I just spent the past thirty minutes thinking... what the hell?
Maybe I'm alone here on this, but I think a few million people missed out on what is actually genius and what is a pot of uncooked rice.
I stand by my words.
Alright now, here's the gist since graduating. I've had job offers, film offers, bad boyfriend offers -- and the thing is, they are all lacking BIG time. I would much rather spend my time not making money rather than working for a pitiful company. I am happy, things are provided, therefore a job is not about money for me (hallelujah!). I don't want my name attached to your bad film, I'm sorry I want to believe in it-- but no, if it has no basic story for me to follow then I doubt it's going anywhere victorious. And why, in all that's gracious and glorious would I ever date someone who can't keep up with me? I am a loser, no doubt everyone is, but why should I lower my expectations for a terrible relationship when I am perfectly happy single? THAT is insulting to myself.
So here's the writing lesson for the day -- you need magic. You need to believe and you need to learn and keep going. I'm not going to stop by and make friends with someone who only says "meow." It's lackluster, it's stupid, you need a backbone in everything whether it's a company, an artistic project, or a relationship. Nobody wants that putrid stuff clogging up their precious hours of time, so just say "no."
And here's my reason why you should befriend the word "no"...
If you truly want the awesome to happen, if you really want to find beauty, if you actually have a desire for greatness, then go get it. It exists so there's no reason you should be wasting your time on, in all do respect, shit. We're not going to be mamsie pansies right now. There is absolutely no reason for shit in creativity. None. If you don't have it, take a class. Do what it takes to find it, but it's gross when you work for a company that doesn't know what it's doing, it's gross when you're on a film set and it's a disaster, and it is big time gross when some juvenile delinquent twenty something thinks they're hot stuff when someone as clever and devious as I am can knock them down to size within thirty seconds. (Something my ego relishes in).
These, my friends who have stumbled on to these somewhat wise words, is why I am a snob. I will help you with writing, I will teach, I will preach, I will do everything I can to help you shine more -- but when it comes down to the bottom line, if you're not up to speed in this competitive world of ideas then you need to rattle up your perspective and find a much greater world of imagination. No one should have to put up with the bad. If you can't do it, find someone who can take your visions and make them sparkle. That's what it's all about -- vision, not the stuff clogging up your colon.
It all comes down to one thing and that's your mind. If your mind is not exercised and ready for true, fantastic creative energy than you're going to make a fool of yourself when the true bands, the true heroes, and the true artists rise up. No one wants to sit and listen to a bad band; I know you have to learn somewhere and I applaud that. You do in fact need to stand and face the crowd, what I'm talking about is you've got to keep digging deeper and deeper otherwise... you are a false artist. In the end, people do not want to pay for bad art, for a bad concert, and so on and so forth. The remote control is one click away. Your star employee is just seconds away from walking out the door. Women will gladly slap your face.
Don't be unreasonable. You've got to be charismatic with this stuff. You have to be real. And the most important thing of all: you have to enjoy it, otherwise you're a slave to some industry and that -- is just as terrifying as bad art, the world's finest self-inflicted torture.
This may be the Simon Cowell buried deep below my surface, but I have respect for a man who had to see so many terrible auditions and have to wait for just one true, pure awesome singer whether or not they ended up spreading their wings after the competition. You do not want to be the fool that all of America laughs at from an American Idol audition. You do not want to be a joke. THAT is self-inflicted torture. And you can do better with your life and your creativity (whether or not said talent was the correct soul-mate for you.)
This isn't about writer's block or having a fear to get started and plunge into the depths of an artistic medium; this is realizing that without faith and having a road map in your mind of where you're supposed to be headed with a particular talent, you will end up a vegetable in the creative realm which every last human being should be free and able to experience. I can't understand why anyone would settle to be a vegetable when they are a fully fledged human being.
Yes, dare to suck. BUT in daring to suck you must have a vision of where you are going. If you don't have that -- what is the point of suffering? Daring to suck will help you to find humility, it will help you to realize your weaker, under exercised areas. What is most important in daring to suck is having joy for criticism. If you don't find joy in the criticism, feedback, and so on -- the creative world will crush you.
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