You see? This is how I do—
I’m already slacking on this blog. Even with all of the time to do, I’m still letting this thing lapse. It’s what I do. My origin story is chock full of getting about 2 daydreams deep into something and then my attention goes farting away into the ether. Ideas? I come up with plenty of good ideas I’ve got good lines and smart plans, too. But follow-up is where I fall down. It’s why my output sucks. There’s a word for it—it’s Velleity, it’s an idea that isn’t strong enough to cause action. I think of things but I rarely write them down, much less act upon them. I learned that word just this week. It was in Gravity’s Rainbow, the Thomas Pynchon book that I’ve vowed to finally complete seven years after I purchased it on i-Book (the Apple e-book format). One thing I’ve learned since then is that I’m not an Apple guy. It was a creativity killer for me. So now that I got a new Windows laptop so I can work from home, I’m going through reading anything I bought for my Mac and/ or I-phone before I retire the Macbook that I wrote The Grifter’s Bible on.
In the past month of quarantine, I finally read White Noise by Don Delillo to the end (that was my other i-Book) and I’ve gone past all of my old bookmarks in Gravity’s Rainbow and I’m still going (I don’t get it yet. Maybe I’m a lunkhead). Aside from that, I learned about the D.C. Go-Go scene on an Amazon documentary and I learned about Latin Freestyle from Big Jay Oakerson.
I also learned about banana whips from Big Jay. Never heard of it in all of my long life. I think it’s a north eastern dessert. Yankee treats. Looks good, though.
Oh, and this is cool—the two main hooks (vocal and horns) from the Bucketheads’ stone-cold classic, “The Bomb (These sounds fall into my mind)” were sampled from a song by Chicago from 1979 called “Street Player”. I love that. It’s like finding a missing puzzle piece that you didn’t know you needed.
I did some more learning and doing stuff but that’ll have to come for later.
Hi-yo, Calgon! Take me away!!!
Ich Bin El Sh’booms, 04/22/2020, 6 feet away from everyone from now on.