RE: "*Leave* something beautiful"
Joe Cross (JCROSS@CTMSINC.com)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:17:16 -0400
Yeah, and get this, his name is (gasp) Michael McDonald!!!!
Yahmo Be There, Up and Over.
Joey
P.S. No more posts from me today. Must work. I need to go back and reread
all of the Salinger stories so I can get on topic. Oh yeah, I also need to
gain about 50 IQ points!
-----Original Message-----
From: citycabn [mailto:citycabn@gateway.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 4:34 PM
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
Subject: Re: "*Leave* something beautiful"
Joey,
I enjoyed your post. That's some front man!
--Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Cross <JCROSS@CTMSINC.com>
To: 'bananafish@lists.nyu.edu' <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 12:01 PM
Subject: RE: "*Leave* something beautiful"
><<The gift comes and goes. As W.H. Auden remarked, a poet can never be
>certain, after writing one poem, that he will ever be able to write
another.
>Training and experience can never be completely counted on; the "breath",
>the "inspiration" may be gone forever. >>
>
>
>Yes! I think the same thing. Not that I'm some great writer, but when I
>write something and I'm truly inspired it just jumps out of me onto the
page
>and I laugh and find it funny and imagine others reading it being equally
>entertained. But once finished, I feel sort of drained and uninspired and I
>wonder if the inspiration will ever return. And it hasn't really been there
>since the summer of 1998.
>
>And I think the same thing about the front man in our band. He writes some
>beautiful songs and I hear them and learn my parts to them and I just think
>'wow, how does he do this so often. does he not ever worry that he'll run
>out of inspiration?'.
>
>He doesn't even know what he's doing. He just does it. He's a true artist.
>
>Joey
>
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