Strange notions in my brain
There are a few movies I've seen before that I really feel like watching right now - The Matrix, Stir of Echoes, Terminator 2: Judgement Day. I don't know why. Ok, I do, but it's still a bit random.
I've been listening to my Metallica collection over the last day or so, so far I've been through ...And Justice For All, the black album, Kill 'Em All and Load. I'm probably going to skip S&M because my copies aren't too good. It's really taking me back to high school; I listened to a lot of Metallica back then. But it's also putting me in the mood to write. I don't know if it's just that I'm in that sort of mood, or the music really is making my creative urges surface again (I preferentially listened to Metallica when I was writing a very long story in year 10), but it's rather nice to have all these ideas in my head. Not that I really feel like I've got the time to jot them down. I don't like jotting down. I prefer to sit down and flow for an hour or five. But maybe I'll have to settle for scrawling down a line or two as they pop into my head or when I have time, rather than when I want to.
Also rather strange is that I've been coming up with poetry recently. I'm not normally very poetic, I usually prefer prose. But...the complex imagery and investment of personal meaning that I associate with poetry (and justify my inability to compose it with) seems to be coming out. Maybe I'll even write some down.
...if I remember it on a day when I actually am allowed to write. SO FRUSTRATING TO HAVE IT PERFECT THEN FORGET IT BEFORE I CAN WRITE IT DOWN!
edit: Something I didn't mention about listening to metal is that it tends to make me crankier. I get angry really easy and make up violently reactive scenarios in my brain when people piss me off. Not that I've ever acted on them. But I think it! (admittedly I've been moody all day. But my point still stands!)
I've been listening to my Metallica collection over the last day or so, so far I've been through ...And Justice For All, the black album, Kill 'Em All and Load. I'm probably going to skip S&M because my copies aren't too good. It's really taking me back to high school; I listened to a lot of Metallica back then. But it's also putting me in the mood to write. I don't know if it's just that I'm in that sort of mood, or the music really is making my creative urges surface again (I preferentially listened to Metallica when I was writing a very long story in year 10), but it's rather nice to have all these ideas in my head. Not that I really feel like I've got the time to jot them down. I don't like jotting down. I prefer to sit down and flow for an hour or five. But maybe I'll have to settle for scrawling down a line or two as they pop into my head or when I have time, rather than when I want to.
Also rather strange is that I've been coming up with poetry recently. I'm not normally very poetic, I usually prefer prose. But...the complex imagery and investment of personal meaning that I associate with poetry (and justify my inability to compose it with) seems to be coming out. Maybe I'll even write some down.
...if I remember it on a day when I actually am allowed to write. SO FRUSTRATING TO HAVE IT PERFECT THEN FORGET IT BEFORE I CAN WRITE IT DOWN!
edit: Something I didn't mention about listening to metal is that it tends to make me crankier. I get angry really easy and make up violently reactive scenarios in my brain when people piss me off. Not that I've ever acted on them. But I think it! (admittedly I've been moody all day. But my point still stands!)