Run for that bus
You will not believe this, but I am actually writing this from home! Halleluja! We still haven't figured out the internet thing, but Graham has wireless and so somehow it works right now--yipeee! So now I can tell you that I am sitting on my bed, with my pillows and comforter fresh from all the things that arrived from California today---MY THINGS. I finally have my life here! Hip hip hooray! Let the villagers rejoice!
We spent the morning yesterday painting the office/studio a BRIGHT PINK. The inspiration was The Royal Tanenbaums, but I feel like I am in a room owned by PINKY TUSCADERO. It's so bright that when we shut the door it glows through the cracks between the floor and the door. It looks like aliens have invaded and are filling the room with majestic, brilliant light. VERY INTENSE. I am secretly really giddy about it. It feels like a good room to play in. It feels like a room that Maira Kalman created. I am very inspired by it.
I don't know if it was the excitement of the pink room, or my stuff coming, but I did something rather adventurous. I was reading SARK's Creative Companion, and my fantasy mind started whirling. Anytime I'm inspired by somebody I always start this fantasy whirling in my head about playing a show for them. I'll play a show, then they will be cowed by my INSPIRING and GENIUS music into wanting to be my best friend. Usually it's people like Benecio Del Toro or Adam Duritz--really really famous people. Famous people usually, psychologically, mean OUT OF REACH, so it stays in the *fantasy* section of my mind's bookshelves. Well, yesterday the fantasy thing started rolling about SARK. I actually think SARK might like my stuff. I mean, I am kind of folky (although the folk people don't think so) and kind of rocky (although the rock people don't think so), so she might actually dig what I do. So I took it the next step: I CALLED HER! I called her inspiration line and left a message about how I wanted to play a show for her--that it was a creative dream for me, that I usually just shelve such ideas under the fantasy section, but that I really wanted to make it come true. So I left it as an invitation for myself, and said that crazier things have happened, so why not play a show for SARK?
I don't know if it will happen--I kind of doubt that she'll respond, but WHO CARES! It was so exciting to step out of the mind and into the real world with a dream. It got me all gittery and excited, like I had just asked somebody out on a date. Life is really big, so why not? I never thought I'd live in New York, and here I am. Also, in 1994, when I had a big crush on Ethan Hawke and watched him in Reality Bites, how could I know that we would walk down the same street 11 years later? So why not this little dream?
My favorite quote by Julia Cameron is: "Pray to catch the bus, but run like hell to get it." What's something you fantasize about? What little thing can you do to make it a possability? Now say a little prayer and get running!
We spent the morning yesterday painting the office/studio a BRIGHT PINK. The inspiration was The Royal Tanenbaums, but I feel like I am in a room owned by PINKY TUSCADERO. It's so bright that when we shut the door it glows through the cracks between the floor and the door. It looks like aliens have invaded and are filling the room with majestic, brilliant light. VERY INTENSE. I am secretly really giddy about it. It feels like a good room to play in. It feels like a room that Maira Kalman created. I am very inspired by it.
I don't know if it was the excitement of the pink room, or my stuff coming, but I did something rather adventurous. I was reading SARK's Creative Companion, and my fantasy mind started whirling. Anytime I'm inspired by somebody I always start this fantasy whirling in my head about playing a show for them. I'll play a show, then they will be cowed by my INSPIRING and GENIUS music into wanting to be my best friend. Usually it's people like Benecio Del Toro or Adam Duritz--really really famous people. Famous people usually, psychologically, mean OUT OF REACH, so it stays in the *fantasy* section of my mind's bookshelves. Well, yesterday the fantasy thing started rolling about SARK. I actually think SARK might like my stuff. I mean, I am kind of folky (although the folk people don't think so) and kind of rocky (although the rock people don't think so), so she might actually dig what I do. So I took it the next step: I CALLED HER! I called her inspiration line and left a message about how I wanted to play a show for her--that it was a creative dream for me, that I usually just shelve such ideas under the fantasy section, but that I really wanted to make it come true. So I left it as an invitation for myself, and said that crazier things have happened, so why not play a show for SARK?
I don't know if it will happen--I kind of doubt that she'll respond, but WHO CARES! It was so exciting to step out of the mind and into the real world with a dream. It got me all gittery and excited, like I had just asked somebody out on a date. Life is really big, so why not? I never thought I'd live in New York, and here I am. Also, in 1994, when I had a big crush on Ethan Hawke and watched him in Reality Bites, how could I know that we would walk down the same street 11 years later? So why not this little dream?
My favorite quote by Julia Cameron is: "Pray to catch the bus, but run like hell to get it." What's something you fantasize about? What little thing can you do to make it a possability? Now say a little prayer and get running!
posted by Summer Pierre at
5:36 PM
4 Comments:
Now I know what my problem is, I hate running after buses! Another problem is that half the time I don't know what I want. I sometimes envy people like you because you have a dream and a passion. So what if sometimes you have to catch the next bus, at least you know which bus you want to get on!
Very enjoyable weblog, thanks.
Yay for you!
What an incredibley courageous step!
I was literally buzzing as I read your post- this kind of hope filled ACTION, has a momentum of it's own, which is inspiring and slightly infectious..
In line with this, I have a theory, that if you ask the universe for something- you will get it.
Now you can't always choose the form it will take, but ask, and thou shall recieve!
As logical deduction suggests- if you never ask, you'll surely never get it!
But like Kerstin says, this requires you knowing what you want!
(1/2 the battle for me too)
I have many of these 'crazy' dreams though.
One was to work in an art gallery- moreso as a way of demystifying the 'art world'..
I just approached my favourite gallery, offered my help- and now Im working there!
Good luck with the SARK concert!
And thankyou so much Summer for stopping by my site and taking the time to give thanks and other sweet sentiments- I really appreciate it!
Post a pic of the PINK!!
I think this was my favorite entry so far.....
Mykle's dad says "Trust in God, but tie your camel." (a Sufi saying-of course) I think it's basically the same deal. In sort of an inactive way, rather than a proactive way.
ahem.
If you played a concert for SARK you'd have to come to San Francisco! (hint hint that's where I live)
It's funny that you wrote about her, I just had to explain SARK to Orion, who thought the book "Succulent Wild Women" (that is lying around the house waiting for Summer to tell me if she wants it or not)- is a joke. I was like "you know the really friendly ladies that hang out at bookstores?" "This is where they come from...The Land of Inspiration!"
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