No Music Afterall...
Well. Googliata is no more. I'm not a liar. It was there while I was bumming around the internet at work... and no more by the time I got up next morning. The Go Reflex is playing (a reunion type thing?) on June 1st down in Phoenix and it looks like Bob Hoag put the songs up for his California located member, Kevin to download the songs. (I know becuase he e-mailed this explination to my Go Reflex obsessed friend, Matt, when the downloads dissappeared the next day.) So...fuck... now I have to make my way to Phoenix by June... becuase I only saved the songs on temp files at work... on someone elses computer.
So, June 1st. Please go to the Modified Arts and pester this guy. Tell him to make more music. Or go and try to pick out which one in the crowd is the the writer of this blog. :^)
QUESTION: This is about creative process. I want all you artists out there to think about it. When we go out into our field of art there is often a very common practice of very talented people taking away their efforts from their personal work to involve themselves in anothers work. In art, perhaps you open a gallery or work to help artists you like get sold. In writing, you turn into an editor... or in screenwriting, you become a nameless scriptdoctor. In music, is it producing? I assume. I mean, in all cases, you are an advocate to make a superior product which isn't a bad thing... BUT, is it right to neglect your own work? I was reading an article in Poets and Writers that there are just too many writers out there. Yep. In the world of blogs and cell phones, even little old me can get an audience... somehow (read my sex blog www.whenwendygrewup.com if you dare) People are pushing their works so much that you can come across good material for free nice and easy. When a child was interviewed in this article, he said he liked writing more than he liked reading. Therefore, is it possible we have more writers than readers in the world? And therefore, even if there is good writing out there, there just isn't enough of an audience to "Make it" as a writer? My point being, the only profession that benefits from the saturation is the editor. The Producer. The Scriptdoctor. Etc. My point is, I was excited to come across the work of Bob's stashed momentarily on his website becuase...well, it's hard to find his work at all, even if it is old. Now, he's a producer and he does spend most of his time making money and helping people make good music. But his music has dwindled (dwindled in the fact that it is not avialable to me, the public...he could be a nutter that stores hundred and thousands of unheard Cd's in his attic, or whatever.) I'm going to LA in 2 months, and if I'm lucky, I'll get offered scriptdoctoring opportunities. And yes, I know my own personal projects will go to pot. I tell myself, well, this is better than my own work anyway, or I'm learning from this person... but the truth is, it would put me in the slow lane and creating a vicarious education instead of a direct one. Is this right? Should something like this in any art community be allowed? Does it let the quieter, more self depricating people get pushed aside? Feel free to talk amongst yourselves, children.
So, June 1st. Please go to the Modified Arts and pester this guy. Tell him to make more music. Or go and try to pick out which one in the crowd is the the writer of this blog. :^)
QUESTION: This is about creative process. I want all you artists out there to think about it. When we go out into our field of art there is often a very common practice of very talented people taking away their efforts from their personal work to involve themselves in anothers work. In art, perhaps you open a gallery or work to help artists you like get sold. In writing, you turn into an editor... or in screenwriting, you become a nameless scriptdoctor. In music, is it producing? I assume. I mean, in all cases, you are an advocate to make a superior product which isn't a bad thing... BUT, is it right to neglect your own work? I was reading an article in Poets and Writers that there are just too many writers out there. Yep. In the world of blogs and cell phones, even little old me can get an audience... somehow (read my sex blog www.whenwendygrewup.com if you dare) People are pushing their works so much that you can come across good material for free nice and easy. When a child was interviewed in this article, he said he liked writing more than he liked reading. Therefore, is it possible we have more writers than readers in the world? And therefore, even if there is good writing out there, there just isn't enough of an audience to "Make it" as a writer? My point being, the only profession that benefits from the saturation is the editor. The Producer. The Scriptdoctor. Etc. My point is, I was excited to come across the work of Bob's stashed momentarily on his website becuase...well, it's hard to find his work at all, even if it is old. Now, he's a producer and he does spend most of his time making money and helping people make good music. But his music has dwindled (dwindled in the fact that it is not avialable to me, the public...he could be a nutter that stores hundred and thousands of unheard Cd's in his attic, or whatever.) I'm going to LA in 2 months, and if I'm lucky, I'll get offered scriptdoctoring opportunities. And yes, I know my own personal projects will go to pot. I tell myself, well, this is better than my own work anyway, or I'm learning from this person... but the truth is, it would put me in the slow lane and creating a vicarious education instead of a direct one. Is this right? Should something like this in any art community be allowed? Does it let the quieter, more self depricating people get pushed aside? Feel free to talk amongst yourselves, children.
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