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21/12/2017 0 Comments Rock and RollI once heard a man say, rock and roll can never die.
I really felt something inside. I still don’t know the reason why... made me just.. wanna cry or wonder Was I born at the wrong time did my soul get lost?... distracted by the pinkish light turning circles burning bright as I fell through, into this life. Now, as a human I understand that inclination to romanticize the past But sometimes it just must be true - that everything was better then, I don't mean just cars and shoes The timeline is like a sound wave's re-itteration the valley disappears with vibrations but the day will come, the way will shine to that valley one more time we'll pick up from '69. That day will dawn upon a new, human celebration of love.. and what it means to be alive to be always with curious minds to live this life with open eyes as the new rock and roll plays in the sky when I heard a man on TV say “tear down this wall” the Cold War appeared to thaw, the curtain fell, the actors gawked, the king and queen were visibly shocked but the part of the show I most remember was the day I realized the writer had us all along in the grips of his pen i don’t believe this story ends. -Alex Sharp Cole 1/5/2016 0 Comments Where do ideas come from?When it comes to lyrics, I find it especially interesting that many of the questions I hear seem to involve some iteration of the phrasing where do they... *come from.* If I feel "blocked" -- the thing that helps me, most of all, is just to stop trying so hard.  MATAMOROS, MEXICO - taking a break during the recording of the electroacoustic concept album and sound art piece "Submadreamgun" (Alex Sharp Cole) -- the completed version of which was presented later that year at an art exhibition in San Francisco. ("Into the Hollow") Not only is perfectionism's "disciplined" approach unnecessary -- it is actively destructive. It makes beginners feel like they aren´t good enough and experts feel like they are never, ever finished. It is the worst.
The concept of perfectionism is Puritanical and ludicrous -- it presupposes that all we do in the name of "discipline" (a joyless activity) has a positive effect on creative output. The truth is quite the opposite. The destructive consequences of this all-too-prevalent attitude in the western world is so extreme that it can destroy the confidence of its practitioners. 28/4/2016 0 Comments A Message for "the Kids"I wish that all the kids in the West and, why not, the world, would decide to rebel against their parents at the exact same instant. And in that moment, all the war and prejudice in the old world would be gone.
It would be a collective decision to unite in the name of rock n' roll, or some other high ideal. "... the kids from Brooklyn to Tehran fell into the same silence / as the kids out West with TV sets stopped to listen for a moment / a new world was born . . ." |
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