I prefer the classic "pace in circles, tug on hair, mutter under your breath" form of artistic frustration.
It's good to have cargo. Makes us a target for every other scavenger out there, though, but sometimes that's fun too.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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Connie Neil - Mar 05, 2003 5:09:10 pm PST #3917 of 10000
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deborah grabien - Mar 05, 2003 5:14:23 pm PST #3918 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Plei, I'm not saying pain and art can't or don't go together.
I am, however, saying that not all art is necessarily the direct product of pain and suffering. Some is, some aint, some is just more like "damn this is hard work I think I want to go shopping for a few hours now".
It's the whole "I must live in a garret in Paris and write Serious Things and say no to my quarterly dividends cheque because Lunch is the Enemy of Art" thing that leaves me giggling wildly. Whenever I bump into it, I want to offer the person doing it their choice: either a good pasta dinner and an accompanying lecture on Getting Over the Gertrude Stein Reincarnation crap, or else a crowd of sarcastic people clapping sardonically and saying things like "declaim!"
P.M. Marc - Mar 05, 2003 5:17:33 pm PST #3919 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
It's the whole "I must live in a garret in Paris and write Serious Things and say no to my quarterly dividends cheque because Lunch is the Enemy of Art" thing that leaves me giggling wildly.
Okay, well that's funny. That's like the Gothic Forehead Staple Dance.
Steph L. - Mar 05, 2003 5:20:02 pm PST #3920 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
the Gothic Forehead Staple Dance.
Please for to explain?
deborah grabien - Mar 05, 2003 5:21:03 pm PST #3921 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
That's like the Gothic Forehead Staple Dance.
(wiping tuna fish off the keyboard, the monitor and the Persian cat)
P.M. Marc - Mar 05, 2003 5:21:31 pm PST #3922 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Umm.
Take hand. Staple--palm out--to forehead. Put on best gloomy "woe! woe!" expression. Sway back and forth to Bela Lugosi's Dead.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Atropa - Mar 05, 2003 5:23:02 pm PST #3923 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Take hand. Staple--palm out--to forehead. Put on best gloomy "woe! woe!" expression. Sway back and forth to Bela Lugosi's Dead.
If you can manage to be writing whiny pretentious poetry about how no one understands you and the darkness in your soul with the other hand, you get bonus points.
Steph L. - Mar 05, 2003 5:23:03 pm PST #3924 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
You now have my khaki-wearing self howling with laughter.
deborah grabien - Mar 05, 2003 5:24:52 pm PST #3925 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
"Numfaaaaaarrr!!!"
Consuela - Mar 05, 2003 6:01:32 pm PST #3926 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
not all art is necessarily the direct product of pain and suffering
Righto. Sometimes writing is like sawing through concrete with a butter knife. Sometimes it's not. The best story I ever wrote, I wrote in 45 minutes. The story I'm most proud of writing took me three months and lots of frustration. ::shrugs::
Numfar, do the dance of Woe Is Me!
Heh.