new soundtrack, new mojo
Funke inspired me to do what I've been meaning to do for awhile: dig out my Bjork and import her into iTunes. With new music in hand, all of a sudden I'm coming out the writer's block that has been plaguing me for weeks. Fresh sounds to divide and to mark the time I sit here writing.
Somehow Badly Drawn Boy, Nickel Creek, Palestrina, and In-Grid don't cut it anymore. They were the soundtrack for my last draft, and listening to them keeps me stuck in the mire of How I Was Wrong and Didn't Even Know It.
Now that I think about it, almost every Significant Paper that I've written has its own soundtrack, and I can't listen to that music without thinking about that paper.
I've written a few pages so far this evening, and I think I see how the rest is going to come out.
'Course, it could also be that my mom is praying for me.
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Hooray! Keep up the good thesising! I think Bjork would be flattered if she ever knew.
Posted by: funke | 01.11.06 21:53
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Word!! Sunny Day Real Estate and Radiohead are so last Spring semester at the Bucks County Coffee at Penn. Now it just don't do the trick.
Posted by: Pete | 01.11.06 22:22
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At least half of her waking hours! That is interesting, though, how you/we respond to work. I usually listen to a CD a whole school year and then I have to ship it out and do a new one, and I listwn to it almost exclusively.
Posted by: mom1 | 02.11.06 11:58
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Interesting about the soundtrack-per-draft thing. I'm one of those people who gets too distracted listening to music when I'm trying to do mind-intensive work, so the concept of associating music with a particular writing project is new to me. I do, however, associate certain music with driving or walking around in certain cities, wherever I lived when I first got a particular CD and listened to it nonstop. =)
I'm glad your new (old) music is breathing new life into your writing process. And hurray for supportive moms!
Posted by: Erica | 02.11.06 16:39