Hi, I don't know how to introduce myself because I wanna keep this as confidential as possible but lets just say I'm trying to start writing something.
Its 10:46am and I was, per usual dozing off to the mind-hooking articles while at work (Sorry Caro). Music has almost always been the tip of that hook, as it is frankly one of the few things I get to side-track without getting eyed out by my bosses.
Frankie Ruiz, Air, uhhhh what else....
Yesterday was Ryusenkei, and I got to an article about Kunimondo-Takeguchi's origin in Jazz-funk (which I ended up never reading), and today was Freddie-Gibbs. As he never fails to do, the world that his music takes me to is so distinctive I needed further exploration. Thats when I remembered about his visit to Japan and after a few diddly daddle, got to
"Kurosawa, Spike, and Freddie Gibbs: Japanese-American Cultural Exchange"
The cover is super cool, and in fact that was the reason I made the click to the website.
Whole lotta yap. But this guy knows his shit. I was subconciously coneieved the write as a middle-aged-retired-creative-(white) but turns out he turns out to be a 20s-working-writer-(white) guy; Not so far away. Anways, before I lose my intent of this post and start verbalizing every single one of my thought (like zev was doing), I gotta get this done. (One of my boss keeps looking at me maybe she knows I'm off task...)
To be straightforward, Zev's article was just really cool. I don't recall much of what I read (I know, its my fault, I need to learn to read more properly) nor was I inspired by his cultural analysis on the Kurosawa-Freddible-Spike lee's crossover. I think it was more so the fact that he
1)Had interests in lots of things
2)Knew the history behind them
3)Had the words to disperse them
I've been writing a lot recently on my small Campus Notebook but most of them has just been about Life, Inner Reflection, Purpose. I think its a cool piece that I learnt to write over time, but its kind of boring. it gets kind of boring. There is no fruit to the life. Just questions on what life is about. Not enough experiencing. I have opinions, or at least I would like to say. But after I've read that, I realize the lack of movie, literature, music, and any form of media that I ACTIVELY consumed.
I found that music is very easy and maintains my shallowness, beacuse as long as it appeals to the auditive sense, I am satisfied. I don't have to do the thinking. Magazines are the same, yes, letters exist, but its still the visual element that stimulates me. Reading is definitely better, like the Vietnam war biography I'm reading about forces me to use the psychological sense. Still, I realize that its myself that always have to take the intiaitive to ask the "Why". Why does this feel the way it does, look the way it does, etc. I've definitely been enthralled by the depth of life that learning offers, but I realize now how much more I need it. Especially because I also realized my passion to write more and more, I want something other than just "I did this good today", "How can I make my life better". I want to talk about my favorite music, the everyday training and the gym sessions, the lunchtime choices I make, about the fortuitious days that I get sometimes.
For all of this, I need to explore them deeper, know more about them, and have the vocabulary and skill to talk about them. Its just practice though. and curiosuty,. and Initative. whatever. I gotta get back to work, i'm a intern maneee.
Ok done. bye.