09-29-2006, 12:19 PM
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rico suave
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: lost in a romance
Posts: 815
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Re: what inspires?
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Originally Posted by adam
1) I personally have to reduce all pleasant time-killers in my life as much as possible. Little to no TV, etc. This works wonders: an example being last Friday. Last Friday I got off work, and really, really, didn't want to work on music. I was in kind of a bad mood, and had been thinking about playing World of Warcraft again. Instead, I forced myself to work on music, and ended up coming up with something I really liked, which also lifted my bad mood. If I had started WoW again, I would have used the bad mood as an excuse for its escapism, turned it on, and, yes, probably have enjoyed myself (that's the whole appeal, innit?)
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art can be the ultimate escapism, creating something beautiful from the ugliness/irritations of the world from which you want to escape. escapism through transformation.
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