When people talk about a muse I never really understood until this last year when I’m at the sky that I knew in high school that I hadn’t seen in 25 years. And I had written poetry over the years one poem here and there on a scrap of paper that disappeared into the abyss of my house somewhere probably getting thrown away by my ex-husband. But this guy he inspired something in me and I’ve written probably 12 to 15 poems in the last year at least. Mostly about him I’ve shared them with him he didn’t realize at first they were about him. But it wasn’t until like the third one that I realized that he was inspiring me to write again that he was my muse. And then I finally understood what it was. He kept asking me why don’t I publish a book why don’t I share what I do with other people. So I made this Facebook page that is just specifically for my photography and my poetry and my artwork and to him that wasn’t enough I don’t know where to go with it from here yet. But I have continued to write and whatever things end up being between him and I he was brought into my life for a reason and he inspired me I’ve been inspired by many people in my life but this was different. When I was younger I was inspired by the bad things that happened to me this time around I was inspired by the feelings in the hope that he gave me. After the serious jibber jabber interview with Jack and Conan I was inspired to paint more intensely again I sent that painting to Third Man in it’s probably in a stack somewhere. It’s still the thing that I have spent the most time on of any painting I’ve ever painted it took me 2 years to complete it. So I hope wherever it is maybe someone will be inspired by a someday. And to Danny hang on for this ride because you’re going to go through so many changes and let it happen.

Thanks for sharing! Great reads from top to bottom on this post.

I grew up in a warm family with my mother, my brother and my sister. We did not have a lot of money, even for dutch standards, but my mother always let us listen to music. All kinds of music on the radio. Records (in the 70’s and 80’s) were to expensive for my mother to buy, so we listened to the radio every day. If we were not playing outside, like most kids in that time.
But because of my mother and her putting on the radio every day, i now have a collection of over 2500 records and vinyl singles as well over 750 cd’s.
I guess i just want to say: Thank you mom, for opening my ears to all kinds of music!

Im a senior in High School and within the past year I have really gotten into photography through an AP art class I’m taking, I even had a photograph displayed in a local art museum which was pretty mind blowing for me. I like taking pictures that are inspired by songs and I love making them appear as though there is something happening in them. Anyway Ben it would be really cool to hear what you thing of my pictures.

https://layethan.weebly.com/concentration.html

P.S. the one that was in the museum is the one titled “rhinestone eyes” Also my instagram is tell.psd if thats easier

When I was in junior high, I had a very hard time (like 99% of most pre-teens). Me and my friend Judson were always scheming on some grand idea. One of our better assets was our creativity. We were both huge fans of Cracked magazine and to a lesser extent, Mad. We loved the satire and parody and it appealed to our 12-year-old senses of humor. We decided to write, illustrate and publish our own version of Cracked and came up with Weird-Mag. We did our own parodies and even included a games section, which we cleverly included mazes and puzzles which were unsolvable. We followed Cracked to a tee in that our magazine was 52 pages and we charged the $1.35 cover price. But our material was completely our own. We went to my dad’s work where we photo-copied each page and made around 100 copies to sell to our classmates (we sold out). My dad’s boss made some remark that Saturday I was diligently making copies that he was going to kill my dad, but I honestly think he admired our fortitude.
We were well into writing our second issue when a rival group of kids stole our “master folder” containing everything we were working on for that issue. These wanna-be’s published their own (far inferior) version. Of course, our zine was a tribute to Cracked and Mad. Theirs was a complete rip-off ours (I think they even plagiarized a couple of our ideas).
Weird-Mag never went further than that first issue, but it was a grand time. Judson and I would go on to concoct other ideas that included a summer camp for kids and a snow-cone stand. But weird-Mag remains one of the crowning achievements of my otherwise awkward junior high years…

I’m 17 and I’ve been in three bands. Each has got progressively less crap, but we’re still in the crap stages right now. That doesn’t bother us at all. I have nothing but admiration for kids my age who are capable of doing such cool stuff. There are guys I know who are succeeding in their music and the scene I’m from is such a great and supportive one that I’m looking forward to joining them. As a kid myself, I can tell you that this is the best feeling. I’ve been teaching myself about art and music, and when you start to find your niche it feels like anything is possible. I intend to prolong this feeling until me and my band accidentally become the new Melvins. Shoutout to TMR and Blackwell for teaching me about the possibilities of the underground xx

Nothing on my end but very actively support my kid’s chase of the dream. From endless hours of drum practice, to the post secondary music recording/production school, the recording of two albums in his bedroom, to endless nights in dives, legit venues, the woods and even an igloo, and finally the financing of album three so it can be done in a studio. It’s been fun, it’s been a privilege and I can’t tell you how cool it is to hear a couple hundred people sing a chorus your kid wrote.

My girlfriend’s brother is an extremely talented guy, and deserves all the success he can get. I’m sure if he knew I was sharing it he’d been embarrassed and say the stuff he’s working on now is much better, but this is still something special.

Listen to Small Window – EP by Finnbarr Corr #np on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/user-437656815/sets/small-window-ep

Mr. Blackwell, I am forever grateful! When I checked my mail yesterday I was surprised to see a package from TMR. I did not order anything recently so I was wondering what could it be? I opened the package and much to my excitement and amazement it was the Brendan Benson tri-color! Thank You! Love TMR! btw … I have a Prius and Priuses of a certain age are known to have that problem but I love my car anyways.

honestly… all of my youth was spent painting and drawing oversized images in places where people were not expecting them and hoping they might stay up as approved art….. it was all a big misunderstanding … like that one time someone told me “sure go ahead” when i offered to paint a giant mural of the evolution of all species climbing up the stairwell wall while they were on vacation…. i figured she was a scenic painter so it all seemed well founded until she came home to it and lost her mind because told me she was only joking… all in all no harm done….. i reviewed some very cool bands in maximum rock and roll and narrowly escaped wrecking my granddads car that i ‘borrowed as an unlicensed and underaged driver’ one night so i could go hear MDC and Maurice/Slint play… as it is …. nothing compares to piling in the car with all my friends and making it just in time to see all those once in a life time shows such as the who and gang of four and stranglers and clash and cramps knowing that such things are gifts from the great unknown… life was wild then