Time to work out the kinks.

Sometimes, you spend too long consuming and forget how to produce. I cracked out my brain on too much easy-to-consume Internet culture. I'm more or less unable to focus and barely am able to bring myself to write coherently.

However, I still got creativity. Now, granted, a random hobo on the street can start coming up with ideas. "Hey! What if they filled a rocketship with cheese and made a porn movie about it! And then handed out the cheese to people on the street. And I could star, and it would be awesome, just AWESOME. All the women and the free cheese. Awesome."
And they sit there, thinking how awesome it would be. Welll, my little buddy Ze Frank (Sports Racer 4 life... cough... www.zefrank.com/theshow) likes to call this mentality 'Brain Crack.' Mmm, brain crack. You come up with a concept and enjoy the hell out of it, and that's as far as it goes. It stews in your mind, and you enjoy the HELL out of it.

Anyone can do that, and most of us do. We're all trapped in the confines of our daily lives. We come up with interesting ideas to convince ourselves that we COULD do that if we really wanted to. According to Ze, the reason we don't do it is we're afraid of failure. I think we don't do it because we're afraid of the consequences. We're giving up the sureties of daily life for something new and different. And we're often guilted out of expressing our creativity too.

I like to think of myself as a creative person. I am well aware posting on Blogger doesn't make me an awesome contributer to the Blogosphere, or an Important Person. But as I rant and post doodles and escape for a moment from the dull repetition that is life, I hope that I can make the first steps toward breaking free of the expectations of the people around me, and do things that are truly inventive, new, and sane.

Here's to recapturing sanity. Here's to abandoning life as we know it. Here's to 1:30 AM and God knows what else.

Brainstorm. Then Do.

There is no try.