I’m a reader am I not? I'll admit it, I hate reading, but I enjoy the blissful sound of music. Writing and reading are both excellent, with writing you practice skills learned while reading. I appreciate other people’s works of literature, but at the end of the day I long to create more of my own work. I've been a writer of musically enhanced text since I was 12.
Most of the writers I've studied have a lot of let downs in their life. Isac Brock and Kurt Cobain both songwriters grew up fatherless in trailer parks. Isac would take pictures he drew from elementary school as a kid to his mother and she would tell him that there was nothing new. A friend’s mom told me she went to school with Kurt and said he was a total loser. It seems to me, to write something that means something to anyone. The writing needs to be felt and not just made up. You have to find a place where your soul, pencil, and paper come together to create an amusement to the mind. The place is your muse it can be a memory, a place, or anything that makes your words jive.
You have your ideas and I've got mine. I feel people want to believe all writers are respectable. I've known since I was young, you take the good people with the bad. Could you ever be made clean if you were never filthy? I've done my share of dumb things, but I don't go out and do stupid things on purpose. Social status means very little to me, but I hate disrespecting my last name. Writers are people just like us, they’re within us, and they just need to be found.
I won a contest once for poetry, but I cheated. I didn't realize I was at fault until after the teacher got the book. I was reading it and got the idea hey that sounds like one of those red neck jokes with a few lines changed. Good thing red necks don’t read poetry written by Jr. High kids. After that I've written mostly lyrics. It’s hard though everything seems like it's been written before. It takes a lot of time to write something good and it’s worth every second when you’re done.
As I find myself getting older, I've found myself content with simple things. I don't need something big happening in my life. I've notice I enjoy just sitting on the porch drinking a coke. As I drink my cola I notice the world around me, moving as to what seems to me like a conveyor belt. Are we all just products going through the motions, to one day be put into our boxes we call coffins?
"For the same reason no one ever pointed a telescope at the sun" -The Clash
I've always liked that quote it’s the idea that something’s just won’t be done, that can be done. I wonder what would happen if I gathered together enough courage and enough stupidity to point a telescope at the sun. I doubt I will ever do it but, it reminds me just because people say no one’s ever done it doesn’t mean it can't be done.
