Inspiration.

Four things inspire me to write a new blog entry.

1. Music.
This is pretty obvious from all the youtube vids I put up.  I do find it necessary to share a good song (if this seems contradictory to my former post about me being a stingy music hog, well, that’s because it is. No, I was referring to only a select bunch of songs, not the general mass of songs I have). The other day (it should be noted that this phrase ‘the other day’ can refer to any number of time periods, from yesterday to last week to 3 years ago) I walked into a small thrift store and was surprised to find a pretty decent stash of used cd’s.  I spent the next hour tediously going through every single one of them and ended up gathering a pretty massive collection for myself that must have inclined a store-worker to retrieve a large basket for me, sweet lady. I found a sixpence none the richer cd for $.40 and a ingrid michaelson cd for $1.20, a jeff buckley cd for $2.20 (who decides these prices anyway?), and about 6 disney princess sing-a-long cd’s for $.60 each!! Sadly I had to put back about 4 of them, because I already had all of the songs.  I walked out with those, along with about 13 other cd’s, feeling pretty good about myself, like I had somehow cheating the world.  18 cd’s for $31!  Thrift stores, baby… the place to go.

Also, I’ve discovered pandora.com thanks to a friend, and I’ve decided to change my stance on technology.  If you’re looking to find some new tunes, it’s definitely worth taking a look at.  Basically you enter one of your favorite songs/artists, and based on the characteristics of that song/artist (such as song structure, key tonality, syncopation, lyrics, etc.) the ‘music genome project’ finds similar songs they think you’ll also like and plays them for you.  Sweet, my own personalized radio.  Although, it is not a perfect system.  Take today, I put in “dishwalla” and they gave me bands like third eye blind, three doors down, goo goo dolls (goo goo dolls?!??)… I was slightly offended.

2. Emo-causing events.
Luckily for you (you, as in all 4 of my blog readers…) the vast majority of these entries go privated.  This is because one too many times I’ve written a at-the-time very heartfelt, depressing, lyrical entry (there probably was some k-pop in the background during the time), and the next morning you read the pansy entry again while listening to Hellogoodbye and think to yourself, ‘wtf was I thinking??’
I don’t necessarily think these entries are worthless, thus the reason I don’t obliterate them altogether.  But to the public reader, who could be miles away in emotional condition while reading it, it could be quite the annoying, or comical read.  I know this, because it’s how I feel when I read emo-entries.  And as much as some say blogging is a personal thing, an emotional outlet without regard for how others will think…where you can ‘be yourself’, I happen to care very much about what others think of me.  Maybe I should stick to writing songs instead.

3. Others’ writings.
I don’t know you, and you really don’t know me, but oh, how I do read your entries religiously. Why do your blog stats shoot up in between posts? Yeah, that would be me.  I adore creative writers.  Their ability to portray true emotion in a non-emotional, but real and accurate way is refreshing and addictive.  Sometimes the language is so simple, no convoluted sentences and showy vocab, but the writing is constructed in the exact way it needed to be to relay this particular message.  I am jealous.  And you inspire me.

4. Boredom.
I really have nothing better to do. No, really. It’s usually a choice between blogging and studying and fighting with my rabbit.  Not such a difficult choice. 

But now this entry is getting very boring too, so it ends now.