Last Wednesday I managed to get out of work early enough to catch the last few songs Amanda Palmer played for Occupy Boston on her ukulele. I arrived in the middle of a rendition of "Two-headed Boy" that reminded me all too well of the Jeff Magnum show I was lucky enough to make it to last month. One of the last songs she played was a new tune called either "The Ukulele Anthem" or "Play Your Ukulele," she hadn't decided which, and I don't remember voting on it.
The song was wonderful, and it made me think of two things. First, to just keep going and doing what feels good and right, because in the end that instinct is all you really have to guide you. Also that I have a ukulele that I bought in high school and it has done nothing for the past few years but gather dust.
I guess I've been doing more consuming than producing lately. I've always believed that you have to absorb and process the world around you in order to chew it up and spit it out into something worth doing, but there comes a point where you can only eat so much and your jaw gets tired of all that chewing. Lately I've been trying to keep up pace and make something of everything I've absorbed, I guess ever, but it's tough keeping up sometimes.
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