Beyond Axel Rose...

i saw the most amazing thing today. never seen anything like it. in feeble attempt to pretend i have a shadow of a social life, i went to watch a musician who found me on myspace music. i planned on getting early, of course i was late. i got to the subway just as the train was leaving and then i transferred onto the express train. ha, bad joke. there is a dude on the train with his face in the seat in front of him. not moving. and i guess since a few weeks ago some dude lay on the train for about 24 hours before folk figured out that he was dead, a passenger reported this guy to the conductor. so we were delayed while the conductor went to get a metal stick to bang right next to could-be-dead dude who turned out to be merely semi-comatose dude. so i was late, but that wasn't the amazing thing.

the show starts and i look up from my drink to watch the musicians and the man straight ahead is the base guitarist. sounding very good. looking, well, quite awful. but in all of this i was deeply inspired. i am thinking the man hears the music in his head, feels the rhythm and follows the beat and plays the bass guitar for all it's worth. but this same man moves to something else completely. dancing his heart away as he strummed away on his guitar. musically schizophrenic i tell you. i would be bopping away (and i believe i have rhythm) but as soon as i looked his way i would lose it. i never thought it possible - but there it was. how can a person have no rhythm and yet have it. and why was i inspired?

because it means that maybe i can have no drawing ability and yet have it. like this, i am thinking perhaps i can find that i may fail as an artist and yet succeed. possible? well heck, i saw a man bopping away to some techno beat in his head (looked like) yet playing stevie wonder's superstition, excellently. apparently, anything is possible.

"yes, even you can draw" here i come!! mom may just have to find something else to laugh at me about... watch this space!