creative beats

mlaurenlong

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:18:04 +0200

Everything seemed to be on hold when I started writing again, so...

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:27:45 +0200

Everything seemed to be on hold when I started writing again, so I took out my Moleskine for the first time since July-August. It’ll be filled soon and I already have plans for the next one.
I can very much like this autumn.

"how people treat you is their karma, how you choose to react is yours."

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:14:27 +0200

“how people treat you is their karma, how you choose to react is yours.”

- Wayne Dyer

"Oh how I wish to be what I feel sometimes how I want to be strong and brave I’m stronger..."

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:56:00 +0200

““Oh how I wish to be
what I feel sometimes
how I want to be strong and brave
I’m stronger than I have to
and as brave as I can be
but only when things
only when things have no value to me””

- Unni Wilhelmsen, wanna-be song

I want

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:37:48 +0200

a cable knit sweater
inspiration
to find the right words for my new song
to make a good first impression in school tomorrow

re: poetry

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:29:00 +0200

1
ho fylte fatet sitt med frykt,
bærde vekta av verda
tok gråstein etter gråstein
og bygde der ho ikkje ville sjå

lèt det rase og stod hudlaus att

2
ute er det mjølkekvitt
eg tek munnen full
skylder med såpe og
eg har aldri vore her

forlat meg mi skuld
i kursiv mellom beina
er eg like rein som
jorda eg skal bli

3
eg haldt bøtene i
ei hand
godtok dei lik som
trafikk i skyene

stod med i bøtene i
ei blank verd
takka deg medan du
dansa i triumf

trøsteleg byrja spelet ditt
men eg haldt bøtene i
ei hand og
våpenet i den andre

war

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:06:56 +0200

Oftentimes I’m quiet and only exist in the outmost physical form.
These are the times I want to forget the world.

"if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it..."

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:36:00 +0200

“

if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it for money or
fame,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don’t do it.
if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,
don’t do it.
if you’re trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.

if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you’re not ready.

don’t be like so many writers,
don’t be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don’t be dull and boring and
pretentious, don’t be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don’t add to that.
don’t do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don’t do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don’t do it.

when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.

there is no other way.

and there never was.

”

- So you want to be a writer? by Charles Bukowski.

22

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:43:25 +0200

years in life was celebrated with good friends, music, wine, mime games, laughter, no camera, ugly sweaters, beautiful lilies, beer.
Remembered by a hangover.

I used to not like John Mayer. Now his music is starting to grow...

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:10:05 +0200

I used to not like John Mayer. Now his music is starting to grow on me, and I have to admit this video has some fine guitar playing.

Spent Saturday night on an island at a mini festival, free...

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:24:00 +0200

Spent Saturday night on an island at a mini festival, free for the good of the community.
Thom Hell did not disappoint.

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"- We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. - I think this is the..."

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:59:00 +0200

“

- We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff.

- I think this is the best-known story in the world because it is everybody’s story. I think it is the symbol story of the human soul. […] The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt — and there is the story of mankind. […] The human is the only guilty animal.

”

- East of Eden by John Steinbeck; Lee on his thoughts on the story of Cain and Abel.

Instamatic

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:11:00 +0200

I just got my hands on an instamatic camera; Agfamatic 100 sensor.
I’m dying to use it, but it seems there’s hardly a 126 film left in the world.

A collection of memoriesBedding from our country house, and...

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:45:00 +0200

A collection of memories
Bedding from our country house, and it smells like summer, the 70s, farm and hay, my childhood.
Kaleidoscope, which really is a newly purchased one, but it reminds me of a girl who made me feel worthless and looking at the colours made me wish I was colourful and vibrant. Looking at them now have me half realizing I was.
A beautiful spinning top I found cleaning out one of the coffee shops/bars in my hometown.
And blur; summer has been a blur thus far.

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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:11:00 +0200

“A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.”

- Franz Kafka

My birthday is coming up. After some research, and today’s...

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:46:00 +0200

My birthday is coming up. After some research, and today’s purchase of a kaleidoscope, I will have to revise. Turns out my Nike Air shoes don’t work with the Nike Kit! Every day I read 100+ blogs, and one of them had a list inspired by another blog’s list and I thought I’d carry on the idea, hence the 21 things to do before I turn 22.
It strikes me now I should probably have started earlier, since my birthday is Aug 2. Any ideas to share? Throw them at me, thanks!

Another list, this one of films I wanna see, cinema and DVD.

Lastly a drawing I did yesterday to pass boring Sunday time. Modesty Blaise is my only comic strip heroine. Don’t think I did her justice, though.

On patience

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:31:04 +0200

Things to do instead of writing:
None.

Things to write:
None.

There’s not much to do around here. The books...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:07:00 +0200

There’s not much to do around here.

The books I’m reading this summer
and
I did a quick study of the growths on our porch. It is safe to say the members of my family are known for other things than their green fingers.

“The goal of life is to make your heart beat to the beat...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:43:00 +0200

“The goal of life is to make your heart beat to the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

I spent the day second hand shopping, and one of the stores put my itmes in this zippered paperbag. Found a typewriter too, and I now regret not buying it.

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thlom: Totalnekt

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:42:17 +0200

thlom:

Totalnekt