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Tris McCall - 2006-07-24 17:38:54
i started out trying to be green gartside, and i'm still trying.
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Paula - 2006-07-24 17:43:13
And he is trying to be Tris McCall, only he doesn't know it yet.
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Greg - 2006-07-24 18:57:31
OOOOOH Scritti! I've got some groovy early Scritti, some rarities and live John Peel stuff if'n you're interested. You're the first person I've heard mention them in ages... though I believe they made the Rhino collections.
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Greg - 2006-07-24 19:04:31
going to have to check out Dirty Pretty Things. I really loved The Libertines and seriously--I'd like to see Pete Doherty get his act together too... if only as a giant F U to the tabloids who seem to be making a lot of money off him.
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Greg - 2006-07-24 19:10:16
Not sure if strumming works the same way as scribbling but a long A train ride out to Far Rockaway, then back up to the GWB and then back to Brooklyn--with stops on one end or the other--gets me all fired up. Outside the house, otherwise, my two favorite places to write are Ruby's at Coney Island and Desmond's on Park Avenue, but both only during the day. Writing music makes more noise though, I'd imagine.
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Dave - 2006-07-25 08:57:24
Well, as for inspiring myself to finish songs, I go through and type out everything I have so far with little underline marks for lines/chords that still need to be written. I almost always have less to do on the song than I thought I did. You can be missing two lines and it feels like a huge hole when you're playing it, but on the page it doesn't seem like so much.
Then I spend two to three years getting around to writing those last two lines.
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Paula - 2006-07-25 09:12:11
I was in that situation once--just needed a couple lines in the bridge and was stuck, so I asked someone else to finish it, and whatever they came up with was just not right--but so not right that it caused my subconscious to protest and fork over the correct lines, post-haste, to finish the song.
That's a good trick--sort of an anti-collaboration. I don't remember what song it was, though.
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Greg - 2006-07-25 12:08:10
HEY!!! You scooped the Times on the Scritti Front! http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/arts/music/25scri.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1153843672-ERAZti6RfGX6suWPV2zuHw
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2fs - 2006-07-26 19:11:13
The "so not right" thing reminds me of a fun story: Rose was hired at her current job just as a World Famous Architect (for which Rose's firm was the local architect) was finishing up a major and iconic Milwaukee building. (This roman's clef is pretty obvious...how many "iconic Milwaukee building"s are there?) Anyway, they were having a problem with the gift shop - which WFA didn't care about, but which (of course) would be a major revenue source for the, uh, facility. Rose's task was to design a gift shop that WFA would have to reject. Not that it was supposed to be bad - but it was just understood that WFA would not accept someone else's design here, and would be forced into action. It worked. (I should clarify that despite this story, WFA was apparently a gentleman and quite charming to work with - not the egomaniac the "WFA" label might imply.) Anyway: perhaps the workings here are similar to those underlying Brian Eno's famous "honor thy error as a hidden intention" stratagem.
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Paula - 2006-07-29 22:26:31
That is a funny story, somewhat reminiscent of the Brady Bunch episode where Greg decides he doesn't want to be an architect after all, and sets out to design a horrible house so that his dad would discourage him. And then everybody's hair gets curly and everyone turns out to be gay.
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Bina - 2006-10-18 02:09:27
I allow myself to procrastinate and NOT write as much as I want to. Hence I rarely have a problem with writer's block because I don't force my mind to produce before it's ready to.
But on those days when I'm stuck, I will sit down and play the piano. There is something about shutting off the verbal side of your brain and opening up the non-verbal that really kicks the former into shape. You let your fingers do the talking on the piano keyboard and somehow the same thing happens on the computer.
Or I just go for a walk, or a drive.
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