Saturday, May 30, 2015

#39

Quoting two LA rockers from the early 80's:  David Lee Roth "I hear all these songs about falling in love and falling out of love, so I decided to write a song about robbing a liquor store"; Frank Zappa "One can be assured that a love song will be much more popular than a song about celery".  Arlo Guthrie has compared song writing to fishing.  Some you catch, some get away, and some you wish you had let go.  Finally, Holst said "Never compose anything until you can not compose it".
 To me, art is about being creative.  Creativity relies on the intent of the creator.  If an artist creates something new, that the artist has never seen, heard or heard of, then it is art.  Creating something new van take years, or minutes, depending on the inspiration and perseverance of the artist.  There are no limits to creativity other than the restrictions placed on the artist from within the mind of the artist.  Inspirations can come from any source.  Books, movies, events, interpersonal relationships, bad days, food, ect.
I have recently become ill, and I am in need of a certain medical procedure.  It's an interesting procedure that I will be asleep for, and will find out what is next on the agenda after the all of the results are in.  As far as the procedure, it takes one day at home to prepare for it.  So in the name of artistic creativity, I decided to do a piece of music for it. "Music to accompany a colonoscopy prep" is almost complete.

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