"youthful"

it's a frigging exciting time to be young!

can you feel the creativity all around us, all above us, all beside us, all beyond and all behind us? everyone everyone everyone is believing in the arts now. poetry's a blazing. young art's all daring. this digital filmmaking revolution is opening all sorts of doors for a potential cinematic renaissance. the politics of the world may be in all the wrong places but art has the chance to turn it all around. art. the reinvention, the exploration, the breathtaking... and not just your typical paint and pastel or pen and pad art. i mean all sorts of art, art forms that we haven't even envisioned or considered yet. our energy can dive into anything, like methods of activism, philanthropy, organizing, and lobbying, and freshen it up in brilliant ways. we're gonna explode, just watch. creative heads everywhere are going turn to the sky and come up with all sorts of ways to fly.

and can you believe that i'm saying this? the disgruntled artist of yesteryear is now optimistic and passionate?

if you've lost your inspiration you'll find it again.

i've been checking my e-mail with eager anticipation lately in dire hopes of discovering:
- internship information at youth speaks
- a yes/no to the student teacher poet position at P4P
- a nice hello from dj shadow

fingers crossed, fingers crossed.

i got a few cds today too. an rjd2 one. a tommy guerrero one. and dj shadow's unkle.

if you haven't gone cd shopping in awhile, go! support your favorite musicians! i just realized how badly the musical piracy must be really hurting some musicians out there. and not the greedy ones. the ones who are trying to make enough money to support the next cd.

oh, and if you see or notice something beautiful, take note of it somehow. a real sad feeling is the impossibility of remembering a forgotten beautiful.

dope song: unkle's rabbit in your headlights if you don't know what unkle is, it's a collab project where dj shadow teams up with other musicians like radiohead and badly drawn boy. lonely soul is a good one. rabbit in your headlights is dj shadow and thom yorke's crybaby love child.