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I've been reworking a story that I wrote in college, The Aggerrejerant. It's alot more difficult to rework it than I thought. It took me ages to write in the first place. I'm not sure what it was about to begin with, I think I was hoping that things would come as I wrote, but it was forced the whole way. I've had a few moments where I can fill out pages, but trying to stick to this is really trying. I can't tell if it's good or not.
My mood really changes depending on the music I'm listening to. I guess the hypnotic state usually has to begin my matching the feeling that you have already (is that a fact?) so the rhythm must match my general temperament (and then I'm blaming the music for my own shifts).
I'd been testing the water with lastfm since last march, and i just got a subscription today (they never used to have the 30 song limit, I'm sure). I thought $9 for three months is pretty great. and it is, in a sense. You get pretty great access to sample some artists that I would likely not otherwise have the chance to hear if I weren't willing to send away for their album. But it kind of sucks that the player keeps cycling the same artists and songs over and over again. I know there are tons more available songs to play. (petty rant)
But, I guess what I mean to conclude here, is that the flavour of each song has had a pretty profound effect on me and its having an interesting (although detrimental) effect on my writing. I would give it up, but I'm still too excited about having music again.
I remember a drawing exercise in first year, how listening to Jean Leloup or Leonard Cohen or other lyric heavy artists somehow had the effect of having me draw abstract images, repeating a lot of shapes; while boards of canada and philip glass seemed to bring out writing and more specific images. that isn't really a controlled test or anything, but it was interesting to look at after it was done.
back to writing.
My mood really changes depending on the music I'm listening to. I guess the hypnotic state usually has to begin my matching the feeling that you have already (is that a fact?) so the rhythm must match my general temperament (and then I'm blaming the music for my own shifts).
I'd been testing the water with lastfm since last march, and i just got a subscription today (they never used to have the 30 song limit, I'm sure). I thought $9 for three months is pretty great. and it is, in a sense. You get pretty great access to sample some artists that I would likely not otherwise have the chance to hear if I weren't willing to send away for their album. But it kind of sucks that the player keeps cycling the same artists and songs over and over again. I know there are tons more available songs to play. (petty rant)
But, I guess what I mean to conclude here, is that the flavour of each song has had a pretty profound effect on me and its having an interesting (although detrimental) effect on my writing. I would give it up, but I'm still too excited about having music again.
I remember a drawing exercise in first year, how listening to Jean Leloup or Leonard Cohen or other lyric heavy artists somehow had the effect of having me draw abstract images, repeating a lot of shapes; while boards of canada and philip glass seemed to bring out writing and more specific images. that isn't really a controlled test or anything, but it was interesting to look at after it was done.
back to writing.