Green Room - Week 4 - Day 2

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Good morning Green Room!

Last night I went to see Jonathan Richman. Note to GR, if you don't know who I am talking about, become familiar with who I am talking about. Seriously, the man is hugely influential over the last 40 or so years of rock music...

One of the things that people note when they are seeing him is his sincerity. It pours out of every word and each look that he gives people. He's talking about his life, and the way he looks at the world, even when it's telling "someone else's story".

Which is important, because if your writing isn't about you, if it isn't telling something about who you are and how you see the world - what is it doing? You can say "Telling an interesting story", but what you find interesting *is* about you... it's revealing.

The act of creating art/crafting a story/performing a song, is showing vulnerability to the world. It's showing something that is real/true, it is a piece of yourself that comes out in fiction as easily as it does in non-fiction, poetry, or hip-hop music!

Which is part of what makes Idol so interesting *to me*. Getting to see those slices of your lives, and what you choose to share with the rest of the world, and what slips out through the cracks.

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Btw - there is a Second Chance Idol deadline this evening: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/620730.html

and a main competition deadline tomorrow: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/620811.html

Comments

[momebie.livejournal.com]

My writing is mainly about extreme existential anguish and not being able to sleep at night because I don't know how to be a proper human being. Oh, and also superheroes and steampunk swordsman and girls who turn into birds. But you know, none of those things are mutually exclusive.

I still need to write find the time to write my entry. At least I know what I'm writing it about now?

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

Why I have not friended you before, I do not know. Obviously there's something wrong with me.

[momebie.livejournal.com]

I'm like the Spanish Inquisition that way, no one sees me coming. :p But we can fix that! We have the power!