5/5/09--(4;00:00A.M. EST)
As indicated, will try to return to more active posting here at website..Omens seem appropriate
A great deal of misery has always been the reward of those who learn a specific skill, only to find that by the time they can put that skill to work it is obsolete. This is one of the difficulties of evolving capitalism. It is described well in the folk song "John Henry" where John Henry was a steel driving man who could lay more track in a day then any other, but in the end he is defeated by a track laying machine.
There are computer programs today which can "listen" to a song and by comparing it with thousands of other hit songs of the past determine whether it will be popular with the audience. So much for inspiration.
One problem is that having learned to do something well we don't want to retrain. Or having spent 20 years falling in love with a woman we may not wish to fall in love with another even should the occasion demand it.
There's really not a damn thing you can do about it. I'd like to tell you otherwise, but I can't. If there is any consolation though it is in the ability to confront illusion with reality. Skill hath it's virtue.
Alchemy, my particular craft, has long been discredited as a useless nonsense. Yet it provides one with an ever expanding set of images. Within the laboratory is the alembic, within the alembic is the cosmic egg, or lapis, and within all these things lies the prima materia =this is the miracle ingredient that keeps your teeth white forever, that transforms everyday meat loaf into sirloin steak, makes a row boat into the Queen Mary.
Each day the creatures egg breaks and shatters. A slimy claw reaches through, followed by the beak and blind eyes of the fire lizard.
Which reminds me - here's todays Rant
Tamlin
5/2/09--(7;00:00A.M. EST)
"Dem wan killus,
but we no die"
Links to Tinkertoons
Sec One (380 meg)
www.megaupload.com/?d=80M22ORV
www.megaupload.com/?d=DDFHCJ3I
www.megaupload.com/?d=ID27IQH0
www.megaupload.com/?d=229BIV65(correct link)
Sec two (260 meg)
www.megaupload.com/?d=UCHTZHTQ
www.megaupload.com/?d=M6IXXLBD
www.megaupload.com/?d=RM5IGEA7
Well, that's that. It represents roughly a half years work. Honestly, like many musicians the fun part for me is inventing and playing the tunes - although that is leveraged somewhat by not having the joy of being able to perform them live - then again, in the greater scope of things my role' is probably closer to the composer then then the performer. I don't for instance see myself as having to be on tour all the time although I'm always going to be intimately involved in what goes on before the eyes and ears of the public.
Strange to say I seem to have lost a great deal of any concern I had about a polished product. it used to matter a lot, perhaps because, being self taught, I have an inferiority complex. In any case the questions that once plagued me about somethings being good or bad don't seem to matter anymore.
As far as whether you like this stuff, which is after all my goal, it goes without saying that this material is not like current pop music and ventures both avant garde and archaic, but again in one of those mind reorientations that keep happening I've come to believe that there's no use second guessing what the audience will like. One may only, as the bard suggests, "strive to please you everyday."
The Alien Life Form
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