tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-04-05:2867713Drunken Owls and Other DelightsWho am I, and what have I done with me?jon_chaisson2017-05-01T21:12:51Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2017-04-05:2867713:916940Through Fields of Joy2017-05-01T21:12:51Z2017-05-01T21:12:51ZLenny Kravitz, 'Mama Said'creativepublic0I've been listening to stuff from 1991 all morning and am currently on Lenny Kravitz's <em>Mama Said</em> album from April of that year. I've never been the biggest LK fan, but this particular album resonates with me. I think it's because it's such a spot-on homage to 60s British psychedelia. It's also that it was released during my sophomore year in college, which I think is probably when I was happiest during my college years. Sure, I still had moments of being a miserable twat and still a bit of a naive idiot, but I'd also finally found a close and stable circle of friends (only two of whom I still have contact with at this time, but I digress...). <br /><br />Part of this optimism was because I'd really gotten sick of being that moody bastard that felt sorry for himself. My long-distance relationship was kind of rocky at the time, very on-again off-again, and I'd gotten so exhausted by being the living embodiment of a Cure song that I needed to rectify that. I was bored by the unrelenting pathos of my writing, and I was REALLY bored by my own irascibility, and I need a change, STAT.<br /><br />A lot of that new energy was channeled into new writing projects. The Infamous War Novel was set by the wayside for the time being so I could focus more on songwriting, practicing on my bass (and a dorm neighbor's acoustic guitar), smaller creative endeavors (mainly my Murph drawings and a hell of a lot of maps drawn in the margins of my notebooks), and my creative homework. I was finally taking a few film production and writing classes, and though I would soon realize I was a better wielder of words than cameras, it was a blast to finally be experimenting with the visual medium.<br /><br />Oh, and starting the summer of 1991, I'd stay in Boston instead of heading back home. I'd be broke as fuck most of the time, but I still had my music and my writing! And a really enjoyable day job at the school library that would keep me busy and entertained until I graduated.<br /><br />This is the mood I'll be trying to mine while writing <em>Meet the Lidwells</em>. I hope I can pull it off! :)<br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jon_chaisson&ditemid=916940" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments