2001 10-30 - Music Idea - MC Seer

I have decided that my musical moniker will be MC Seer. This idea came from reading that the Homeric bard's tradition of excellence was attributed to, by invoking the Muses for the song, that the bard wasn't telling tales or "making it all up", but the bard also never "learned" the story. It can be said that, within the realm of the normal man, hardly anyone can do what the bard does. To me this makes them magical - seers. I should come up with a rap that celebrates my unique and intimate relationship with the muse (sexy song), a bragging song (I'm not the best, I'm the only), continuous, linear story songs, songs about celebrating great people...

2001 10-29 - Lit Idea - Phantom Limb

Phantom Limb - Apendage that one has grown so accustomed to and med to that even when it is gone you can feel it.

2001 10-29 - Lit Idea - Modern Life and the Long Dead

"The Modern Life of the Long Dead" - Write about how powerfully alive are the ancient and dead traditions such as Greek epic... Make it a modern story (Rap?)

2001 10-29 - Lit Idea - I thought I was Alone

"I thought I was alone" - about trying to find a place bereft of God's eyes thinking they only be in animals, but realizing they are in each atom.

2001 10-29 - Lit Idea - The Modern Life o fthe Long Dead

The Modern Life of the Long Dead - Write about how powerfully alive are the ancient and the dead traditions such as the Greek epic... Make it a modern story (Rap?)

2001 10-29 - Poetry - Poetic Victory

Victory in this poety contest - to know more about the battle/nature of early poetry see "Homer - The Poetry and the Past" by Andrew Ford (p. 26 footnote 32) Can this tradition be clearly seen in today's rap? What are the theoretical roots of rap? They seem to pay much due respect to ancient Greek poetry... oddly enough.

2001 10-27 - Lit Idea - Purple Passage

Purple passage - noun: a bullshit passage in an otherwise dull and uninspiring work. Or a piece or writing marked by ornate floral style. AKA purple patch, or purple prose

2001 10-22 - Lit Idea - Dynamic vs. Static Character Development

Experiment with static vs. dynamic characters: Bizarly dynamic characters - people that can only change so much / so quickly... to dynamic is unrealistic. Totally static is also unrealistic, but not as much. In this way Homeric characters were feasible (not overly-simple). Explore relationships beetween the characters designed (in relationship to the level of dynamics) in how we see ourselves these days. For example, we are told wee can do anything so our characters and issues revolve around charge and personality.

2001 10-22 - Lit Idea - Story Development

Begin developing a story each night - the same story... modify each night. Write when it is really good.

2001 10-20 - Poetry - New Wave

Poem: Where I think it's going: About the present and possible future of a relationship as an analogy for America's future with relation to the world

2001 10-20 - Quick Quote - Dead Fingernails

Like fingernails, the dead keep growing

2001 10-18 - Quote - Big Ideal

"What's the big ideal?" - Smyth Ologos

2001 10-05 - Music Experiment - Johnny Cash

Listen to old Johnny Cash music to hear interesting "ghost like" reverb on vocals

2001 10-15 Lit Opinion - Quality Literature

A quality piece will have elements that in a quiet way indicate the primary element that will, on first read, surprise us. The strength of these little atmospherics or philosophical arguments aree the ultimate and lasting strengths of the piece.

2001 10-15 Lit Opinion - Children's Writers

Great children's writers are key-holders. They allow the untrained imagination and intellect the exercise necessary to be able to later climb to higher hights in the abstract world for understanding this here world.

2001 10-15 Lit Idea - Smith Ologos

Smith Ologos: Wordsmith. A story teller

2001 10-15 Lit Idea - Character Choices

Be careful when choosing characters and particularly their adornments: Their shapes if not human, their houses and cars... observe and reflect on your gut choice and the alternatives; they can be crucial details that provide the spine of the story, make it feasible, express unsaid suggestions about their personality.

2001 10-12 Album Idea - From the White Void

Make an album "From the White Void." Every odd track is a cacophony. Every even track pulls an element or a group of elements from thee previous dyn and forms a song based on popular white motifs. The point of the even tracks is to exploit the dominant culture and reduce its otherness.

2001 10-11 Poem - Untitled

Summer months warm
as old guitar with nylon string
new best friends
in a pot slowly boilin'
a warm you only comprehend
when the chill sets in
at the airport
and you didn't event get
an address

2001-10-08 - Album Title

Album Title: And When You Finally Tore A Bloody Way Out Of My Stomach They Were All Mainly Disappointed - The Art of Exploiting Faith

2001-10-07 - Story Ideae

Design a story in which many classic structures of peril, with philosophical power, are heaped upon a character who shows no emotion effect to the weight. E.g., buried alive, lost in space, out of control machine...

2001 10-07 Quote - Art's Enemy

Knowingness is the enemy of art

2001-10-05 - Key to Psych

I have found a key to be alone, to others, and to yourself. I am not sure to what this is the key. It may be success, relevance, genius, narrow-mindedness, detachment, nerd-ness, any or all of these. It may be the key to good, bad, or both. But perhaps too much time is wasted considering useless valueless things...

2001-10-04 - Album Idea

If I make an album I should try listening to it in a few different environments (car, cheap stereo, computer speakers, etc.)

2001-10-03 - Short

My horizon turned inward, unexpectedly

2001-10-02 - On Dares

A dare is only good "at the moment", that is to say thee moment the dare is made the response must follow. There is no suspense, bravery, or tragedy in something you have entirely prepared for.

2001 10-02 - Development ideas

Design a character who remembers only theh harrrowing problems s/he has encountered and never escapes. He also remembers theh tranquility off the safety which followed.

2001 10-02 Lit Opinion - C.S. Lewis First Thoughts

C.S. Lewis argues that there are only 3 distinctly recognized times in which we studied and philosophised about the story and its pleasures (Aristotle, Bottocio, ...) I do not belieive this is true. The oral tradition, ultimately soul of hte story, laces and graces our history and much more. All the way from a gathering around a fire or around a table of food and drink we have we have studied the story's potent potion. Rap carries this on with all the reverence it deserves. Pop carries itt on half-wittedly, but to some great successs. Poetry flounders, but I have hope... When critics see better, more useful work from our time they will change their tune about the occult reverence it is shown.