DECLARATION #1: OBSCURITY IS A FAITH WITH WHICH TO GRAPPLE
feb 16, 2005:
I am fundamentally an obscure human being. I've made my music independently and sporadically for over a decade now, and never once bothered to try and figure out how the MUSIC SYSTEM works, how to succeed within that system, how to connect with like minded people within that system, how to make any significant life for myself from that system. Instead I make my weird little songs, sing them for the people who are closest to me, occassionally bully up the nerve to get into a festival or do a big show, but never with any real regularity. And yet I spend lots of time by myself thinking obsessively about what I do.I have recently been flouting the word OBSCURITY as a bit of a proud pretense, I have been trying to send out a message that my OBSCURITY is nothing more than an ingenious scheme to preserve and protect my art. But it dawned on me today that OBSCURITY easily conceals FUNDAMENTAL SHYNESS, a characteristic, which if left untreated, can be a danger to THE ARTISTIC PATH. FUNDAMENTAL SHYNESS can prevent one from taking risks, reaching out, even dreaming.I must therefore be careful to clarify my devotion to OBSCURITY. I must be able to overcome the OBSCURITY which is cultivated through FUNDAMENTAL SHYNESS, in order to achieve OBSCURITY which results from one's committment to THE ARTISTIC PATH.
I am fundamentally an obscure human being. I've made my music independently and sporadically for over a decade now, and never once bothered to try and figure out how the MUSIC SYSTEM works, how to succeed within that system, how to connect with like minded people within that system, how to make any significant life for myself from that system. Instead I make my weird little songs, sing them for the people who are closest to me, occassionally bully up the nerve to get into a festival or do a big show, but never with any real regularity. And yet I spend lots of time by myself thinking obsessively about what I do.I have recently been flouting the word OBSCURITY as a bit of a proud pretense, I have been trying to send out a message that my OBSCURITY is nothing more than an ingenious scheme to preserve and protect my art. But it dawned on me today that OBSCURITY easily conceals FUNDAMENTAL SHYNESS, a characteristic, which if left untreated, can be a danger to THE ARTISTIC PATH. FUNDAMENTAL SHYNESS can prevent one from taking risks, reaching out, even dreaming.I must therefore be careful to clarify my devotion to OBSCURITY. I must be able to overcome the OBSCURITY which is cultivated through FUNDAMENTAL SHYNESS, in order to achieve OBSCURITY which results from one's committment to THE ARTISTIC PATH.
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