I tell you what really does it: Nick Cave’s The Lyre of Orpheus on vinyl transmitting to wireless headphones as I watch the stars falling by the rising yellow moon. Hot damn! Screw Florida.
One of the side effects of cover is a complete lack of creative energy, its what hurts me the most. I can take loss of sense and taste, I can even take nausea and exhaustion, but lack of creative energy really sucks! I hope you regain yours asap. You’ll get there!
I had not put much thought into that as a symptom. It helps to understand that. Do you have your taste and smell yet? My girlfriend is still struggling with it.
It took about ten weeks before I got my taste and smell back, that was about three weeks ago. Food tastes good! I’m left with a form of post-viral exhaustion with brain fog, but sometimes I feel absolutely normal, usually mornings for three hours or so. I hope your girlfriend recovers quickly, and yourself, of course.
Hang in there. My theory: we’re all mired psychologically in constant crisis mode, on high alert for threats on micro and macro levels. And, more than usual, looking after threats to food/shelter/life/livelihood (hierarchy of needs). Thus less mental energy for creativity. Sort of like historical periods where “higher” arts (philosophy, visual/musical art, poetry, etc) stagnated due to other concerns. I kick myself for not doing more with this time, too. But I’m cultivating patience that the mojo will come back. Keep listening to good music, guaranteed it will help and heal. KUVO (our local jazz station, they stream too) is a lifesaver at our house. P.S. I made it through 4 years of college in the early 90s with my Apple IIc, boy I loved that machine. It was easy to move, looked cool, and was totally reliable. The only problem: I had to take my documents to the campus library on disk, for the one and only compatible printer, after mine died. The printer, hooked up to a IIe I think, lived in a dark corner of the basement near the foreign language stacks. Actually, it was a pretty cool spot I never would have found otherwise. Anyway. What were we talking about again? *wink*
Good choice of music. Sometimes when I lack creativity for a project I switch from my favorite music, and I play Native American flute and drum music or Walter Carlos (now Wendy, but the LP has Walter on it) Sonic Seasoning 4 LP set. He or She does the 4 seasons of the year all on the Moog. I listen wearing headphones. Even my best stereo gear does not have the great imaging as a good pair of headphones.
When you least expect it the well will be over flowing.
Enjoy the sky. Things like you see can never be seen in FL, even at the beach during turtle season.
I guess her work isn’t on Spotify. I now live in a world of extremes: LPs and Spotify, but the CDs are in storage.
I have a couple of Lakota flutes. Back in the day, I played one of them as I manned a store under liquidation. A police officer stopped in to make sure the flute wasn’t something else. I think he was disappointed—possibly in the playing.
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Good choices: Earl Hines, Hampton Sides, MacBook Air. Good taste will help get you through the dry patches between creative stretches.
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I tell you what really does it: Nick Cave’s The Lyre of Orpheus on vinyl transmitting to wireless headphones as I watch the stars falling by the rising yellow moon. Hot damn! Screw Florida.
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Oh God yes.
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One of the side effects of cover is a complete lack of creative energy, its what hurts me the most. I can take loss of sense and taste, I can even take nausea and exhaustion, but lack of creative energy really sucks! I hope you regain yours asap. You’ll get there!
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I had not put much thought into that as a symptom. It helps to understand that. Do you have your taste and smell yet? My girlfriend is still struggling with it.
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It took about ten weeks before I got my taste and smell back, that was about three weeks ago. Food tastes good! I’m left with a form of post-viral exhaustion with brain fog, but sometimes I feel absolutely normal, usually mornings for three hours or so. I hope your girlfriend recovers quickly, and yourself, of course.
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“Fog”—yes. That’s the word.
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Covid, not cover!
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Hang in there. My theory: we’re all mired psychologically in constant crisis mode, on high alert for threats on micro and macro levels. And, more than usual, looking after threats to food/shelter/life/livelihood (hierarchy of needs). Thus less mental energy for creativity. Sort of like historical periods where “higher” arts (philosophy, visual/musical art, poetry, etc) stagnated due to other concerns. I kick myself for not doing more with this time, too. But I’m cultivating patience that the mojo will come back. Keep listening to good music, guaranteed it will help and heal. KUVO (our local jazz station, they stream too) is a lifesaver at our house. P.S. I made it through 4 years of college in the early 90s with my Apple IIc, boy I loved that machine. It was easy to move, looked cool, and was totally reliable. The only problem: I had to take my documents to the campus library on disk, for the one and only compatible printer, after mine died. The printer, hooked up to a IIe I think, lived in a dark corner of the basement near the foreign language stacks. Actually, it was a pretty cool spot I never would have found otherwise. Anyway. What were we talking about again? *wink*
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I remember my old forty-pound printer slowly printing out words and screeching like a barn owl.
Your theory makes sense to me. The mind hectically darts from worry to worry. I’m not much for meditation, but I wonder if that would help.
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Good choice of music. Sometimes when I lack creativity for a project I switch from my favorite music, and I play Native American flute and drum music or Walter Carlos (now Wendy, but the LP has Walter on it) Sonic Seasoning 4 LP set. He or She does the 4 seasons of the year all on the Moog. I listen wearing headphones. Even my best stereo gear does not have the great imaging as a good pair of headphones.
When you least expect it the well will be over flowing.
Enjoy the sky. Things like you see can never be seen in FL, even at the beach during turtle season.
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I guess her work isn’t on Spotify. I now live in a world of extremes: LPs and Spotify, but the CDs are in storage.
I have a couple of Lakota flutes. Back in the day, I played one of them as I manned a store under liquidation. A police officer stopped in to make sure the flute wasn’t something else. I think he was disappointed—possibly in the playing.
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Okay, I’ll bite. What did the copy think the flute was?
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I guess it would help to see it. The kind of pipe you would see at a Grateful Dead concert.
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That should be “cop.”
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There sure are a lot of comments today!
I’ll just suggest that you try the Myst games, if you haven’t yet.
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Oh yeah. I remember those. It’s either that or Zork.
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