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hi, how are you
i hope well
daniel johnston sings as giant woman walks by - tb
1) everything i do creatively is absolutely spontaneous and comes from who knows where. take for instance this blog post. it was just this morning while sitting at one of my local coffee shops, a place i get the day rolling over a cup, a pen, a pencil, a note book all to write something, write anything. anything. where the goal is to finish that anything before i become aware of what it is i have actually been writing or doing. it was at the coffee shop that i got too thinking for some reason what would be the answer to that all important question "Where Has The Great American Blog Gone?". well, i aim to find out. this first post of 2022 is an example of that spontaneous process. here's how it goes this time.
i begin a new blog post from within this here website and just start writing that simple first word "hi" in the title space. needless to say the next three words flowed off the keys naturally "how are you". then of course the only thing that came naturally to mind after those words was the name "Daniel Johnston".
Daniel Johnston, the preeminent master independent low-fi outsider musician and visual artist of our time. below is his website link and other links to a couple of of his songs. mr. Johnston had a tremendous impact on me and of course he had no idea and most likely would have cared less about that fact. what i can say that i care about is i was fortunate enough to have seen him perform on a couple of occasions before his death. posted above is a photo i took of him with the guitar at the mic at a newberry park, ca show. i shot the pic from a low angle so as to catch the image through the legs of a passerby. yes it was a spontaneous moment and i have no idea what made me think that might be an interesting way to photograph someone. perhaps it was a subconscious way to convey the fact that most folk would probably just walk right past a guy like Daniel. a guy like Daniel who was giving his honest gift to the world. peace!
see tomorrow!
tom
mr. Johnston's website:
a tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKW2H0WBqW8
another tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4mCcF3jRG0
