Wednesday, March 30, 2005
What To Do on Blocked Days
We are all just tubes. Each living species especially evolved to put stuff in one end and send it out the other. It was Alan W. Watts who put forth that idea in a book called The Joyous Cosmology. I can't think of anything else from the early seventies that I remember well enough to quote. It was the early seventies, after all. That one stuck to me. The rest of that book is a blur. If you're a creationist, keep it to yourself, please. I won't knock you but I'm just not interested in your point of view. That's as polite as I can get. Many of my blogger pals would tell you which end of the tube to stick it in. I'll refrain from that sort of humor here, though.The tube thing serves me well. Helps me not to take my self too seriously. Just seriously enough to not let the tube swell into the size and shape of the Oscar Meyer Wiener truck. It helps enormously at times like this when I can't seem to turn out any new lyrics. I just take in as much visual and aural stimulus as I can and hope that it'll eventually come out as a lyric. Less you think I have my word processor set up in the porcelain confines of my bathroom, I should point out that there is a major realignment in my tubelature for this process. I type in the conventional way with my fingers.
I do write down everything I notice during this stage. It's like chewing and swallowing. Some might say what I do next is bulimic. Just spurting digested material out in the direction from which it entered. I won't quibble with such distinctions. One man's puke is another man's...Well never mind. I have some idea munching to do.
posted by Bud @ 10:24 AM
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