The picture challenge and your montage song!

Some of you may be confused by all of the Princess Leia slave girl costumes from yesterday's post; they were really loosely based on what I was talking about. If the costumes themselves were that loose the women in them would have been naked.

Most of the time I try to carefully choose the pictures that I use to enhance whatever I'm talking about, and since I've started doing it I find its a real nice form of storytelling. Beyond that, what better way to make a point; afterall, a picture is worth a thousand words.

There are times though, that for whatever reason, the mood I'm in or the story I'm telling, feels a little heavy. No one likes to be a downer, and that's certainly not what we're going for here, is it? When I'm reading one of the pieces I've prepared for you and catch that in the tone I look for something to pick it up, balance it out. It always comes back to balance, doesn't it?

While I realize that it may turn some of you off, so will crying in my cheerios, so I hope its only off putting for a bit. Besides, what can be more iconic than Princess Leia? The real reason behind choosing those pictures was simple though..... I couldn't decide which one to go with, so I used them all.

I'll have to find a creative way to make it up to the ladies, all my female fans out there (which is most of my readers, surprisingly), that makes me use nothing but pictures of dudes that won't make me sick. THAT my friends, should be interesting. BUT.... part of the entire reason behind this mess is to get those creative juices flowing, so I'll come up with something cool; its a good challenge.

I'm all for a creative challenge. I love the damn things. Often, when you're writing everyday, it can be hard to come up with good topics. And those of you who read me all the time can by now tell the difference when I'm really feeling something. With this, and even more so in my storytelling, what I use in my fiction for my books, when you're really feeling it the story just writes itself. As the writer your only job is to just let it happen. All the best things in life happen that way, don't you think?

That's probably why I enjoyed the short story book that I've been pushing so much. I think every one of those stories had been something like that.

One of the stories in that book, "A Moment", one of my favorite pieces that I've ever put down, took ten years to write. I had the idea, but it took meeting the right person and one of my worst days in life to happen in order to put it all together. From there it just flowed through me, and now because of it, one of the dearest creatures to ever touch my heart will be with me forever. Not that I needed the story for that, but I get to share her with you, which you couldn't experience otherwise.

I've got a lot of talented musician friends, and many of them tell me that for them its the same thing, the music just flows through them. Well.... I'm always looking for new ways to tap that flow.

So here's a little something different for you, a way to make things more fun, and get this spot on a whole new interactive level..... you pick the pictures and I'll write something based on them. Pick out any ten random photos that aren't porn and I'll see what I can do with them. Sent them to john@maddoser.com

In the meantime, maybe you can help me with something I've been trying to decide since WAY back to my very first post "I NEED TO FLY ON THIS ONE!". If you haven't read that one you really should. I've come a long way since then now that I decided to clean it up, but just be warned, its full of swearing and toilet humor. Actually, that's probably all it is.

Anyway.... what would your montage song be?

Every time I think of the answer a hundred songs fill my head. Most of the time I learn towards Tom Petty's "Learning to Fly" because it seems to fit where I am right now.

Though I'm really not too sure that a slower song would do, a montage should be fast and upbeat, no?

That's not where I'm at though. For a moment I thought "No Rain" would work perfectly....

"All I can say is that my life is pretty plain...."

But a montage is supposed to show you getting things done, progressing through the major stages of your life in a three minute musical mosaic.

Still, "No Rain" fits pretty well right now. Trouble is... who wants to watch a three minute clip of me sitting around doing nothing in all its various forms for six months? And sadly, right there, if anything does, that statement just about sums up my sorry state of affairs.

DAMN, I NEED A MONTAGE!

The real answer to the montage question probably lies in what you want for your life in the next few weeks or months though I suppose, if we had that choice. And since I'm stuck on Tom Petty anyway, I'm going to leave you with the montage song I'd choose, one of my favorite of all time, if mine were a love story.

Yeah.... that'd be cool.
That's what I really want.

What about you? What would be happening? What would your song be?

Later People!



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