I recently came into a Dilemma we were tasked with writing a story with flashbacks I choose to do mine based on the riots that happened during 2021-24. initially I thought yeaa fun I am bringing awareness and a cool story. Now after recent events in my life, I’m thinking it’s to radicalized for certain audiences and I feel as if I have turn down the “wokeness” in my writing. I never had to “code switch” (change my personality to make other comfortable) during writing I never code switched for anyone really, I feel as if I people should accept my personality for what it is. I feel bad for those so used to doing it they become forever changed stuck watching from the shell place outside of their mortal body hopefully when their spirits are released, they do in turn find comfort.
here’s a paragraph from said short story:
Those eyes. The cops had the same ones. I snapped back to reality, visibly shook. The girls scream started so get louder the cops screamed at her to stop resisting.I stepped up to the awful scene. I turned my back towards the cops and spoke to the crowd “everyone! Everyone! Let them do their job, stop yelling, and throwing stuff give them space!” I yelled. one protester screamed loudly “why are you defending them?” I turned I stood there then I approached him a screamed for everyone one to hear “I want to make sure your daughter got a daddy who comes back home!” The crowd grew silent. I turned towards the cops, my breath heavy, my fist clenched my throat felt like eve had bitten into it. I thought to myself “who am I fighting for? I then looked at the girl and then the officer and gather my courage to speak “Can y’all please just calm down, we don’t want trouble here. That’s a little girl man.” I said,attempting to calm them down. “Don’t you have kids?” I let it slip from my mouth not knowing how’d they react, the officers looked at me convection in their eyes“alrightI need everyone to back up! I will not hesitate to arrest people! This girl is going to be freed if anyone vandalizes or assaults the police again tear gas will be used to control the crowd.” one officer said taking the incitive the other officer looked at him with disgust. They released the girl from the handcuffs, and she fell into my arms I collapsed to the ground my head and underarms full of sweat my heart tired and my voice sore.
what do you think about this situation?
should themes be limited to make other people feel comfortable?
why are only some radical topics/speech accepted while other aren’t?
My struggles in writing that aren’t real problems but I want to talk about them anyways.
For reasons unknown, I barely wrote for an entire year, almost two entire years. My pieces I used to apply to MSA were the first things I had written in that whole time, all pieced together over the span of two-ish months. I actually have in a notebook, somewhere floating around my dorm right now, that had the single thing I wrote worth anything in that entire time.
Writing is pretty sentimental to me, and especially that piece and the subject its on—but I wont share what it is, due to how personal it is. It’s sort of the type of thing that I did love, then, and held very dear to me because it is literally the ONLY thing I could write for that entire portion of my life, even if I don’t care much for it now, or agree with it, or even resonate with it. I realized im a lot more personal than I previously thought, and I do overshare and infodump but its never really about the most deep, personal stuff to me and blah blah blah. I don’t like talking about stuff currently going on in my life, just stuff I did or that did happen in a somewhat comedic lense that cant currently effect me, and I really try to keep my personal thoughts and feelings out of things.
Really bad at explaining that, so I’m just going to jump into my point: I don’t write about my personal life.
Of all of my favorite, most memorable pieces, they were about something or someone else. My Polar Bear Haibun, Rose Oil, Metaphorical, 11:11, Tributaries, Constellations. They’re all great, and I love all of those stories and poems and whatever else so much, but they don’t really like reflect any of my inner beliefs. I think about so much, all the time, and none of it ever makes it into my work. Why is that?
A part of me is embarrassed. Like I’m scared of being wrong, like whatever I say could be taken the wrong way if I don’t over explain, but over explaining takes thought and impact away from other people. I think that’s why I love realism so much. You don’t ever look at someone scratching their nose and think they must think they have something on their face and they’re hiding it. You don’t think about it at all. You don’t think, are they embarrassed? Do they think they have food around their mouth and they’re hiding it?
You don’t ever think if someone’s worried that they’re accidentally flirting by twirling their hair, or if they look overly anxious by bouncing their leg, but these are always things people think about in themselves. You recognize it. It’s a way to hide. Or, maybe, forgetting to brush your teeth because you’re in a rush so you never stand to close to someone, or you’re worried if you missed a spot when brushing your hair and if you look a little crazy. If you’re like me, maybe your septum is crooked. Fix it. Oh, maybe your classes are lopsided. Are they too high? You get to say things, do things, that people never ever want or think of talking about. I think that’s because it’s so normal to you, but do you ever think about other people doing it? If you are, you’re incredibly vain, and probably judgmental. I know I’m judgmental.
But, in relation to that, I get too embarrassed to write about my personal life. I know that, realistically, there are probably entire communities full of people who think exactly how I do, or look at the world the same, or think about the same hyper-realistic things in art like I do, but who ever tells someone im terrified I have something in my teeth so I’ve been trying to look at my reflection in this one-sided glass window but the shade it too brown and I cant see and now im trying not to cry because that’s somehow worse.
It’s easier to keep my thoughts to myself than it is to share them, but at the same time I know that I’m not putting my best work out, because I’m not being genuine. But, I also feel like if I were to get extremely personal in my work, especially if that work was for literary, I would have to explain everything behind it and how it makes me feel and I DON’T do how things make me feel. I’d feel like I was venting in explaining why I wrote something, even if the memory is really happy or whatever. I also feel like if my short stories were any more personal then I’d end up, like, going 1000 and 2000 words over the limit instead of my usual 300-400 (sorry Dr Alexis). Or something.
This is danny’s (poor) attempt at discussing his issues with writing, and yes, before anyone says it or thinks it, I know that writing doesn’t HAVE to be personal. I just would like mine to be more so, I guess, even if I don’t exactly know how to do that. Dats all. I feel like I haven’t even said anything omg.
If you’ve heard me talk about my future over the past year, then you’ve probably heard a million different plans for my future. If it was possible, I would be both a doctor and a lawyer, but there’s no way I could make myself go through like 16 years of school. So, I’ve settled for being a doctor! I’ve also wanted to be a writer for years and have a million books I want to write, but I’m unsure of the time I’d have if I went through with that. So, I’ve decided to promise myself medical poetry!
I also want to live in Oregon with my best friend, and I want to live in a farm, maybe a ranch, maybe just have a very large produce garden. Oh and I wanna have a life in the city! How about life in a beach town? I want it all!
But realistically, I can’t do it all. I don’t expect myself to do it all. I don’t hold myself to expectations where I’d do all this in the one lifetime I have. In my future, I plan to be a doctor and poet and maybe live somewhere with a large garden, but I will not be angry with myself if I don’t reach one of those things. Sacrificing my passions and happiness to accomplish EVERYTHING would be pretty stupid. I’m not saying if that you the reader are stupid if you want to accomplish everything and sacrifice your happiness to get there, but I’m saying that if I myself did that it would be stupid.
I want to open a bakery too! I want to study history as a job! I want to be a musician and produce music! But honestly, I’m not going to do any of those things. I can read up on history if I have free time, and I can bake with my friends. I don’t write music, but I can always play guitar for a small audience. If there’s something that I really really want to do, I can make a simpler compromise! Again, I’m not gonna force myself into a box for my future.
This post for me is a little attempt at like hope. I want all of you to find things you want to do that may seem too big and then try to find some kind of compromise. We’re almost to the end of the year, and we’re reaching a point of where we’re going to be making big steps to our futures. Please, try to have a little peace in this last few weeks. Good luck on your exams, and good luck to your futures.
Okay, enough with the hopecore. Everybody watch Some Assembly Required on Netflix. It’s a kids show from Canada and I don’t think Netflix has all the episodes. It’s really dumb. ByeBye!!
As we all know by now I love music. It is what I need to survive actually. Without my music I am nothing . Anyways I decided I am going to do a bit 0f reorganization and declutter my Spotify. I really don’t have any good playlists at the moment and would really like to have some good playlists to listen to so we are going to fix this. I know most people sort songs by genre buttttt here me out. I don’t listen to songs based on genre i listen based on day and mood. I also listen to wayyyyyyy too many genres to sort. So I am going to start by making playlists based on activities and then go into moods. I am going to use this blog as an idea area for my playlists and then i will make another blog detailing my playlists and some of the songs.
Anyways so I have already tried to organize my playlists once this year but it really didn’t work and it just isn’t set up the way i would like. This is why we are going to revamp my Spotify. Now first i am going to list the playlists categories i want to make. After that i will condense them ( highlight them in groups to make it easier)and try and make them a bit better.
writing
Working/study
reading
driving
Cleaning
road trip / Felid trips
theatre / soundtracks
senior year
Childhood
17
new wave/ goth/ punk
Christian music (already made)
summer (already made)
rap / hip hop
opium ( I normally have one for the record label opium because my friend has a playlist for them aswell)
Divorced dad music (ifykyk)
emo/midwest emo
80’s music
90’s music
2000’s trashy pop
psychedelic rock
Now that I have named all the playlist I want to make I am going to try and condense them and name them.
senior szn ‘27 (senior playlist)
Down the rabbit hole (Roadtrips/ field trips)
Only 17 (17 playlist)
Lock in and focus (writing, work, study, clean, read)
No business like show business (soundtracks and theatre)
opium (songs from the opium record label)
80’s mixtape (80’s)
90’s CD (90’s)
Y2K (2000’s trashy pop)
Brain Static (psychedelic rock)
2009 Memorabilia (childhood)
THE AUX (driving)
Summer or (insert summer year) (summer playlist)
Spitting Bars ( rap and hip-hop)
punk/goth/new wave (I’ll just leave this as the title for now)
Some divorced dad in the 2000’s (divorced dad rock)
Blue Ruin (Midwest emo and emo. Reference to Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind)
Now that I have come up with the names I go to Pinterest and find some cool photos to add as covers. Normally I try to pick covers that go with the playlist in some way. After that I will begin sorting my music into their different categories. I will update on the progress later on. I just thought it would be cool to talk a bit about my process for organizing my playlists since I haven’t really found a lot of other people who talk about their playlists and their process for making them. Music is such a huge part of my life and so in turn playlists are a really huge part of my life so I thought it would be cool to just talk a bit about that. I think I will end it right here but if you have any questions or suggestions let me know.
Hello bois. Today’s blog is about the one and only Mac Miller. As we all know, I am OBSESSED with his music, his interviews, personality, photos, etc. Like y’all don’t understand how important Mac Miller is to me. But like, the topic of today’s blog is the misconception that Arianna Grande was the ONLY girlfriend that was truly important to him.
Now look, no hate to Arianna (a little hate because yknow, she split up a loving family and all) but Nomi was the girl for Mac. Y’all, now that I’m thinking about it, this blog is so parasocial for me to write, but I swear it’s not like that, I’m just… stating an opinion on a frequently brought up topic!
Let’s start off with the basics: Who is Mac Miller? What’s his relation to Arianna Grande? Who is Nomi?
Mac Miller is one of the worlds (in my opinion) best rappers out there. Per my previous blog, “GO:OD AM (A Mac Miller Lawsuit) which you can read here- GO:OD AM (A Mac Miller Lawsuit) – Literary Arts Blogspace , he released his first track at only 15, following with his first album KIDS at 18. Some of his most popular songs include: The Spins, Self Care, Weekend, and The Way. He unfortunately passed away on September 7, 2018, due to a drug overdose.
In his gone to quick life, he dated famous popstar Arianna Grande. There is more on this in my former blog mention earlier, but basically, they got together and stayed together for 2 years after making the song “The Way.” Arianna frequently mentions Mac Miller and how he was a huge inspiration for her throughout their friendship and relationship. She talks about how he influenced her to make RnB styled music, despite her fans not wanting it, and inspired her to be her authentic self no matter the amount of fame she acquires. Unfortunately, only 5 months before his passing, they broke up.
On the other hand, Nomi was Macs long term girlfriend, whom he met in high school. While Mac and Nomi kept their relationship pretty private, there are a few things we know. They got together around 2007-2008. While they stayed together until 2016, the cause of their breakup is commonly explained as this: “Fame, touring, personal challenges, and shifting life priorities reportedly placed pressure on their relationship.” https://www.legit.ng/ask-legit/biographies/1700922-a-deep-dive-mac-miller-nomi-leasures-long-term-relationship/
Mac frequently talked about Nomi in his music, and he gave us little glimpses into what was happening during the last weeks of their relationship. The verse that is often talked about when mention this song goes like this:
She said, "I want you back I can't be seen again with you and all of your friends It's so hard to pretend that it's like it was way back when I thought you used to be the one I guess you don't have time 'Cause all you do is grind, and it's got me lose my mind You just don't, don't, don't love me like you used to Think I'm bout to lose you" I'ma end this now before things just confuse you Kept breakin' promises you said you keep So you can leave a message at the beep
Through this, we can see that during the end of their relationship, Nomi may have felt unnoticed or ignored. While this is a common occurrence for celebrities and their partners, that does not mean she is in the wrong at all. In another song, ROS, it is coded with lyrics for Nomi.
You was here, I ran from you, scared to take that step But now that I am ready, you not, you up and left me Hope your new man make you laugh like I do I do not mean to worry you with my obsession, I just want to be beside you I'm too nice, and I had to pay that price Everything I do is wrong (Wrong), everything you do is right (Right)
This alludes to the fact that maybe Nomi was ready to fully settle down, and Mac just wasn’t ready for that. It also shows that maybe when Nomi moved on, he felt like he’d missed out or messed something up within their relationship.
Though, in the end, it is no one’s business who they are with, or what they are going through together, knowing context of what a singer is going through usually helps us get a better understanding and connection to their music.
As for Nomi, she is now married with a child! She is a model (which she started fairly young) and a very successful journalist. She has worked for big companies like Google, Adidas, and CBS. The first time she posted her husband was in 2017, and I am genuinely so glad she was able to move on and settle with the love of her life.
Below I have listed a few of my favorite blogs/articles Nomi has written. If you have the time, please check these out and support them!
I have phases where I listen to a song, love it so much, and loop it over and over again until I learned the entire thing. For days. My spotify wrapped is always interesting because of this, because theres always a song at the top I never remember listening to. When I was 13 (ish) I looped “Strawberry Blonde” by Mitski for not one, not two, not three… but four weeks (in dr phil voice). The surprising part? That wasn’t even the top of my wrapped.
As of late, I’ve tried to expand my music taste less and more so tried to get more familiar with artists I already know and love. This was the case with the album I’m predicting to be my favorite, “Class Of Cardinal Sin” by Covey. I have a very, very deep interest in the concept of “sin” as a whole, but ESPECIALLY the seven deadly sins, and this album kind of just scratches that itch in my brain. This is also the case with Rainbow Kitten Surprise, my ABSOLUTE all-time favorite band. I love them so dearly.
It started with one song, which happens to be their most popular, “It’s Called: Freefall”. This song, often shorted to “freefall”, comes from the Album “How to: Friend, Love, Freefall” and is the 4th of 13 in the album. This is, of course, their most popular album BUT! The third they’d released.
I’ve been spending a few days (I say this like it hasn’t been two weeks(edit: It’s been a month and a half, almost two months)) looping their albums, and I’ve JUST finished looping that one, but if I had to name a favorite album it’s definitely “Seven + Mary”. (Still not tired of it, just starting Love Hate Music Box)
I think it may be because I’ve loved RKS’s (Shortened from Rainbow Kitten Surprise, I am NOT typing that out 100 times) music for so long, but I find their music very very easy to listen to on loop how I normally do. Sometimes, sadly, I can’t loop my favorite artists and bands because they tend to find a sound that works for them and… never ever EVER stray from it. This is why I can’t listen to Lana Del Ray (? I have her blocked on spotify) or Chase Atlantic, sometimes even The Neighborhood and Arctic Monkeys. They have lots of music, yes, and it’s all good music, but it has a sound that’s too similar to their other songs. My other favorite bands, like The Crane Wives, do have this problem (from time to time) but by GOD it is not as obvious. Sorry. Little hater rant there. I never have this “Sound too same” problem with them, so it feels like im looping a hundred different favorite songs rather than one album.
Currently, As I am typing this, I’m looping their album “Love Hate Music Box”, (edit: I didn’t like it then, i’m locking in now btw this is danny a month later) and I think it’s a perfect example of what I’m talking about. It has an entirely different sound from, say, RKS the album. And both of those albums sound entirely different from “Seven + Mary”, even if RKS the album and Seven + Mary definitely sound more similar. Love Hate Music Box brings a sound from them that I’m absolutely not used to, and I’m still working on actively listening to this album and becoming as familiar with it as I am the others.
Something I think is funny, in relation to their albums, is that this is about the 3rd time I’ve looped their albums like this , but never with this dedication. I was so sure that I knew only a few songs in seven + mary, but I can sing most of them and if not I can recognize them. So far, from each album (that I’m versed in, don’t ask me anything past love hate music box) my favorites are Mr. Redundant, Seven, Shameful company, and Black and White from Seven + Mary. In RKS, Counting Cards, Lady Lie, Goodnight Chicago (probably my fav on the album) and an even tie for All’s Well That Ends and The Countdown, the two last songs on the album. In the album How to: Friend, Love, Freefall, my favorites are definitely It’s called: Freefall, Mission to mars, Possum Queen, and When it lands!!!! (I love this entire album so much it’s devastating). After that…. I don’t know enough of the albums yet to have a favorite, and that’s okay!!! Otherwise, my #1 favorite song from the entire band is Drop Stop Roll, one of their singles. Their singles are a whole other ballpark, one that I do not care to talk about (no vacancy, work out, and our song are all MASTERPIECES deserving of their own blogs).
I know that I really like music blogs, and that it teaches me a lot about bands I already know or bands ive never heard of, and I figured it’s about my turn to share some of my favorites. Don’t know if I’ll be continuing this blog…. But know I do love RKS and also a few other bands that DEFINITELY deserve more recognition. Kiss kiss, literaries!! See you whenever 🙂
This is me from a few weeks later, coming back and reflecting on this blog: I’m now going to properly rank them based on my favorites.
1 It’s Called: Freefall; 2 Drop Stop Roll; 3 The Countdown; 4 Mission to Mars; 5 Black and White; 6 Goodnight Chicago; 7 Shameful Company; 8 When it Lands; 9 Cold Love; 10 Fever Pitch or Holy War (these are the same song to me)
Honorable Mentions for: Polite Company, Painkillers, Possum Queen, and Devil like me plus every other song they’ve ever made (our song, dang, and SVO also belong here)
I’ve been randomly remembering a lot of stuff lately. I think I’m finally at a point where my brain can process things because we’re about to be out of school. Whatever it is, things from my childhood are sticking out like a sore thumb to me. I’m not going to go into my past traumas or anything for this post, but I am going to talk about the things that are more fun!!
To start this off, I randomly remembered a game from when I was little. Now, I’m not sure why I remembered this or what version it was, but there are these two games on the app store called “Bread Kittens” and “Bread Puppies.” I think I played the cat version when I was little. Earlier this week I re-downloaded it and YEESH. It hasn’t had an update in six years, and the entire layout is glitched to high heavens.
It is NOT supposed to look like that. This is a screenshot from my phone
This is what the game is supposed to look like, picture from the Bread Kittens fandom wiki. I honestly have no clue how in the world it got that messed up.
I don’t remember much about the game or how little me came across it, but I vividly remember the art style of the cats and the types of bread. I think the game came out in like 2014 or 2015? Whenever it was, it was over a decade a go. I miss that era… maybe because I was like six.
Another thing I’ve remembered recently was this story me and an exfriend started writing. It was BUNS I tells ya. I mean, we started writing it during quarantine and it was all we talked about in sixth grade. The characters were generic, the romances were weird and abrupt, and it was sooo edgy. I need to go back and remake the characters that I had made because they’d be good background characters, especially the twins who were I think the main characters?? I think the girl in the pair of twins was the main character. That and her girlfriend… who was an absolute Mary Sue
If you don’t know what a Mary Sue is, it’s basically an overpowered character who is loved by everyone and can do nothing wrong. They still pop up today, but they were especially common in like the 2000s-2010s in the scene of making fan characters for media. Sometimes they were original characters for their own stories, but even in their origin they were fan characters.
Their origin comes from Star Trek of all things. Honestly, if you look back far enough into something fandom related, it’ll always link back to Star Trek. Anyway, Mary Sue was a character made by one of the writers of Star Trek to mock the fans! There was a fanzine that let fans send in their own fanfiction to be published. Sometimes these fans would submit a story including an original character that was loved by everyone on the ship loved and that saved the day every time.
In the short story that was created to mock these “Mary Sues,” they kill her in the end. I think she also wins a Nobel Peace Prize.
Sorry for that little Mary Sue rant, but I’ve got one more thing that I’ve remembered. My obsession with zombies! My family has always been a big fan of The Walking Dead. Actually, my mom’s roommate in college was in the first season!! When I was little, I used to sneak into my parents’ room to watch with them. In my brain I mixed a few things up. I very vaguely remembered a character dying only because I remembered her shirt being on a zombie. The scene I remember from when I was little was completely different from the actual scene. Also, little me was BLASTING “The Zombie Song” by Stephanie Mabey. I miss this era </3
Okay, shut up Nick. That is ENOUGH. Yappatron is being turned off. This week’s short story is gonna be zombie related by the way. Haha get spoiled NERDS. Jk ily guys. Okay I’m done now. ByeBye!!
In my opinion we all create art and are art. We all create different things and express ourselves in different formats but each of us are still artists and art. I think that this is important to preface because I want to talk a bit about my creative influences and people I look up to as artists. I think it is important to know who you look to for creative guidance and inspiration. I believe that we all feed off of each others art and creativity in a way. Without this sharing and accumulation of everyone else’s art then there would be no art or creativity for that matter. So, this is why I think it is so important to find people you get inspired by or people you look up to creatively. I do think there is a limit though and some do cross it. Having these people to look to doesn’t mean copying. That isn’t art. Art is the accumulation of experiences, feelings, and ideas whether that be from you or others melded into a new creation, at least that’s how I see art. And due to this outlook on art, I think it’s very important to reflect and look at the people you find inspiration in and why. I think that helps your creative process the most so that is what I want to do for this blog. This is going to be me looking at my influences and finding the why behind the inspiration. I love doing this as well. It helps me feel very creative and it often helps me get out of a rut if all else fails. So, let’s begin. (I also encourage you to do this as well if you want. I feel it’s a great exercise to add to your creative process.)
Now first you have to identify the people you look up to. Just make a short list of who it is you have found to be inspiring or creative within the past month or two. They don’t have to be considered ‘Artists’. It just has to be people who you see art in.
My current list : Dominic Fike, Jack white, Jack Wolfe, Noah Kahan, Tim Burton, Avril Lavigne, Parker Kendal, Billie Joe Armstrong, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Tyler the Creator, Jeff Buckley, Mac Miller, Johnny Depp, Lin Manuel Miranda, Kyrsten ritter, Angus cloud, Lil peep, thelastcoffeebean (YouTuber)
Now not everyone you think is creative has to go on this list. Mine is a little long but its okay because then after you make the list you choose a couple if it is longer and use them. You research them and their creative process and styles. You try to get into their headspace and see why you think they are creative and why you admire them and even why you think they are ‘role models’ in the creative world.
So here are the three I am going to do in this blog, Dominic Fike, Noah Kahan, and Jack White. I decided on these three just solely on how recently I have felt that they have a creative spark that ignites mine. Sooooo now that I have picked the ones I am going to elaborate on I am going to write about each of them. And figure out why. Now I can do this roughly with these people without having to do a lot of research because I have already done so much on each of these people but researching does help and I encourage it.
Dominic Fike
Dominic Fike is a singer and musician. But I see him as an artist due to the way he goes about and sees making music. His favorite part of the process is writing lyrics. Everything musically he does he sees as an art and he sees a formula that most don’t see. I am able to see some of this formula myself. I like his writing style and how his lyrics flow together. I like how perfect yet imperfect his songs are. They are perfect in the sense of being music and being enjoyable and making people feel but they are imperfect due to the music standard and music theory. His music is abstract and that is what makes it so good. Its not only his music though that I admire creatively. The way he lives is very admirable and how I feel creativity breeds. He does what he does. He is obsessed with writing and writes constantly. Writing is who he is. He doesn’t like social media. He actually blames it for most of his issues. A lot of people hate on his use of autotune but in my opinion I think he uses it for vibe and vision not for distortion of his own voice to sound better. He uses his tools as tools not as aids or crutches. He also is very mindful. He tries to understand himself and he has self respect which I think many artists don’t have. I also feel that he uses his voice and position for good. Many think that music is useless and not a helpful profession but I disagree. I think it helps with feeling, empathy, self reflection, and a whole bunch of things that are needed. He is aware and present and that is so rare in todays society.
2. Noah Kahan
I also see Noah Kahan as more of a writer than a musician. His lyrics are so impactful and well written. He writes to feel and for others to feel. He writes to reflect on himself and his past. He has a unique song style that is almost like diary entries which grabs a lot of people’s interests. His songs are raw and that is what people like. People admire how real he is in this world where everything is fake. He also focuses a lot on mental health and has a project called the busy head project to aid others in struggles with mental health. I think its very admirable that he writes for others and uses his platform to help others. He also writes all the time. He never quits writing songs. That is his hobby which i fine cool. I find it cool that he found a job within something he sees as enjoyable and as a hobby.
3. Jack White
He was the lead singer of the white stripes and now makes his own music. He also has made his own record label called Third Man Records. He has been on SNL as a guest artist a hand full of times as well. He has spoken out about how in moderation technology is good and how if it has a purpose then it is okay but social media and things of that nature are useless and harmful to society. He is from an underground way of life and so he has an underground viewpoint on things. He voices political concerns when needed. He embraces creative process in every way possible. He understands music on a deeper level than most. He finds the process to be the most important part of music. He tries new things even if they aren’t new to everyone he sees it as new opportunity for himself. He is focused on his life and his art and his goals. He doesn’t care about others and I think that is important as an artist. I also think its nice to see someone with the point of view that art is reused. Creativity is reused art. It is taking someone else has done or an idea you get from someone else and making something completely different from that. I think that is interesting because most artists now days strive for everything new and everything ahs to be perfect and polished but that just isn’t the case.
So now that you have written a paragraph for each, you read through them and really try and understand why you look up to each one and see if anything they do you would like to incorporate or mold to fit your process.
Since this is getting really long I won’t put that here but that is one of the ways I find creativity and really try to understand why I find some people creative.
Art comes from art. Creativity comes from creative people. We gain these things from others that are creative. We gain creative ideas from art already made. We gain art from creative ideas made upon reflection of others art.
This blog contains a form of activity the whole class can take part in. If interested, please scroll to the bottom of the blog for the resources required and for the description of the activity!
Recently, dating back to a month or so ago, I’ve been drawing in a journal using only pencils and some charcoal here and there. However, I only ever drew on the left side of the journal whenever I had a spontaneous idea to draw something. Usually, I’ll have more visual art tendencies rather than a writer’s tendency.
Then something occurred to me.
I applied to both disciplines at the beginning of the school year and had got accepted into both but could only choose one, so I went with my first passion, literary. I love literary with all my heart; it’s always been a part of me and a part of my life but sometimes the literary brain needs something more, that’s where the journal came in handy.
Thinking about how the right side of the book had always been empty and dry whenever my drawings on the left were completed (and too tired most the time to draw another image on the right.) I decided one day to fill the right side of the book to be a form of writing that contributes to the drawing on the left, and then suddenly I had a new piece and a visual representation.
This idea has been with me for a long time now. It’s not every day I draw or write in the journal. I treat the journal as a collection of poems and small flash descriptions of what I have drawn or what I felt in the moment. I’ve also gotten many new ideas just from revisiting old drawings and poems I’ve written.
Some poems I have written have returned and have been added to my journal and instead of drawing first I entered the literature first and drew the visual representation last.
If you’re not much of an artist in the visual department, you don’t have to draw. Photography is another great utility for a writer. Almost anything can be pulled from a moment in a photograph, hidden feelings, secret messages, colors, and so on! (I also think photography would be a great idea for our class to practice as well. It’s a type of literary art and builds skill with having to use a camera and your surroundings to your advantage as a writer. This would be enjoyable for the Media discipline also)
Or you could just simply journal. <3
I think this is a healthy idea for our class and can be repeated throughout your life as a writer to log ideas and pieces in a creative way and to your aesthetic:
For example, a few fellow bloggers who I follow along with have very unique aesthetics and it perfectly fits their character and personality:
Sarah: Ladybugs, Love, kid cartoons
Nick: Westerns, Ghosts, Trans
Robin: Music, Theatre, friendships
Jaleigha: Red and Blue foods, Stitch.
Danny: Mythologies, Astronomy, Trans
So on, so forth!
At the start of the next school year, I would like to share some of the works I have done within the journal that will have hopefully be completed. You do not need a specific genre, or anything attached to the journals contents unless you want there to be one. This is all you! Your creativity and your ideas.
Activity:
Due to the fast-approaching conclusion of the junior year at Mississippi School of the Arts, I thought it would be a good idea for everyone who will be attending next school year to do something like a writer's journal. It's like Morning Pages, suggested from "The Artist Way" by Julia Cameron, but in my eyes a lot more engaging, fun and gives you a lot more time.
Resources needed:
. A journal, notebook, sketchbook, or pieces of paper in a binder. . Pencil, Pens, or other visual art utilities you'd like to use. . Camera/phone, for pictures if you want them.
ALERT/NOTICE: These are your journals; you do not have to partake in sharing anything you have written over summer break if you are not comfortable. If you would like to show you at least participated in the activity: simply place your thumb gently at the edge of the pages and pull back, the pages should flip rapidly. You DO NOT have to complete the journal it can be just a few pages.
Fill the journal with whatever comes to mind. If you plan to continue and make a series of journals, I highly suggest numbering journals in volume form with the date the year you began and the date year you ended with. If you think the journal needs such; Give it a title! Hell, slap some stickers on it, doodle in the corners, enjoy the process! Make it yours and something to reflect on when you grow as a writer and who you are and what you wish to accomplish in life!
Tip: It also gives you topics and ideas to blog about next year!
What I thought was possibly going to be the worst of the move was how there was not much to do in the country. I’m sure I ranted about it already and I’m sure I’ll rant again, but there’s really not much here compared to what was on the coast.
You’d be surprised to hear me say this is a good thing.
I’m not calling all of the coast “bad” in a sense, just the people. People and money as I had mentioned ran that small town into the ground. Despite all the new restaurants and bars a lot of it was just fake. You’d meet some drinking buddies but after a while they get bored of you and leave, that’s just kinda how it went.
Here, it’s a little different.
The country, although not as attractive as the coast, it has something more unique. Good, hard working people. Money isn’t something that you spend idly here. You work for it and use it in a way that benefits you and your loved ones or friends. Usually, country towns are strict on drinking and following the bible but most the time that’s usually strongest on Sundays since Brookhaven, the town itself, doesn’t sell beer on Sundays, but you will find good company in those who work just as hard as you most of the time.
Now to say is this the absolute dream? No. It’s not everyone cup of tea and sometimes expenses can be rough. Most country towns are working towns. Gas, food, stock. Everyone has to make a livin’ so expenses can be high but it’s a simple life.
I suppose why I fell so in love with the country so fast was because of the company we (my family) keep. My father had roots in this town so everyone knew him and he made life-long friends that I’ve met and love to this day. It’s honestly them that make me wish I was 21 a bit sooner, they’re good people and don’t lie to your face or care how thick your wallet is.
Country friends are a bit different. They rather have cook outs and grill steaks and invite a few friends over. Drink and have a good time just being in the company of each other then play golf the next morning. They include people, like me. Even though I’m younger and less mature they still asked about me and extended an invitation to me.
