Sometimes late at night, when my mind is wandering, I will get a sudden burst of creativity. I have to take advantage of it when it comes. I roll out a piece of paper from the gigantic roll I have, tape a blank piece to the wall or my door — whatever is empty or whatever doesn’t require tearing something down — put on an album (last night I chose to listen to Helium, strangely), and take a good look at the piece of blank paper. I’ve been grabbing the paint and crayons lately, but for some reason I grabbed a newspaper instead:
(I also did one more, if you want to follow the link to my flickr, you can see it there) I will stay up for as long as it takes to get this “out” or whatever you want to call it. When it’s finally finished, I feel better. No matter the results. No matter that it’s three a.m. and I need to be up at seven for work. I definitely go off into another zone when I’m creating. Brain patterns are different. I like the feeling it gives me.
Since last I posted, I finished up the Hawthorne stories. Still undecided what my first book of September will be. I’m not in any particular kind of mood — even visited Borders today just to browse and maybe get some ideas (but mostly I had time to wait for the next bus to come) but that didn’t help much, because I want to read quite a number of things. This is nothing new.
Finally saw Hot Fuzz! and Zombie’s remake of Halloween. I don’t really have a strong opinion of it (Halloween), because I didn’t dislike it… but I didn’t particularly like it either. Plus, I’m not a horror movie buff and anything I say will ultimately end up sounding ignorant. All I’ll say is that I like the original better. There.
Listened to the Inbreds, like all day today, although you wouldn’t know it because my iPod never updates on last.fm. I wonder how the tribute is??? I still don’t understand why just now I’m really really digging their music. I’ve had two of their albums, Hilario and Kombinator FOREVAR and never really gave them a listen. It just comes down to listening to a song at the right moment, I think… which is why I will often give albums another change after a long while of not listening to them. Doesn’t always mean I will come around, but really I have to be struck at the right place and the right time. I guess now is the right time to be listening to them. Funny how that works.