I attempted to think of a catchier
title for this particular blog post, but as I am sitting here listening to 80's
music on Spotify, I fear I'm losing all sensibility and creativity to Air
Supply, Journey and Flock of Seagulls.
What is this madness, and is it only temporary?
The internet is a hindrance to the subsets of my mind because
every time I try to look something up or research a topic, Google makes me 'run
a rabbit' with my thoughts and I somehow, ALWAYS end up just Googling images or
articles about Scott Caan.
For an under-tall actor, the man has
a body that won’t quit, a face that melts my soul and the best part about him;
he’s a writer! A damn good one at that!
[His latest play, No Way Around But Through, is currently
running at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank, CA http://www.falcontheatre.com/ through
July 8; and no – I’m not getting paid to print this]
Enough about Mr. Caan, because this post
was not originally intended to be about him – that’s just the way he pops in
and out of my head most days.
I just worry sometimes that my brain
doesn’t have the ability to run through the colorful plethora of thoughts and
emotions that pop up when I’m writing (and oh Lord, Beastie Boys just came on
my play list; I’ll never get through this Blog post…)
What I mean by that (the statement
not pertaining to the Boys) is that I don’t always type as fast as the thoughts
swirl around in my brain and by the time I finish one thought, another has
started and before I can even rationalize that thought, three more are bull
dozing it out of the way, flailing about and screaming “PICK ME! PICK ME!”
Is it like this for every writer? Do
I have to find a way to separate these thoughts, divide them into subcategories
and file them away for later use? Or should I just keep doing what I usually do
and muddle through?
Corey Hart? Really? I had this
cassette my junior year of high school…’You
can never SURRENDERRR’
Okay, perhaps I should write without
the music turned up…in case you haven’t guessed it by now, this is called
muddling through. Not just my thoughts
but the visual and audio stimulants that surround me on a daily basis that my
brain is not able to tune out, yet no doctor seems to think I have attention
deficit disorder.
SQUIRREL!
But I digress, because that’s a good
segue to my final thought which is this: my ability to deviate from a topic but
jump right back to it after I express a more current thought is decidedly tainted.
I really was just going to blog
about Scott Caan.
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