Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Watch as I try to break my writer's block

Is there anything more frustrating than writer's block? I've looked up all this advice online, nothing seems to work. Normally I don't like to write about having it because it looks amateur-ish (then again, I'm never fully satisfied), but I guess I could give it a shot.
The worst part is that I know what I want to write about: a song about the things about the world I'm ashamed of. Like how people are fakes, children are controlled by stage moms and hard-as-rock fathers, how fantasies are just that and nothing more, things like that. I just can't get it started.
I hate when I write about one thing and it turns into another. A song about wanting to run away turns into one about escaping with your love that, when you look at it, sounds like it could be on Radio Disney. I waste a lot of paper this way.
Two songs could help me: "Northern Downpour" by Panic! at the Disco, and "Stop and Stare" by OneRepublic. They are two incredible songs that inspire me to write the kind of song I'm thinking of. However, I'm stuck. I don't know where to begin.

If anyone has any tips on breaking writer's block, please let me know.

Monday, December 22, 2008

10 Reasons to Date a Bowler

Warning: PG-13

1. We work well with multiple balls
2. We know how to hit it hard
3. We always come in at the right angle
4. We know how to pick it up
5. We take a fast approach
6. We know how to bend & stay balanced
7. We like it oily
8. If not oily we know how 2 work it dry
9. We have incredible aim
10. We are great at scoring

Monday, December 15, 2008

Pessimist in Denial

Ever felt like you were never happy at home? Or you were only happy at home? Either way, you feel you don't go there enough. Maybe we just anticipate our happiness so much. We see it coming, but we'd like it to always be there. So I'm trying to look forward to any part of tomorrow if today just doesn't cut it. Maybe I'll find my happiness easier. At the same time, though, I don't want my expectations too high just to watch them crumble before my eyes.
I'm not always like this. I used to think the sun shone around me all the time. Lately, however, I've felt like one of those annoying, depressed-looking crybabies.

Monday, December 8, 2008

As night falls

During the day, we have too much to do to contemplate our problems. Maybe your job is time-consuming, maybe homework is difficult, maybe you have kids that take up most of your day. We don't have time to sit back and think through whatever problem we feel we need to face.
That's what happens at night. As night falls on our shoulders, so does the weight of the world. We try to find a way to fall asleep.
If you're like me, you may start daydreaming until it bores you to sleep. That can lead you to any problem you've ever had to face. You can start remembering everything that made you unhappy that day, then that week, that month, and so on. In your head you say things you never had said and probably never will say. You feel like a screw-up and count the reasons why. Keep telling yourself, "I'm not going to cry, I'm not going to cry." Sometimes this works, other times it's just a countdown to the waterworks.