Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2348 Joined: 21 Aug 2008     | |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 360 Joined: 11 Oct 2008     | While I was working on my presentation last night (that I started over at 3 AM and had to present at 10 AM), I was listening to Snow Patrol's new album on repeat. Usually, though, Muse is my, well... muse of choice (ah, puns weren't intended but it happened anyway). It's the speed that helps me write, because I need something to help keep my momentum going. Granted, I feel like my writing has taken a nosedive off Everest, but oh well... Muse also makes me play my bass more often, as I tend to be listening to a song and go, "Hey, do I have the tabs for this?" So... Muse is my muse. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1503 Joined: 6 Sep 2008   | I do drugs and drink. It's quite inspirational. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2599 Joined: 6 Jun 2008    |
The suffering of my peers. Also rhythmic rock (think Bittersweet Symphony). |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 730 Joined: 29 Feb 2008   | As strange as it is whenever I get stuck in something or cant think of what to do I pace up and down whether I am stuck on a puzzle in a game or cant think of what to write next on a piece of work (I only do this at home of course). |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2538 Joined: 29 Mar 2008    | A deadline thats all It takes to inspire me |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1416 Joined: 9 Jun 2008  |
Yep, plenty of inspiration to be had with the ole drugs and alcohol. I wager 35% of everything I've ever posted on the internet has been done while drunk. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1710 Joined: 2 Jan 2008     | I smoke pot, especially before studying or doing homework. I have no real reason to think that it actually helps me do these things, but it's become a ritual and now I never do anything important for school without a good bowl. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 765 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 | My inspiration comes in the form of taking three other works and mushing them togethor to make something original. Its The Matrix meets Night at the Roxbury meets Lawrence of Arabia! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2146 Joined: 7 Sep 2008    |
Ditto. That, and watching a fantastic musician play........Doesn't really matter which, though. |
On the Record  Posts: 5973 Joined: 7 Feb 2008    | Deadlines are good. Very good. Unfortunately for me they need to be real, not self set deadlines. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1566 Joined: 8 Oct 2008    | Listening to "He's going the distance" or "the final countdown" gets me going; but when there isn't any music around or I start to slack off I just slap my self in the face and scream GO TIME! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2108 Joined: 13 Dec 2007  | PurpleRain. And generally not listening to any music is best, as it'll just distract me. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1129 Joined: 11 Dec 2007 | cigarettes, its nice to take a break from what I am doing, and take a look at it from a different angle. Something about killing myself helps me think. |
On the Record  Posts: 5491 Joined: 13 Aug 2008  | Um, I have food programmes on in the background normally. It makes me hungry, but I do really good work. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2599 Joined: 6 Jun 2008 |
Like a strawberry shortcake screen saver? *Snicker* |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1931 Joined: 9 Sep 2008     | I used to write. Short stories that I would fire off into the vast void of the internet, never to see or read again. Inspiration could come from anything from an awesome cinematic to just standing in line at a bank. Then I sat down one day, to add noise to internet and discovered I couldn't do it anymore. That's when I turned to amateur trolling. |
On the Record Posts: 5491 Joined: 13 Aug 2008 |
No, like Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 360 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 |
I often wonder if I'd be a better writer if I smoked, but my asthmatic lungs won't allow me to find out. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2599 Joined: 6 Jun 2008 |
Okay then... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1554 Joined: 10 Sep 2008  | Money is always a good incentive to getting me do do stuff. |
On the Record  Posts: 5674 Joined: 2 Dec 2007   |
Aww. Actually, to tell you the truth, you were the one that rekindled my love of english once more. Especially after high school killed my carefactor for it. You had me running to the dictionary on many occasions and reassessing how I write/talk. So I guess I'll have to put you down as my biggest motivator for any of my writing. |
Paperboy  Posts: 39 Joined: 8 Oct 2008  |
Having a deadline helps for sure. But watching a 'superior' player play is somewhat daunting for me.. 'Holy crap I'll never get anywhere near that.' When writing songs I usually block out the world to the point when I can hear my guitar/instrument and my thoughts. That's when true 'ideas' come to the surface. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1809 Joined: 8 Nov 2008    | http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4smim2MNvF8 Inspired me to play And this what I want to accomplish http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf5GQhdbrzs |
Beat Writer  Posts: 193 Joined: 3 Dec 2008   | i take all the bad shit that happened in my life and use it.. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 382 Joined: 12 Sep 2008     |
I have to say that just inspires me to love again. Anyhoo, i listen to music constantly especially orchestral music from the Romantic Period. Other than that a little bit of Bach never hurt anyone haha :) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3086 Joined: 13 Jul 2008     | One of the things that inspired me was "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead, especially the line "The crackle, of pigskin". That cruel metaphor really had an impact on me.
Too many people do this nowadays, I believe. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 95 Joined: 9 Feb 2008   | Whenever I need to write anything, I imagine that I am an esteemed academic (I stop short of impersonations), or whoever fits what I am writing. It sounds stupid, but it works for me. |
Red Guard  Posts: 4930 Joined: 14 Oct 2007  | I take inspiration from a lot of things. Music's a big one. I've written, painted, drawn and played with a single song stuck on repeat. Certain authors have much the same effect, especially in inspiring my habitual essays. Pratchett's one, Orwell another. Other artists inspire me by way of competition. I've been known to brows DeviantArt, cursing the ego-crushing skills of some, then vowing the next instant to one day outdo them. Same goes for various tattooist who I hold on shiny pedestals of idolisation. They do such fucking pretty work.. and they get a lot of really attractive people to pose naked and show it off. Ahhhh. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1075 Joined: 4 Sep 2008 | Google images. And failblog.org. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2490 Joined: 18 Sep 2008  | video games inspired me to get into science. it never made sense why i don't have a battle cruiser. there is still plenty of time |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1614 Joined: 4 Jul 2008  | I lisen to Pandora Radio(streamed internet radio), on the rage against the matchine channel. Its a nice backround when im typing. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 75 Joined: 27 Oct 2008   | When looking for inspiration it really depends on what I feel like, sometimes I need silence and the chance to collect my thoughts other times I need music to help me concentrate but often I find I don't even need anything, I just start and can't stop, this has been the case for many a school projects. |
On the Record  Posts: 5012 Joined: 28 Feb 2008  | Escaping the Horrible Yellow Box. |
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I would like to set this thread up as a place to discuss the things that inspire you to do, well anything, from write, to speak, or maybe your a trained musician.
Whenever I write anything longer than a few sentences I listen to hip-hop, especially songs with fast rapping, it puts a lot of words, or phrases, in my head that help me when I am trying to find a way to word things.