Gotye - The Making of Eyes Wide Open - documentary (by gotyemusic)
I can’t get over how awesome this guy is.
Making New Mistakes
Make your mistakes, next year and forever. - Neil Gaiman
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2012-06-04 0 notes
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Guys, I just finished the first draft of We Want More.
For those not in the know, We Want More is the rock opera idea I came up with when I was seventeen and have since been writing on and off until last summer, when I sat down to actually script the thing. I got the first act and about a third of the second act done before getting back to school for senior year, and I worked on the music with our college’s jazz professor first semester. Second semester I pulled together a band of musicians to play six songs from the rock opera at my last show at Charlie’s Coffeehouse on campus. A week ago while I was up in the Adirondacks I managed to get back into the script, and this morning, about an hour or so ago, I finished the first draft.
It is a shitty, shitty first draft, but it’s on the page, and I just printed all of it out for revisions. 111 pages (that’s eleventy-one to all of you hobbitses out there). 23,533 words (many of those being dialogue tags, but still). 35 songs planned out—everything from full-blown songs to transitional pieces to incidental music. A fraction of those pieces are actually written, and even fewer are arranged, but the ones with lyrics all have lyrics written for them (whether they’re good or not), and I have basic musical ideas for all of them. The number will probably (hopefully) shrink during the revision process.
But for now, I’m taking a break. I’m going to get some distance from it, because it’s been sitting in my head for so long that I can’t tell which parts work and don’t work anymore. Then I’m going to go through the printed copy and pull an Audrey Carroll, making ALL THE NOTES and seeing if I can streamline this hodge-podge of a story—or flesh it out even more, so that it feels more natural.
The story, you ask? I’ve given various versions of it to different people. It’s definitely not what it started out as, although includes many of the major plot points I originally planned out. In simplest terms, it’s a critique of the stereotypical rock n’ roll lifestyle—not just the lifestyle itself, though, but the way audiences react to it. I’ve made connections in my head to a whole list of different stories it takes influence from or has similar elements to, and these include (but are not limited to):
Pink Floyd’s The Wall
Cinderella
Amadeus
The Hunger Games
Quadrophenia
Just to name a few. I don’t want to speak too much about the details of the plot, since the best way to understand a story is to experience the story itself, whether that’s by reading it, listening to it, or seeing it performed.And I leave you with this: an acoustic demo I did of “The Artist (Goin’ Down)” last year. It’s crappy quality, but it’s something. It’s still one of my favorites.
http://soundcloud.com/dohertyi/the-artist-goin-down
EDIT: I just realized this post sounds, like, completely devoid of emotion. I’m mostly just in shock that I finished it, even if it is a first draft. Holy crap.
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2012-06-02 310 notes
Loneliness does not come from having no people around one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
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2012-05-31 6 notes
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.
— Stephen King, On Writing
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2012-05-30 4,771 notes
These are all really great tips and I highly support them. The last one, “surviving”, I genuinely thought that person was holding a lifesaver. Not the actual flotation device (which they ARE holding) but the candy. x_x “Surviving? Well I guess some people really do like candy-OH oh. oh.”
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2012-05-29 27 notes
It’s very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It’s easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.
— Fred Rogers (via quotes-shape-us)
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Everyday Panic: Rilke Reading for May 27th
Do not measure in terms of time: one year or ten years means nothing. For the artist there is no counting or tallying up; just ripening like the tree that does not force its sap and endures the storms of spring without fearing that summer will not come. But it will come. It comes, however, only…
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