Musings:
lines from nausea ~
A perfect day to turn back to one's self: these cold clarities which the sun projects like a judgement shorn of pity, over all creatures - enter through my eyes; I am illuminated within by a diminishing light. I am sure that fifteen minutes would be enough to reach supreme self-contempt. No thank you, I want none of that.
Sometimes I read a passage like that and I stop to think of myself, almost attempting the existential climb outside my own body to take on the third person outlook at God's creation which I have so debased. I see myself in dim light, in a moonlit cafe of awkward jarring sensibilites. Crouching in a dark corner, satisfied... satisfied with the mediocrity that I have brought upon myself. I do not labour to achieve anything worthy of the mantle so polished in childhood. Forgotten the splendour of the day.
.. and then I shrug off the doubts ...actually the facts. Rationalizing that what I accomplish now is actually respectable. But then you come upon the works of my buddy ... jean-jacques.. the big rousseau. He says:
"A man who will be all his life a bad versifier, or a third-rate geometrician, might have made nevertheless an excellent clothier. Those whom nature intended for her disciples have not needed masters."
Then you stop think ... oh no! My doubts are clear as a blue sky of deepest azure! My imperfections lie manifest upon destiny's door! ...am I destined to be a third-rate life science student? But no time for such thoughts... no the day is too narrow for such questions. To loiter is to extirpate oneself!
Such musings shall only remain on the drawing board.. never to be published.
That was the first part of my blog!
Let's move on to lighter matters:
Les Chansons de Ma Vie:
So what's occupying the airwaves in room 468???
The Desert Sessions (Volumes 1 & 2, for the moment): founded by Josh Homme - guitarist and singer of "queens of the stone age", "eagles of death metal" and previously of "kyuss". The Desert Sessions began in August 1997 at the "Rancho de la Luna" in Joshua Tree when Homme brought together other musicians. The ranch is an old house filled to the brim with rare and unique recording equipment and instruments. Songs are written on the spot in matters of hours usually, and no place in the home is safe from the music.The first Desert Session was not actually a "session" per se, but Homme and his band at the time, playing for three days straight under the non-stop influence of psychedelic mushrooms. Since then the ranch has grown legendary and the Desert Sessions have grown in intensity and artistic merit.
"At Desert Sessions, you play for the sake of music. That’s why it’s good for musicians. If someday that’s not enough anymore, or that’s not the reason behind you doing it--that’s not your raison d’etre--then a quick reminder like Desert Sessions can do so much for you, it’s amazing. It’s easy to forget that this all starts from playing in your garage and loving it." - Josh Homme
That's it from me this morning... I hope you've enjoyed the clear cut outline to this blog - first some musings and then songs that I would put on a video documenting this chapter of my life!
lines from nausea ~
A perfect day to turn back to one's self: these cold clarities which the sun projects like a judgement shorn of pity, over all creatures - enter through my eyes; I am illuminated within by a diminishing light. I am sure that fifteen minutes would be enough to reach supreme self-contempt. No thank you, I want none of that.
Sometimes I read a passage like that and I stop to think of myself, almost attempting the existential climb outside my own body to take on the third person outlook at God's creation which I have so debased. I see myself in dim light, in a moonlit cafe of awkward jarring sensibilites. Crouching in a dark corner, satisfied... satisfied with the mediocrity that I have brought upon myself. I do not labour to achieve anything worthy of the mantle so polished in childhood. Forgotten the splendour of the day.
.. and then I shrug off the doubts ...actually the facts. Rationalizing that what I accomplish now is actually respectable. But then you come upon the works of my buddy ... jean-jacques.. the big rousseau. He says:
"A man who will be all his life a bad versifier, or a third-rate geometrician, might have made nevertheless an excellent clothier. Those whom nature intended for her disciples have not needed masters."
Then you stop think ... oh no! My doubts are clear as a blue sky of deepest azure! My imperfections lie manifest upon destiny's door! ...am I destined to be a third-rate life science student? But no time for such thoughts... no the day is too narrow for such questions. To loiter is to extirpate oneself!
Such musings shall only remain on the drawing board.. never to be published.
That was the first part of my blog!
Let's move on to lighter matters:
Les Chansons de Ma Vie:
So what's occupying the airwaves in room 468???
The Desert Sessions (Volumes 1 & 2, for the moment): founded by Josh Homme - guitarist and singer of "queens of the stone age", "eagles of death metal" and previously of "kyuss". The Desert Sessions began in August 1997 at the "Rancho de la Luna" in Joshua Tree when Homme brought together other musicians. The ranch is an old house filled to the brim with rare and unique recording equipment and instruments. Songs are written on the spot in matters of hours usually, and no place in the home is safe from the music.The first Desert Session was not actually a "session" per se, but Homme and his band at the time, playing for three days straight under the non-stop influence of psychedelic mushrooms. Since then the ranch has grown legendary and the Desert Sessions have grown in intensity and artistic merit.
"At Desert Sessions, you play for the sake of music. That’s why it’s good for musicians. If someday that’s not enough anymore, or that’s not the reason behind you doing it--that’s not your raison d’etre--then a quick reminder like Desert Sessions can do so much for you, it’s amazing. It’s easy to forget that this all starts from playing in your garage and loving it." - Josh Homme
That's it from me this morning... I hope you've enjoyed the clear cut outline to this blog - first some musings and then songs that I would put on a video documenting this chapter of my life!
Credits for the pictures to my brov!
-Ya hagh
3 comments:
How one defines mediocrity is rather relevant here, but not made lucid. Personally, I believe mediocrity is a state of mind and has nothing to do with accomplishments and other such prime trivial matters, which this world tends to demand or press upon you. You must say, "screw it," and do your own thang, and if you're smiling, you've won.
Ya Hagh
Bloody dry
as i read with vigour your mediocracy i can only profer the words of one much better than myself:
Take a chance and try my fare:
It will grow on you, I swear;
Soom it will taste good to you.
If by then you should want more,
All the things I've done before
Will inspire things quite new.
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