if ya don't mind...
work's slowed quite a bit, so i've had more time to fool around on the lovely invention we call myspace. and i've been coming across some really interesting stuff...movies, music, etc.
to the media, myspace is the newest pedophile playground, the "it" thing for teens...
(no one was talking about e-pedophilia 11 years ago when i was 17 & the folks had just gotten a computer slick enough to handle the internet...hanging out in aol chatrooms, getting weird messages from creepy crawlies...but i digress)
...but for those of us in the 25 & older sect (pls excuse the party promotion lingo), myspace is also a way to link up with like minded folks: i've seen all kinds of activists, black & brown practioners of traditional/indigenous spirituality, folks pushing their art, organizations & individuals whose mission it is to educate & uplift their people.
leave it to the media to trivialize what has been and continues to be a means of spreading knowledge, ideas, creativity, and information.
yeah, there's two tons of bullshit floating around, too. and folks who take it far too seriously. the whole internet's like that.
it's all about what you make it, what you choose to focus on.
i like filling my sphere with poets, artists, dreamers...folks who know what it's like to be a star-shaped peg stuffed into a square hole.
ever since i watched rent the other night, "la vie boheme" has been running around in my head. some ppl look at me & automatically label me "boho", but in my mind, i've only lived on the fringes of boho-ness. yeah, i have the bookshelves full of books & the african decoration here & there, but as an artsy person? i'm something of a fraud.
maybe it's time i start surrounding myself with people who are creative all the time, not just when the office building doors open at 5pm.
i need to stock up on movies like rent and slam...even requiem for a dream. those sorts of images feed my drive to create something. make something out of the banality i'm handed most weekdays.
i think i want to be exposed to ppl living & loving their creativity, not shoving it in a box.
i should read more poetry.
today i am grateful for knowing when not to believe the hype.
2 comments:
now, u know i can relate... i give thanks 4 the employment that allows me 2 sit here 4 98% of my workday, drooling over beaches & vacations that i can actually afford, constantly allows me 2 have an airline tkt in front of me BUT i know that it's a trap & that if i dont get out, i WILL one day be one of those people who has no real life, no real ambition & no real interests because they have fallen away in the mediocrity.
like u told me - breathe it out, cover it with honey & send it on a wave of cool water... and let it be!
alafia!
traps & snares are abundant...hell, my gig doesn't even have all those perks. lol. but it keeps me & the witchy cat in room & board, so i can't complain.
but...there's definitely more.
=)
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