Performance 101; Dream-Crushing Footage
and while I am on the subject of performances...
as a performer you have to rate yourself as such... a performer. which means you have to somehow relate your status next to this guy:
I watched that video, and then said to myself, "Do yourself a favor, watch that whole thing again, take a shower, and cry yourself to sleep tonight, because Justin Timberlake just took everything you thought you could offer entertainment, dropped his pants and took a dump on it". That guy is better than Michael Jackson. Now; if a less capable band were even ABLE to sell that many tickets... could they hope to add up to that kind of show and perform that well? That guy doesn't have bad nights... What a monster.
Inspiring (or dream-crushing) video number 2 for the day:
Jimmy Rosenberg is a genius gypsy jazz player who can't stay clean... That video is almost twenty years old. Although his story is tragic, the good news is that he still plays today:
as a performer you have to rate yourself as such... a performer. which means you have to somehow relate your status next to this guy:
I watched that video, and then said to myself, "Do yourself a favor, watch that whole thing again, take a shower, and cry yourself to sleep tonight, because Justin Timberlake just took everything you thought you could offer entertainment, dropped his pants and took a dump on it". That guy is better than Michael Jackson. Now; if a less capable band were even ABLE to sell that many tickets... could they hope to add up to that kind of show and perform that well? That guy doesn't have bad nights... What a monster.
Inspiring (or dream-crushing) video number 2 for the day:
Jimmy Rosenberg is a genius gypsy jazz player who can't stay clean... That video is almost twenty years old. Although his story is tragic, the good news is that he still plays today:
Labels: jimmy rosenberg, justin timberlake, Video
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Mice: What books should a writer have to read?
EH: He should read everything so he knows what he has to beat.
Mice: He can't have read everything.
EH: I don't say what he can. I say what he should. Of course he can't.
Mice: Well, what books are neccesary?
EH: He should have read War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Midshipmen Easy, Frank Mildmay and Peter Simple, Madame Bovary, L'Education Sentimentale, Buddenbrooks, Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses, Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, Le Rouge et Le Noir, La Chartruese de Parme, The Brothers Karamazov and any two other Dostoevskis, Huckleberry Finn, The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel, Hail and Farewell, Yeats' Autobiographies, all the good De Maupassant, all the good Kipling, all of Turgenev, Far Away and Long Ago, Henry James' short stories, The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady, The American-
Mice: I can't write them down that fast. How many more are there?
EH: I'll give you the rest another day. There are about three times that many.
Mice: Should a writer have read all of those?
EH: All of those and plenty more. Otherwise he doesn't know what he has to beat.
Mice: What do you mean "has to beat"?
EH: Listen. There is no use writing anything that has been written before unless you can beat it. What a writer in our time has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. The only way he can tell how he is going to compete with dead men...
Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.
EH: Then you ought to be discouraged.
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