Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Filler while I procrastinate a blog on procrastination

 Putting pen to paper, whether your drawing realistic shapes, nonsense, or rattling off word after word.  There is something beautiful to the sound of pen to paper.  Go ahead, try it, it's nice.
 I also find a certain liberation in the clickity-clack of the keys when thoughts are flowing like a mountain stream through your mind.
Extended periods of busy-ness and stress,  without fail resulting in emotions that are tied up in knots all throughout our body need to find a way out.
In my experience, everything and anything can inspire the words that live inside, but I've found that music can be the great muse to draw them out.
Here's five albums, songs, bands (in no particular order) that inspire me, not just creatively (there's plenty of others for that).  This is the music that inspires me to pour myself out to an anonymous piece of paper . . .


1.  Miles Davis - - The Essential Miles Davis
2.  Sigur Ros - - Anything, stuff from "Takk", but really also anything
3.  Iron and Wine - - The Trapeze Swinger
4.  Death Cab for Cutie - - Transatlanticism, the album, but especially the song
5.  The Album Leaf . . . of course!