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Mash
Sometimes I'm just sitting here working on something (grant application?) when suddenly a line, or a quote, or a riff, or something just pops in my head.
Today, this came to me:


Everybody's rappin' like it's a commercial
Acting like life is a big commercial

Beastie Boys. "Pass the Mic" from Check Your Head. No real reason why I thought of this. I wasn't listening to the Beastie Boys. No commercials on. Just me and this proposal battling it out. No connection whatever. No logical reason. No causality.

I don't know what to make of such moments. Occassionaly, they serve as points of inspiration. I have written a couple articles like that (and started one recently on folksonomy that way too - "This is folk music," Dylan protests at Newport, and suddenly I have an idea). The moment as invention is not popularized in any textbooks I know of.

  • Take a lyric you remembered today, a conversation you overheard, an image you barely saw, a flashback, a person whose face won't leave your mind, a moment of anxiety, or some other brief moment you experienced, and use it as the beginning of a piece of writing.

    The moment meets up with larger issues, ideas, movements. A mashup invention style. Writing as mashup.

    So what does this Beastie line tell me.....what.....?

    Replies: 6 comments

    This is the 1st line of my comment...and this is the 2nd

    Posted by John @ 11/22/2005 03:14 PM EST

    You people are strange. Perhaps you should seek a psychologist for your wanttobeblackanoma. I am sure there are medications available.

    Posted by umm @ 11/11/2005 01:11 AM EST

    s'up bboy

    your dis is like piss
    yellow and stained
    like your lil brain
    i run raps round your head
    like water down the drain

    word out

    up up and away

    Posted by ggirl @ 11/10/2005 05:07 PM EST

    Yo. Smack the freak shine up the head, aiiight?

    I said "hard," yo, not "impossible."

    Posted by bboy @ 11/10/2005 05:04 PM EST

    yo yo yo
    keep it real, bboy

    play it on the lame, wontchyou???

    commercial rhymes with Churchill

    every bboy b knowing that, g!

    word

    peace

    out

    Posted by ggirl @ 11/10/2005 04:18 PM EST

    "So what does this Beastie line tell me.....what.....?"

    Uh, could it maybe be telling you that "commercial" is a hard word to rhyme?

    Posted by bboy @ 11/10/2005 04:10 PM EST

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