Beatink baby, beatnik.
I really, really hate being poor. It's not even so much about not having money but my inability to buy stuff. (I know that sounded kind of stupid.) I don't mind being poor. I'm actually rather used to it and probably wouldn't know how to function in a life with paid bills and food to boot. I'd mind being poor even less if I were able to be a poor artist. (I can still dream.) Being poor because you spend your days doing what you love is a great reason to be poor. At least I think so. It's been my life's ambition for as long as I can remember. Not the being poor part but the spending my life doing what I enjoy. (Creating art-stuff.) Being poor is something I rarely even think about. I don't care much for wandering stores. I don't browse or window shop because I know I'll never be able to afford to actually buy anything, so what's the use? But I do hate it when I can't support another artist because I don't have money. I hate it when I simply don't have the ability to financially support and encourage someone else. When I can help someone.
I just spoke to a jazz musician who stopped in to ask if I wanted to purchase one of his CDs. They were only ten dollars each and still I couldn't afford even one. Heck. My main financial concern right now is having heat by the end of the week.There simply ain't anything in my pockets, let alone enough to share. This part of being poor sucks. (Toothaches ain't no joy either.) The guy didn't have a web site for me to pass along so I can't even "token-help"there. Gripes.
Maybe one day I'll be able to support other artists and creators. Maybe one day I'll be able to live a life doing nothing but drinking coffee and creating art. I don't even care of no one ever sees my work so long as I'm able to create it. (Is that arrogant? selfish? Stupid? Or bohemian of me?)
I'm in a pretty good mood(ish). Sure hope the rest of my day don't screw it all up.
Bohemian: of French origin, to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalised and impoverished artists, writers, musicians, and actors, associated with unorthodox or antiestablishment political or social viewpoints, which were often expressed through free love, frugality, and/or voluntary poverty.
Beatnik: a part of a sociocultural movement in the 1950s and early 1960s that subscribed to an anti-materialistic lifestyle in the wake of World War II.
I am soooo Shaggy-Doo.
I just spoke to a jazz musician who stopped in to ask if I wanted to purchase one of his CDs. They were only ten dollars each and still I couldn't afford even one. Heck. My main financial concern right now is having heat by the end of the week.There simply ain't anything in my pockets, let alone enough to share. This part of being poor sucks. (Toothaches ain't no joy either.) The guy didn't have a web site for me to pass along so I can't even "token-help"there. Gripes.
Maybe one day I'll be able to support other artists and creators. Maybe one day I'll be able to live a life doing nothing but drinking coffee and creating art. I don't even care of no one ever sees my work so long as I'm able to create it. (Is that arrogant? selfish? Stupid? Or bohemian of me?)
I'm in a pretty good mood(ish). Sure hope the rest of my day don't screw it all up.
Bohemian: of French origin, to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalised and impoverished artists, writers, musicians, and actors, associated with unorthodox or antiestablishment political or social viewpoints, which were often expressed through free love, frugality, and/or voluntary poverty.
Beatnik: a part of a sociocultural movement in the 1950s and early 1960s that subscribed to an anti-materialistic lifestyle in the wake of World War II.
I am soooo Shaggy-Doo.
posted by Mark A Lester at
4:48 PM
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