Thread: what inspires?
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Old 09-29-2006, 12:19 PM
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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?)
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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