My third contribution to TZM Music Project, now retitled (to my great pleasure) Zeit Tunes!

All credit to Seth Rosen — Original video (no seizures/music) can be found here: http://vimeo.com/13725496

song: Excision – Know You

Since this video was unjustly banned from youtube (they ignore parady fair use exemptions, apparantly), I fair-used it up some more with some fancy music and video effects. :)

They ended up banning it again but I won my fair use claim… :)

I’ve also started making videos for the TVPMusicProject. This is my first contribution. The song is… hectic, to say the least, and I tried to make a video to match. :)

song: TVP Planet Earth – Czar Gomez
video: Aaron Moritz (http://youtube.com/saydaysago2008)

Look at these lyrics:
“Life is not a spark in space, an episode of Will & Grace, controversial yet mundane, Debra’s Messing with your brain.”

It’s an observation about life (as compared to an episode of Will and Grace [which is controversial, yet mundane]), and then to take Debra Messing’s (the actress who plays Grace) name and using ‘messing’ literally, that takes creative thinking. Not to mention you can bring it back to the life observation, ans talk about how ‘mundane’  TV is messing with our brains. My interpretation anyway.

But that’s a lot of thought and meaning to squeeze into one line, especially one that on the surface seems so silly.

I’m not here to dissect Say Anythings lyrics, and I’m not here to say there’s anything special about that band, because there isn’t. What I’m saying is that we tend to dismiss each others creativity for various ego reasons. We encourage each other to ‘critique’ everything an artist does. Rather than respect the fact that they are doing anything creative at all, we learn to pick things apart, find anything we don’t like and use it as an  excuse to dismiss a band or a book or movie.

You can say you don’t like something, but to say it’s not ‘good’. What the fuck does ‘good’ even mean? It’s subjective.

Not everything is for everyone and that is what’s great about all this media saturation online we’re experiencing. To me, Charlie from the Love Police is a celebrity, but his videos generally only get around 10,000 to 50,000 views (sometimes up to 100,000), and thats tiny by television standards. But who cares? His creativity is touching people and that’s all that matters.

And what is creativity? Am I creative? Maybe not, lot’s of times I can’t even think of my own post titles. I use song lyrics.  ”They let us play with markers, but I keep trying to draw infinity” is another Say Anything line. “But if I wait for a Holiday, could it stop my fear?” is a Vampire Weekend line.

That whole post I did from the Edmonton airport last month was stylistically a complete rip off of the Love Police.

I wear my influences on my sleeve. I take words that other people have said and use them the way I want to use them. We’re never actually making something new, we’re just building on the backs of hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution.

Carl Sagan: ‘if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe.’

I guess what I’m saying is that all creative enterprise has merit. Don’t shit on music or movies you don’t like, just accept that some things are for you and some aren’t. Arguing over whether something is ‘good’ basically amounts to verbal masturbation.

…….. to end some quotes i found searching for the title of this post:

Abraham Maslow:
The key question isn’t “What fosters creativity?” But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

Beatrix Potter:
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Michael Vance:
Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.

“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”
- Marie Antionette

Sometimes in the morning I am petrified and can’t move.  Awake but cannot open my eyes.

And the weight is crushing down on my lungs, I know I can’t breathe
and hope someone will save me this time

and your mother’s still callin you insane and high, swearing it’s different this time.
And you tell her to give in to the demons that possess her.
That god never blessed her insides.

Then you hang up the phone and feel badly for upsetting things,
crawl back into bed to dream of a time when your heart was open wide
and you love things just because… like the sick and the dying.

and sometimes when you’re on, You’re REALLY fuckin ON
and your friends they sing along and they love you.
But the lows are so extreme that the good seems FUCKING CHEAP
and it teases you for weeks in its absence

But you’ll fight and you’ll make it through
You’ll fake it if you have to
And you’ll show up for work with a smile!
You’ll be better
And You’ll be smarter
And More grown up

And a better daughter

Or son

And a real good friend

And you’ll be awake
You’ll be alert
You’ll be positive though it hurts
And you’ll laugh and embrace all your friends

And you’ll be a real good listener
You’ll be honest
You’ll be brave
You’ll be handsome and you’ll be beautiful

You’ll be HAPPY

Your ship may be coming in
You’re weak but not giving in
To the cries and the wails of the valley below

And your ship may be coming in
You’re weak but not giving in
And you’ll fight it

you’ll go out fighting all of em

Please listen to this song  and tell me you aren’t moved.

Maybe it’s just me.

- Propagandhi