nEgAtIvE aRt

I don't get it...I don't understand why good creative work has to stem from negative things. It seems as though I am only inspired to write poems when I'm distraught over something or pissed off. It's pretty depressing! I was watching an interview with Fiona Apple from last year and when asked why the new album (which is still not released by the way) is more up than her previous ones she remarked that when it's your job and you can only be productive when something negative is happening, that's pretty depressing. I suppose she tried to focus more on the happier things for this album, Extradordinary Things. I've only heard one song from it and it's really good. I can't believe Sony is still sitting on the album. It's been finished for over a year now, supposedly. You can check out the retaliated fans at www.fionaapple.org There is a link to the interview I watched and other stuff relating to getting the album released, such as mass emails to Sony, etc.

Back to the good poetry coming from negative shit... Often times, I really like what I have written and it becomes detached from the reason I wrote it. At the time of writing it allows me to express what I was feeling, which can be very hard sometimes. However, later it represents that time but I also can look at it singularly as a creative work... and that is how I normally view things. Often time, I can not connect to the feelings I had when I wrote it, I look at it as someone looking at a painting. Only seeing what is before me, and further interpreting it differently each time I read it.