I have an angst.
And I'm not even sure why, exactly. The vacation's going fine, in fact personal things generally are more peachy than usual.
Perhaps it has something to do with the material a fellow Facebook fan kindly sent me from Bob & Ray and Tom. Basically a little pamphlet put out by their principal outside writer Tom Koch, in an effort to ensure credit that -- wasn't denied him, exactly. But it also can't be denied that Bob & Ray did have this stubborn blind spot, never confirming public assumptions that the whole thing was theirs, but never correcting them either.
Whether creative insecurity or professional shrewdness or some combination of the two, I don’t know. But feeling as I do about plagiarism and assorted offshoots I don't like the idea of my gentle heroes being mixed up in it nohow.
Perhaps it has something to do with downloading Janis Ian's At Seventeen the other day, and finally getting a good listen to the lyrics... thus getting a harsh reminder of the things nostalgia can hide. Quoting another Famous Wistful Song, Bob Seger's Against the Wind: "Wish I didn't know now/What I didn't know then..."
Or...perhaps it's just PMS.
At any rate, I thought I'd relieve it in the time-honoured LJ manner: posting emo poetry. I have this iPod app that works like a magnetic word set; the catch is it uses only words from Shakespeare. Does wonders for the artistic ego.
Beauty
that pure drawn
Injury
that thou recievest
Hurt of a
disarm'd self
Perhaps it has something to do with the material a fellow Facebook fan kindly sent me from Bob & Ray and Tom. Basically a little pamphlet put out by their principal outside writer Tom Koch, in an effort to ensure credit that -- wasn't denied him, exactly. But it also can't be denied that Bob & Ray did have this stubborn blind spot, never confirming public assumptions that the whole thing was theirs, but never correcting them either.
Whether creative insecurity or professional shrewdness or some combination of the two, I don’t know. But feeling as I do about plagiarism and assorted offshoots I don't like the idea of my gentle heroes being mixed up in it nohow.
Perhaps it has something to do with downloading Janis Ian's At Seventeen the other day, and finally getting a good listen to the lyrics... thus getting a harsh reminder of the things nostalgia can hide. Quoting another Famous Wistful Song, Bob Seger's Against the Wind: "Wish I didn't know now/What I didn't know then..."
Or...perhaps it's just PMS.
At any rate, I thought I'd relieve it in the time-honoured LJ manner: posting emo poetry. I have this iPod app that works like a magnetic word set; the catch is it uses only words from Shakespeare. Does wonders for the artistic ego.
Beauty
that pure drawn
Injury
that thou recievest
Hurt of a
disarm'd self