Tag Archives: Originality

Progress-Limiting Habits

Posted on May 24, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

We’re creatures of habit. One of our dominant modes of learning is repetition. We start slowly, but by developing a habit for doing, we improve incrementally. We get better at things by doing them over and over again, initially badly, … Continue reading →

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How Do You Engage the Emotionally Unavailable?

Posted on May 14, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

Research indicates that lyrics have gradually become less positive, over the past 60 years. Our tunes contain more swear words and have gotten sexier too. There are more references to having lots of money. It’s all a bit grim and … Continue reading →

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Industrial Metal – My Accidental Part in its Rise

Posted on April 15, 2020 by tropicaltheartist

Here are some potentially unrelated facts: I build guitars – from wood. I built a guitar in my early twenties. It had a giant hunk of brass embedded into its solid Queensland Maple body (a now seldom seen wood with … Continue reading →

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Art Smuggling

Posted on October 3, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

There’s something important about LP records that the inventors of the compact cassette, compact disc and streaming music services evidently failed to grasp. If they were to be believed, these music delivery formats had a single function – to deliver … Continue reading →

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Chasing Perfection

Posted on September 20, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

Here’s an interesting tale. As a guitar player, I’m like most of my guitar playing brethren. We’re all on a seemingly endless quest to perfect our guitar tone. I found something very close to ideal, which works reliably for me. … Continue reading →

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Old, Ignored Ideas

Posted on July 19, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

Writing something worth reading has become difficult, lately. Due to the chaotic state of global politics, we’re awash with shocking, sickening, outrageous, alarming, disgusting, unprecedented things to read all the time. There are more polemics, accusations and denials than you … Continue reading →

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Impasse

Posted on June 24, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

Occasionally, you lose sight of your own future – the one you envision for yourself and strive toward. It’s very disorienting when that happens. That ideal life you’d like to lead becomes a diffuse and obscure cloud of confusion. When … Continue reading →

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On Not Doing the Work You Love

Posted on June 21, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

It might seem strange to be writing about underemployment, when the executive branch of the most militarised and powerful nation on Earth is, through its legions of official goons and flunkies, bureaucratically, permanently orphaning jailed small children and babies, just … Continue reading →

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How Many Creative Options Do You Need?

Posted on June 11, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

This is a hard lesson to learn for many artists, myself included. Here it is, though: adding more creative options only causes you to reach a point of diminishing returns quite rapidly. Beyond that point, having more creative options available … Continue reading →

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Dream or Dare

Posted on May 28, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

There is a game teenagers play called truth or dare. If you don’t know it, it requires you to publicly tell the truth about some usually private or intimate detail of your life, or else hold your secrets, but perform … Continue reading →

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