start.