| Author | Message | ||
| Genevieve B
New member Username: guitarwhispers Post Number: 1 Registered: 06-2006 |
I always like having music play while I'm writing, especially when I've got writer's block. It helps me relax and get in my element. I'm always trying new types of music to help me out...any suggestions? Usually I'll just listen to music without lyrics or classical music, but I'm lookin for something new. My coworker from UMGD just introduced me to this compilation CD called Eclectic Cafe and it's become my new writing buddy. It's really mellow and since it's a mix of artists they all have their own unique style that keeps me interested. One of my favorite tracks is called "Don't Wait Too Long" by Madeleine Peyroux...it's got a mellow Billie Holiday feel Check it out: http://71.18.69.253/w/Dont_Wait_Too_Long.wma The album just came out last week I think so if you're looking for inspiration or at least some mellow music to help you concentrate, I would highly recommend it! Anyone else have suggestions for some good writing music? | ||
| Ava South
Valued Member Username: avasouth Post Number: 232 Registered: 05-2006 |
If I had heard this on the radio, I would have guessed our Billie was the artist. I would love to have the CD. I find a walk around outside always inspires me. And lately I find myself thinking in verse constantly!! Ava | ||
| Teresa White
Intermediate Member Username: teresa_white Post Number: 751 Registered: 01-2005 |
Genevieve! Welcome to Wild! And what an interesting question for your first post. I have no idea why but there have only been less than half-dozen songs that literally ever helped me to write a poem. Probably just chance that these are my favorites...anyhow, without further adieu, I love Steve Earle's cut "By The Rivers of Babylon." I mean I'll play it over and over and over again for days on end. Something about the agony of the yearning ...the cry of the people that pushes me towards the creative climax. In the last couple of years, I've added Leonard Cohen's "The Future" and, finally, Aaron Neville's version of "Ave Maria." Be interesting to see what others have to say... ~Teresa | ||
| Karen L Monahan
Advanced Member Username: klhmonahan Post Number: 1141 Registered: 08-2004 |
Oh! I'll bet that's a great CD. When music is the inspiration I have found it to be in the "Old" favorites like blues, jazz, and classic alternative. Now, I have also written while listening to old rock, new rock and the backyardigans. (wink) My latest CD was the Rod Stewart's classics one. Which was great the first few times I listened. I bought it for the song "Smile" which is prolly my favorite all time melancholy-mood song. Mostly though, I write when I have the time and the inkling. The rest of the time I'm just thinking about getting the inkling to write. Welcome to Wild!! And what a great first post! I look forward to reading your work. (((smile))) Karen | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 7791 Registered: 11-1998 |
Old, old woman here rattling in on her cane to tell of two musical artists that help in the writing process. For excellent instrumentals (no lyrics to cause a break in concentration), try Jeff Burak who has only produced one CD that I know of called "Change of Pace." Or anything by Jim Brickman. Soothing, mellow -- in other words, these two have everything you're asking for, Genevieve. Thanks for the question and welcome to Wild! Best, M (Administrator) | ||
| Fred Longworth
New member Username: sandiegopoet Post Number: 42 Registered: 05-2006 |
There's this chemical, Museathion, originally developed for exterminating the Purple Sierra Weevil. A tiny dab of this behind the left ear (no one knows why behind the right ear doesn't work) causes an immediate outpouring of poetry. Some people get carried away. They dip a rag in the stuff and drape it over their head like a scarf. They ingest so much Museathion they fall into a poetic rapture: babbling, rolling the eyes, unable to walk without swooning. It's no wonder the FDA's thinking of reclassifying it with heroin and calcium supplements. Fred | ||
| Jeffrey S. Lange
Valued Member Username: runatyr Post Number: 213 Registered: 10-2005 |
Fred, I hate to burst your bubble, but when Museathion was banned in both Tibet and Poland last year, the FDA decided to reclassify it with brothalamide, the known toxic agent in coffee. The upside to that is that you can still drop some in your coffee, but placing it directly behind the ear is illicit. It is now being produced (largely in Peru) in coffee-soluble capsules to prevent ear dropping. Experts report that the creative output is still greatly increased when the agent is mixed in coffee, but at less dangerous levels. Two extremely prolific poets in North Carolina who were arguably abusing Museathion have sued the FDA, though their case was dismissed in a lower court and is now awaiting process at a state appellate court. ~Jeff (Message edited by runatyr on July 01, 2006) "I had a lover's quarrel with the world." ~Robert Frost | ||
| Ava South
Valued Member Username: avasouth Post Number: 245 Registered: 05-2006 |
Here in Texas, Museathion is availble over the counter in every drugstore and even at the Dollar Stores. It is mostly used for the telling of tall tales and the famous Texas brag stories. It is manufactured up in the hill country where there are cattle ranches. It is refined from cattle dung and is added to things like beer, several brands of chips, coffee, and of course, most any fast food on the market. Commonly known as BS, I think you two gentlemen have been ingesting it. Have either of you been eating any of the foods listed above? It's mostly harmless, but has been known to build up in the system causing the ingestee to be full of it. Ava Ava | ||
| Karen L Monahan
Advanced Member Username: klhmonahan Post Number: 1152 Registered: 08-2004 |
Yeah, Huses processing plant has a mess of it, but, dang! them cows are happy. Most folks just take a pinch between their lip and gum, I've never heard of putt'n it behind your ear. Queer customs you fellas have. (((smile))) Karen | ||
| Kathy Paupore
Senior Member Username: kathy Post Number: 3440 Registered: 12-2003 |
Music also helps me, I put on my head set, tune out the environmental noises, kids, TV, etc. and write. I think instumentals would put me to sleep, so I favor artists with lyrics. A walk in the woods or by the creek helps, so does spying on nature. I find my best time to write is early in the morning, my head isn't filled with the day's noise. A quiet house also helps.  K Wild Flowers | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 7814 Registered: 11-1998 |
I've dropped some Museathion with the Chichimeca Indians down in Mexico. We mixed it in with the Peyote buttons. Of course, it is very difficult to distinguish which psychedelic visions are the result of the Museathion and which can be attributed to the Peyote, but we did determine if you fell to the ground unable to speak in anything but Elizabethan sonnet structure (especially if you were a Chichimeca Indian who didn't know how to read English), it was probably the Museathion. This was, of course, an uncontrolled experiment. I will have to attempt to reproduce the results under laboratory conditions and then let you know. Love and Laughter, M | ||
| Gary Blankenship
Senior Member Username: garyb Post Number: 8422 Registered: 07-2001 |
In Oregon, Museathion is legal over the counter, but sales are controlled. Outside of the state university campuses, the only outlet is in Portland in an alley behind Powell's. Organic, of course. The fumes often waft into Powell's causing a run on books in the poetry, art, gardening and oddly enough motorcycle maintenance sections. What is little known is that Powell's and Rougue Brewery are co-owners. Smiles. Gary A River Transformed The Dawg House July FireWeed more War/Peace | ||
| steve williams
Board Administrator Username: twobyfour Post Number: 733 Registered: 05-2005 |
If you search your junk mail box, you will see clever ads that advertise museathion under aliases of other drugs. some claim that taking one, orally, will produce, written, a full fledged poem in a few hours, sometimes two. Others claim that taking one will 'prime the pump' so when you do sit down and write, as many poems that you will need will be readily available, at least for the next 24 hours. The FDA frowns on this and has restricted the bogus prescriptions for this most popular drug. However, Canadian pharmaceuticals have made a fortune marketing pseudo-prescribed drugs to the American poet. It has however become poetry's dirty little secret. So few 'natural' poems are produced these days. Its so difficult to tell the difference between enhanced poems and those that are not, and thus herein lies the popularity and the stigma of admiting to doping. Americans have recently begun to ask doctors to write prescriptions for museathion to themselves and direct the patient, who is hopelessly blocked, to pick it up at the Rx. No self-respecting poet wants the press to get ahold of poems created under the influence. regardless of which version of museathion you use, please be aware it does not work for everybody. If you ingest a pill and after four hours, have not produced a poem, you must go the nearest emergency room and have the words extracted by cat scan, or aspiration, or indigestion, or inspiration--yeah, that's it, INspiration. s | ||
| Ava South
Valued Member Username: avasouth Post Number: 249 Registered: 05-2006 |
Dang it all, does the gummiment and doctors have to meddle in EVERYTHING? After all, it's medicinal in that Museathion gets all that excess poetry gets out of our systems, sort of like a natural purgative? We wouldn't want all those words backing up in there, would we? Ava | ||
| Karen L Monahan
Advanced Member Username: klhmonahan Post Number: 1156 Registered: 08-2004 |
No worries Ava. You can get it in a suppository, just call 1 800 AGGIE-IQ. | ||
| Gary Blankenship
Senior Member Username: garyb Post Number: 8423 Registered: 07-2001 |
Mixing with Nehi, reduces the worse side effects, except sour apple flavor which aggrevates a tumbling of words. Smiles. Gar A River Transformed The Dawg House July FireWeed more War/Peace | ||
| Ava South
Valued Member Username: avasouth Post Number: 250 Registered: 05-2006 |
Any excuse for Nehi, eh Gary? What flavor do you recommend for the famous Nehirita? Does it have to be lemonlime or would orange do? Ava Ava | ||
| Gary Blankenship
Senior Member Username: garyb Post Number: 8424 Registered: 07-2001 |
Nehirita or Dr Nehi's Revenge takes a special fusion of 10 parts grape, 1 part mint, 1 part tea and a pinch of a special potion available only by ordering from the Nehi Keyholder. Prices available upon request. Smiles G A River Transformed The Dawg House July FireWeed more War/Peace | ||
| "A-Bear"
Moderator Username: dane Post Number: 1760 Registered: 11-1998 |
Just returned from Vegas. The folks there are more advanced than I dreamed imaginable. One minute I was standing in New York (on stage at Coyote Ugly), and suddenly, as if by the magic of Excalibur, I was in Paris and Egypt (all at the same time). Years ago they pumped oxygen into their casinos to keep the customer alert, which in turn, would allow the rube to gamble more. Now, they are using Museathion. It’s extremely concentrated and overflows (in massive amounts) onto the sidewalk areas. Its street name is SIN. It’s everywhere. What I liked best about SIN (i.e., Museathion) is what happens after being exposed to it. It doesn't stay in Vegas like the commercials claim. You do take it with you when you leave. And God knows, I’ve been inspired by it.  Viva Las 'something' or the other, D | ||
| Teresa White
Intermediate Member Username: teresa_white Post Number: 765 Registered: 01-2005 |
Genevieve, You've really started something here. Funniest thread I've read in quite a while. Museathion--of all things. LOL And we all know that laughter is the best medicine. (And I do try to get my recommended dose --shoot, one never knows when the FDA will outlaw another drug.) Thanks again for posting this thought-provoking thread. ~T. |
