Ramblings From Justin Penney

I often miss the obvious. When I read, I write. When I listen to music, I create music. The last few books I read were so inspiring that I wrote like crazy. I jotted notes in notebooks, I made posts on my blog, I wrote long elaborate emails to friends. Now that I'm not reading that all ceases. I can't even come up with topic suggestions for magazine articles!

I purchase This Band Could Be Your Life at Half Prioe Books before the last 359s show. I'm planning to start in on it sometime this weekend.

I get the same type of inspiration from music. My most recent song, "Battered, Bloody" was directly inspired by listening to music. I had recently revisited Fewer Moving Parts by David Bazan and penned this song in about 30 minutes. Half of a freaking hour! I've struggled for weeks on songs and not been as happy with outcome.

Aping (aka ripping off) is becoming and accepted concept to me. This is the same concept of "Good artists borrow; great artists steal." I am now convinced that it is good to steal.

Now I'm slightly regretful that I spent so much of my inspired times trying hard to be completely original. Had I been aping my heroes earlier I would probably have a better catalog of creative works.

# posted by Justin @ 11:24 PM