Random Thought Generator

Is my mind really random?

I mean I think I'm pretty creative. I used to do this thing where I'd sing songs to myself as a kid and make up songs about whatever was around me. Now, this could be very amusing, (I imagine), for anyone around me, and I must admit it was something I did to entertain myself, (I was a bit of a loner kid), but was I really doing anything new?

Also I do this when I'm in the house alone...

I bet lots of kids sang songs to themselves whilst whittling away the hours of the day out of boredom. Heck, before iPhones and video games were popular, that's really all we had. Now we are so bombarded with "original" content to fixate us and entertain us and most honestly help us escape reality, that we can't come up with any original thought of our own. So then is the saying, "there's nothing new under the sun," entirely true?

YES.

I really do believe that it's all been done before and it'll probably be done again. The cycle from beatnik to hippie to hipster all follows a pattern.

WOOO! FULL CIRCLE!

So if I want to be truly creative and not recreate something that's already been made, then I have to do something that hasn't been done before. Impossible. The next best thing?

Do something no one alive or at least people you know have ever seen before or even heard of within your century.

That's why my Christmas gifts this year of random song creation based off words is so much fun for me, it's really me just getting to give with the part of me that works best. The makeitupasyougoalong muscle is probably the strongest muscle I have, next to the actlikenothingiswrong one. I want to believe that in all the songs I made up, (link after the jump), I was being new and different, as I'm guessing most people hope they are being. I bet though, that at the heart of everything, I was just recalling old memories and silly facts from my life. My creativity was nurtured in me, cultivated like a garden. Now my garden looks one particular way, but who is to say that someone else's wasn't nurtured the same or can achieve the same results through a slightly varied process.

Heffer was raised by wolves, and look how good he turned out!

All that to say, I'd rather be authentic than original. Even if it has been done before, I don't want to know that it was. Maybe I am following in the footsteps of someone before me. I get to choose though. I surround myself with the people I want to become like.

Well. Here's to being... me.

Have a pleasant tomorrow!

~J

Bonus video!

The First of Many

At it again...

So I'm at it again I guess. Blogging that is. I don't know why I decided that I wanted to do this again but it seemed like I needed to put my thoughts down somewhere, so I figured on the internet where everyone can read them seemed as good a place as any. I am going through an interesting place in life... a place I haven't been ever before and writing down my experience helps me look back and read what I thought about that point so later I can say, "WOW, I was so stupid for thinking that." It's really rather encouraging so I'd recommend you all try it sometime fo sho.

Here's where I am in life at the moment.

• Single
• Working at Wells Fargo 
• Working for the Church doing videos
• Working for Pure Lightning Productions
• Writing music that isn't doing anything for anyone
• Out of a car because I'm too dumb to realize that if your tags expire you should probably get that taken care of before it costs you an exorbitant amount of money in fees and you should also pay your parking tickets because you'll end up living in a van down by the river otherwise...

So about this time last year I decided to do a gift thing for a bunch of people and being as I'm poorer than dirt I decided to do something that didn't cost me anything. So I grabbed my friends camera and began filming and improvising songs for each and everyone. Well, now it's one year later and I am right back at it. I'm going to do this again for some friends and asked them to leave a one word comment for me to riff on for 30 seconds. Let's do this. 

Here's a list of last year's videos. I know I made a lot but if you want an idea of what to expect this year just click a random video and enjoy!

Have a pleasant tomorrow!

Dan Oh

Tiana

Stephen

Ryan Sevy

Ryan Breland

Reggie

Philip

Patrick

Parveen

Parker

Nick

Muthoni

Mercedes

Megan

Lola

Lisa Johnson

Laurissa

Krystle

Justin Conkey

Jovan

John Rowe

John Mihara

Jeny

John Brewer

Eric Keener

David Moshier

Daniel Mastrolonardo

Dan Oh

Christa

Caleb

Britney

Brandon Bockman

Becky Ryan

Ashley Rice

Angie

AJ

Adonis

One for everyone!

Hope you enjoyed!
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