123Mrk - Untroubled
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Baio - Sunburn. Video’s a little weird, but the song’s awesome.
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Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won’t keep reading your work. I learned the importance of rhythm from music — and mainly from jazz. Next comes melody — which, in literature, means the appropriate arrangement of the words to match the rhythm. If the way the words fit the rhythm is smooth and beautiful, you can’t ask for anything more. Next is harmony — the internal mental sounds that support the words. Then comes the part I like best: free improvisation. Through some special channel, the story comes welling out freely from inside. All I have to do is get into the flow. Finally comes what may be the most important thing: that high you experience upon completing a work… Practically everything I know about writing, then, I learned from music. It may sound paradoxical to say so, but if I had not been so obsessed with music, I might not have become a novelist.
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Don’t stop imagining. The day that you do is the day that you die.
— Youth Lagoon - 17
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New single from Black Milk off Jack White’s Third Man Records with Jack playing guitar on this one.
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Really love the album art and this whole package for 6th Borough Project. Anyone know who designed it?
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For the Love
…we come to the same crossroad of decision within whatever craft or work we’re engaged in. We can work for control and mastery over the “object”, thereby exploiting it for our own gain and recognition, or, we can enter into the love of the work for it’s own sake, exploring the mystery with open hands, thereby inviting others to enter into our joy. The latter is what makes good art: Art that’s not dependent on recognition, yet conversely art that proves to be the greatest service to mankind. ‘Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.’ writes Howard Thurman. These old mentors have somehow helped to renew my mind and focus in regards to my own relationship with music and how I approach it. - Josh Garrels
It’s interesting how much this applies to any craft or work you can think of. Design is the obvious example for me, but it can apply to teachers, doctors, lawyers, etc. Anyone doing anything for domination or power or mastery for its own sake inevitably leaves everyone else out of the joy and wonder that would have otherwise come out of that work.
Work because you should and do it because you love it. Doing anything purely for the recognition doesn’t do anyone much good. It’s when we put our heart into something and do it with care and dedication that it has the power to change people.
