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[wombat]

if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.

Possibly the worst writing advice ever given.

[Arachno-capitalist]

You mean you don't subscribe to the idea that only people who pour first draft perfections from their fingertips should even attempt writing?

[theinevitable]

Living with dudes who take music and art seriously, I am impressed anew with how much work goes into those pursuits
(But also how things they just dash off are completely incredible, and then they crumple it up and throw it in the trash.)
Confirmed: the cute girl who brought me soup thinks I am sleeping at her house. And the hostel won't let me cancel my reservation.
A couple of solutions present themselves. Trying to decide how to play this.

[pmcd9]

Trying to decide how to play this.

Is getting slapped entering into your thinking?

[theinevitable]

Sometimes in life you act like a weird idiot who can't ask people a simple question, but it works out anyway. My roommate who thought he couldn't get off work is taking my spot, and I am sleeping at the lady's house. This worked out for everyone. Except her poor parents, who have to deal with one more stinky hipster sleeping in their house (who is also trying to make out with their daughter, but they probably won't be aware of that dimension.)

(I'm just kidding, I smell great.)

I am going to bring them some Gooey Butter Cake.

[lprkn]

...have one of those days where I want to light my feet on fire and then kick people in the neck.



New bosses. The worst, people.

[dejavroom]

TIG... nothing, really. Just plod along at work then go home, work out like a spaz for 20 minutes. Prolly get stoned and read Crime & Punishment, mebbe draw some. Eh, congratulations on a dumb life.

[jay-ell]

Had a discussion about my writing career with Idea Man/spouse. Bought a book about turning experiences into articles. Set aside a notebook for article concepts & brainstorming.

I guess it's getting time to start working up a backlog of articles I want to write so that when Chaos Girl heads off to Kindergarten in July I can sit down and write them.

[theinevitable]

Remember where the magic happens.

The hostel people are being buttheads about this switcheroo. I do not understand why. They have already been paid. I guess this is my punishment for not wanting to get slapped.

Since I am driving, I made a really mediocre country mix CD to torture my roommates with. I am pretty excited.

[pmcd9]

Yeah? I, for one, wouldn't mind knowing what you consider a great country mix.

Me either, in fact, I think you should share it with us all. We will title it "Music to Get Slapped By."

[theinevitable]

OK, let's be honest, it is a mix of the only country songs I know about so far. I actually labeled it "Americana" because there is also some other folky-rock-continuum stuff.
The criteria was "things I want to listen to in the car with my roommates on the way to Nashville."

Gram Parsons/Late Byrds stuff along these lines.
Outliers like this guy in his electric phase. This performance rules. Later on is the famous "Judas" moment.
This song because I listen to it multiple times a week anyway.
Classics like this and this.
It pretty much feels like a CD I would have made in high school, if in high school I had been into late 60s/early 70s country-rock instead of indie rock. I should not pretend to know anything about country.

So, basically, I'm going to bury this CD in the back yard. HOW COULD I BE SO ARROGANT.

If you guys have more recommendations along those lines (especially the Gram Parsons/Flying Burrito Brothers angle) please send them my way via that other thread.

[AugustWest]

So, basically, I'm going to bury this CD in the back yard. HOW COULD I BE SO ARROGANT.

You could send it to me instead.

If you guys have more recommendations along those lines (especially the Gram Parsons/Flying Burrito Brothers angle) please send them my way via that other thread.

Well, the Grateful Dead would be consistent.  Little Feat.  John Prine.  Townes Van Zandt, or as I call him, "The Roast Beef of County Music".

[KeithHernandez]

The flatlanders- more a legend than a band is the greatest country album ever.  I hope you like saw.

The international submarine bands record is the second best country album ever (and grams first album), but you probably know about them? 

Today I am going to take some e for the first time in a long time.  I hope it is extra speedy.  I may drop some L in there too or I have a ball of some white girl.  I bought a shit load of drugs this week, but only because a friend was coming who wanted them.  I wasn't even excited about them- which makes me really excited.  This may be my last drug weekend, unless I somehow get famous or really rich without having a job.

[KeithHernandez]

I know you're not writing the great american novel or anything, but it reminded me of what my favorite poet had to say.

What up brokowski?

[jaydub]

New bosses. The worst, people.

You certainly work in an industry where that statement is not hyperbole.