Monday, December 5, 2011

The Artist, Conflict, Voices, and the Inner Mono(Dia)log

Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird, writing about the internal conflict that occurs while the writer writes or the artist creates:
If you're not careful, station KFKD will play in your head twenty-four hours a day, nonstop, in stereo. Out of the right speaker in your inner ear will come the endless stream of self-aggrandizement, the recitation of one's specialness, of how much open and gifted and brilliant and knowing and misunderstood and humble one is. Out of the left speaker will be the rap songs of self-loathing, the lists of all the things one doesn't do well, of all the mistakes one has made today and over an entire lifetime, the doubt, the assertion that everything that one touches turns to shit, that one doesn't do relationships well, that one is in every way a fraud, incapable of selfless love, that one has not talent or insight, and on and on and on.

Levi Weaver posted this video last week on youtube. It too is about conflict. I leave you to draw your own conclusions:



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