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lifting star - 2004-12-09 09:15:55
how can i help?
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Doc - 2004-12-09 09:46:24
That's what we're here for. What do you need?
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Julie - 2004-12-09 11:40:40
Anything I can do to help?
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cecilia - 2004-12-09 15:27:35
anyone have any good remedies for 'this universe is sucking me dry?' just wondering - also i need a good inspirational poem or book or something. i'm artistically constipated and the bloat is beginning to set in -
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Alina - 2004-12-09 16:19:38
I'm emailing you photos. And this one always helps me: "This too shall pass." Corny, yes, but such a relief! (You just have to say it over and over again in your head until nothing else fits except hope)
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adwoa - 2004-12-09 16:30:09
as for being sucked dry, i usually just have to spend some time by myself, look at something pretty in nature, a fish or a tree or something, and it will usually get me started creating again. i need to focus on details sometimes, to be able to have any sort of concentration on anything else. as far as books, the one i'm currently reading, reading lolita in tehran is a real thinker. and there's an amazing book called the art of looking sideways that shakes up and challenges the way i look at things in the world every time i read it. i hope this helps.
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chaosorder - 2004-12-09 18:03:11
http://www.coracle.org/htdocs/poetry/jnutter.html
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Raven72D - 2004-12-09 18:22:34
I manage to be re-energized whenever I read Cavafy's poetry...or read Eddison's "The Worm Ouroboros" aloud...or even just read Wallace Stevens' "The Idea of Order at Key West"...
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Doc - 2004-12-09 18:58:58
Well, the first time I read it, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller seemed to be the most creatively inspiring book I'd ever read...That man had a lust for life, and his "art" (his writing). Other wise, I'd recommend the independent film "Baadassss" by Mario Van Peebles- it's about the artistic struggle his father had to make the first blaxploitation movie...Hmm..There's more, because I run out of juice all the time. Usually a trip to the museum with a sketchbook helps- or a trip to the comic book store. After looking around for a few minutes I usually say to myself, "I could do better than some of these guys." Then I go home and draw my ass off. Coffee helps with that too. Booze kills the mood. Never drink and draw.
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jes - 2004-12-09 19:46:52
Ok, I am not much of an artist, but when ever I get in a philosophy slump, I do something totally unrelated, like art. Perhaps you should try philosophy? I suggest Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. section 11 (providence and a future state). If you go slow, the read is pretty easy. Or you could just start drawing. For a writer, the hardest part is overcoming the blank page. Maybe you should just shut your eyes and go. -jes
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cecilia - 2004-12-09 19:59:07
this is incredible. thanks everyone...i'm making lots of notes and i will try to post the ensuing art after the blockage is overcome. ha! but i LOVE to drink and draw...
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starnothing - 2004-12-09 20:44:35
for me, though this is weird, i always find watching 'buffalo '66' to be helpful. or pink floyd's 'the wall'. i'm not sure why, though.
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Doc - 2004-12-09 22:26:22
Two more: Oh wait, THREE..Oh FOUR: A documentary called, "The Typewriter, The Rifle and the Movie Camera" about film director Sam Fuller. His enthusiasm in infectuous. "A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway, and last but not least (especially because you dig photography): "Henry Miller: The Paris Years" by Brassai. (Well, at least it was written by a phtographer...I hear his "Secret History of Paris in the '30's" is good.). You could also check out Akira Kurosawa's "Something Like an Autobigoraphy". Each of these books is by an artist, about making art. They used to make me so heady, I could've been drinking champagne on an empty stomach.
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Jack - 2004-12-10 21:05:57
I know its a little late, but I found this site today, and it made me feel better. I have been feeling sucked dry myself. http://www.sff.net/People/LisaRC/into2.htm
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solstitialis.diaryland.com - 2004-12-13 21:40:47
Mutant Message from Down Under, by Marlo Morgan. Arrived in the mail just when I needed help. Perhaps you would enjoy it too? I'm always around no matter how distant I may seem if you want someone to talk to.
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