A ramble about creative processes, deliberate obfuscation and civil blood

[badgermoonhare]

Early this morning, before either of us had really grown eyes, Hiro quoted a line from Romeo and Juliet that had stuck in her mind during the night, describing a town "Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean." The phrase careened through my brain like a school bus full of howling children and slammed into the concept of an EP that I am

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Down with the ship

[hiroaphasia]

"I have a very ambivalent relationship to obfuscation. It tends to annoy me, whenever it seems frivolous and unnecessary, and I often drift towards very straight-forward storytellers in literature or music. Yet I find myself making music that often starts out like a drunk telling a fairly cohesive story on one side of the road and ends up face down in the ditch on the other side, with a badger chewing his leg, before he has finished making his point. I guess the idea is that the most interesting part is the drunk himself, and what went through his mind, rather than what came out of his mouth. I am not the drunk in this ridiculous metaphor, by the way."

This is the reason that you and I will always be BFF. Seriously.

Re: Down with the ship

[badgermoonhare]

Sweet! You guys (and us guys) can be BFF, too!

[badgermoonhare]

Jul, you may feel dumb, but you don't sound dumb, at all! Your questions are good