Do your song choices on Spotify reveal your innermost thoughts, feelings, beliefs and dreams?
I mean who you really are and what you really want. I mean the person you present vs the one behind the roles, masks and games.
Are they aligned?
Do your choices in life represent YOU?
Be aware of this.
Adjust accordingly.
Music can be used wisely. But it can also awaken forces within which may be better kept in the shadows…
I love Slayer and Coldplay and Mahler and Robert Johnson. The chaos, the madness, the devil, the beauty, the angels, the tenderness. I want it all. I love ALL. But I am all of that and what you see is a reflection of what you perceive.
I’m not just some choir boy singing about love (although that too). I’m the lord of light burning down churches to stay warm and keep the zombies at bay.
I don’t like Bowie’s music much but I love it too because of his style and the legend and I love to know why it hasn’t made me obsessed yet and it’s so easy to just say it’s not good or shrug it off. I love how big the impact was when he died and people missed him.
I need to listen to more Bowie. I want to buy those fancy photography books and look at his fashion and then listen to his albums and maybe Lou Reed’s Berlin period which I also never GOT yet because I was busy studying other geniuses.
In my line of work, writing things off and dismissing them because of personal preference, is unacceptable. Many musicians do that. They are not REAL musicians. They are just in it to be cool or something. They are not cool either.
I was once in a studio with this “pro” engineer and he kept on saying you can’t record guitar like that. I told him there no rules. I walked out and never worked with him again.
Learn to appreciate what you don’t like. Study it. Know why you don’t like it and why you like what you do. Don’t be lazy with your intellect. Be curious. Explore. Study emptiness. Study suffering. Study form. Don’t just sit around playing to a metronome.
Music is not just engineering. It is more than that..
Every moment is an opportunity to learn about whatever is going on. Maybe your family just died or a hurricane is breaking loose. Evil forces are just dark rooms without light. There is evil in your pupil.
Create your dream.
Become your ideal version.
Already have what you want.
Live as if it’s real.
At least that’s a good start.
You suddenly enter the world of The Artist.
Creativity, play, freedom, dance…
Endless possibility and “wonder in a lover’s moon” (like Bolaño wrote).
Welcome to my world honeybunny.
Make yourself comfortable.
All bets are off.
Elon Musk is trying to fly here. He doesn’t understand what a true billionaire does. But love him too. He is you.
What you call heaven or hell (and the world wars this causes in the outer/inner worlds), I call HOME.