tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5328427.post6880549715302275619..comments2024-01-05T05:09:01.673-05:00Comments on the woodshed: " Some people have a way with words, other people just...uh...don't have a way, I guess"Rev.Paperboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14561796588927776371noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5328427.post-51493733123733771182013-06-07T14:59:19.296-04:002013-06-07T14:59:19.296-04:00could not agree more Democommie, you can't pro...could not agree more Democommie, you can't produce art for anyone but yourself or it isn't art, it's a consumer product. That said, there are some people who can turn out some pretty artfully made consumer products -- I'm thinking of great pop songwriters or illustrators who paint pictures to match someone else's writing or good commercial television shows or movies. Sometimes it is a fine line.Rev.Paperboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14561796588927776371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5328427.post-40758590526909872132013-06-07T09:16:24.993-04:002013-06-07T09:16:24.993-04:00Dear Kevin,f/k/a Reverend Mr. Paperboy Sir*;
I r...Dear Kevin,f/k/a Reverend Mr. Paperboy Sir*;<br /><br /><br />I read the piece and focused on this:<br /><br />"Sometimes you have to eat shit in your life, so you eat it."<br /><br />Years ago, a friend of mine suggested that I might have to do some shit eating, in order to achieve the satori of corporatist synergistic, um, things. <br /><br />I told him the following:<br /><br />"If you eat ice cream every day, at some point in time, it will begin to taste like shit. If you eat shit, every day for the rest of your life, it will NEVER taste like ice cream.".<br /><br />I have been fortunate enough to never get too deeply enmeshed with activities like earning a fucking living (it does have its downside). <br /><br />I write poetry, a lot of it truly bad. One of these days--if my brain ever stops spinning like a top--I might get around to publishing a book of my poetry, illustrated with my own photographs. I expect that it will be ignored or, if it's deemed "good", stolen by someone and repackaged as their own. That is one of life's other facts. If you do good work and you do it outside the environment of mainstream publishing you should expect it to be ignored or stolen. <br /><br />We don't write for anyone but ourselves, until we look to make a living from it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />* At least by this humble but SWAGGERING scribe.democommiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714733977927594559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5328427.post-40596606087253617372013-06-06T15:45:02.875-04:002013-06-06T15:45:02.875-04:00"No one decides at age 45 to suddenly quit th..."No one decides at age 45 to suddenly quit their job as a marketing manager and pursue their dream of playing centre for the Montreal Canadiens,"<br /><br />Have you not played Old Timers hockey? Honest to Christ, the way these guys spear and cheat, you'd swear there was a scout in the stands, just waiting to snatch them up. Same goes for any rec sport it seems. Lighten up Francis.<br /><br />Anyway, great post. You have way, even though there were too many notes.Alexis Shabadoo Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14649927883619602328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5328427.post-49670047367491326892013-06-06T08:14:55.606-04:002013-06-06T08:14:55.606-04:00Hi Kevin,
I enjoyed this latest blogpost about cre...Hi Kevin,<br />I enjoyed this latest blogpost about creativity. I read the link you provided and agree totally. That perspective sums up well my take on creativity. I’m 64 years old and been doodling and colouring for going on 50 years simply because I have to. I never expected to make a living being creative so I found other ways to survive. Quite a few ways actually, some of them even paid well. :) It is sometimes hard for a person to escape the dream and some never do. The old bromide, “Stop and smell the flowers” applies equally well to the desire for fame and fortune in one’s particular area of creativity.<br />theohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02648489093666189741noreply@blogger.com