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Entries for April, 2011 in Musings On Muses
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By joseexist in Musings On Muses
Here’s a little sweat, rant, spill, or whatever it’s called when you get things off your chest. The air conditioner went out so I had to get a new one. There goes another monthly bill. I pulled the dead one ...
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"It's a Pretzel-Twist of Concrete Vagueness", or the opposite thing...or...
By joseexist in Musings On Muses
How do you describe a thing you created to the world at large? The muses have moved you to produce something. It stands there in the crowd with all the other things artists have created. Along comes someone or something ...
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From There, To Here, To Where?
By joseexist in Musings On Muses
“The dawn of man” (to be politically correct:”The dawn of humankind”) whoever coined that hogwash of a statement never saw the real future approaching. Here was a creation, or chance conglomeration of cells, (however you want to look at it), ...
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Dreams, Fear, and the Future...
By joseexist in Musings On Muses
Fear of losing a thing can have a very profound effect on how you regard it. Taking something for granted can evaporate as soon as fear inspires a scenario to play thru your mind. Whether it comes from a dream ...
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By joseexist in Musings On Muses
After expending the blood, sweat, and tears to bring an inspired idea into reality, what is left for an artist to do? There is the ‘product’. It can be promoted aggressively or with a simple modicum of passion. It can ...
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By joseexist in Musings On Muses
The record company wanted the album yesterday. I wasn’t lollygagging about it. Thirteen songs were in the bag. I just needed the fourteenth to complete the package and close the circle on the theme. I don’t do ‘filler’, ever. When ...
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By joseexist in Musings On Muses
...One thought lingered at the periphery of my mind, wanting in. I was reluctant. I was sure that if I let it in amongst all the other ideas, brainstorms, and daydreams, I would surly loose all my physical senses. Blindness, ...
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The World Still Gains Something In The End
By joseexist in Musings On Muses
Failure and success both come with emotional baggage. Suffering either circumstance is always optional. The emotions that can accompany each can be applied to the other. Just because success is a good thing does not mean that the artist will ...
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By joseexist in Musings On Muses
I think humans can only create art. Long ribbons of asphalt with lines down the middle count as such. Road signs and billboards, bridges and even traffic lights are all ‘art’ in a way. The practicality of a thing in ...
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By joseexist in Musings On Muses
Artists create thanks to muses. Muses come in many forms. There are no works by the human race that are without the backing of the inspiration of muses. Every painting, sculpture, song, play, poem, book, or movie has a muse ...
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By joseexist in Musings On Muses
Bridges, we cross many of them as we go thru life. We cross many physically, but we cross many, many more figuratively, or, metaphorically. This isn’t about the physical ones though. The figurative/ metaphorical spans are the ones that lead ...
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Notes From The Edge Of Oblivion
By joseexist in Musings On Muses
We sometimes see them coming, but not always. They usually don’t move on us in predictable ways. Problems can approach from any vector and when we discover them our personalities have ways of dealing with them, or not. I know ...
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By joseexist in Musings On Muses
Everything conceived deserves to see the light of day. Everything is believable but not everything is worth believing in. Our ignorance divides us but our understanding unites us. Darkness and light are easiest to understand by the gray turbulence between ...