How Scandinavian of me would say Björk , but how Latinamerican of me it is sometimes to send hugs and moochies and you are the sunshine of my life to people I find fabulous. Where's the dark side when you need it?I've though a lot about two crazy ladies. See, in the American stereotype, crazy now is getting out from a car without panties. I wonder why people buy in cheap talent and where these powerful females that have a lot of pain in their soul (and sing soul) are. Do you need pain to be expressive? Quite a debate. Living a life without contrasts does not make people better off to deal with existencial punches. People with a first-world dwelling can also make good artists, can't they? Our pain stages vary. War wounds do not necessarily lead to creativity, and a purely Copenhagian life where the tragedy is that you don't have shoes to fit your belt doesn't either.
I am going around in circles. First would like to talk about Lady Day. 'Gloomy Sunday' was the first tune I heard on my first five minutes in Amsterdam. Billie Holiday has a magnetic force that I fail to find in Katie M, Norah J or Alanis. She did actually have a crapy life: prostitution, love going wrong, sex, drugs and rock n' roll. And then Amy, Amy, Amy - my most recent love. Not a fairytale either - junkie, live fast, sing deep. Even take Woody Allen, for that matter-a depressive genius. These sad individuals that have had sorrow but are able to create, are the ones I identify with. Is this a common trait? Do you have to suffer AND be able to express it to be the best of the rest?
Once in January 2006 I had the Danish-dream-crashing blues. Artboy told me then that wish he would be passing through that set of emotions, as creativity lies where pain is. What a couple of freaking 'creative' couple of years I have had!
Nobody stands in between me and my man, it's me and Mr Jones (Me and Mr. Jones)
What kind of fuckery is this?
You made me miss the Slick Rick gig (oh Slick Rick)
You thought I didn't love you when I did (when I did)
Can't believe you played me out like that (Ahhh)
Amy W
2 comments:
"Quite a debate. Living a life without contrasts does not make people better off to deal with existencial punches." ????
Girl... you keep comparing normal life and art. Art being a short word for 'fleeing into fantasy one way or another'.
BUT: Using fancy words, describing incredible sunsets or painting unussual square nipples doesn't make you an artist.
If and when you are able to make individuals to loose perspective on time and place, you're an artist.
Triggering an emotion is an art by its self. Triggering the right one is a gift only givin to those who remain out of the spotligt. The singers of 'that special song', or the keepers of 'that special B&B'... Most importantly, they remain in the shadow... The more words or brush strikes they use, the less prominent they become....
Dan'
Beg to differ, and I will use a practical example. Take 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Lolita'. Would have love to come up with nicer examples but those two are rather tangible.
'The Da Vinci Code' is a really bad police novel. It has a hook based on common places and religious taboo, but the guy who wrote it was NOT a writer. Although the thoughts and his material serve the purpose of entertaining people (with very easily attainable results as the book reached the masses), I don't think it's art.
'Lolita' is however a book with a simple anecdote - Humbert Humbert has an object of desire that materialises and brings out his fears and the most impressive traits of personnality. The way Nabokov wrote it is however valuable in itself. It didn't reach 'the masses', but managed pretty well. ONe paragraph of 'Lolita' contains more reflexion material than a whole chapter of 'The Da Vinci'.
Further - take salsa and flamenco. Everybody can dance salsa, and that is artisany. But to dance flamenco properly, you have to train your body very hardly and become an expression of art by using your body. Do not think you can call 'artists' to everybody that uses specific words or moves, but the one that puts something BEHIND the expression.
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