Songs for the Struggling Artist
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The slide of a Hogarth etching in the Power Point presentation made me think about how incredibly tedious it must have been to do all that cross-hatching in the background. I imagine that it would have been fun to draw all those laughing faces but then – to do all those straight lines behind them? Tedium. Absolute monotony.
This made me think about the point where I gave up on working through Lynda Barry’s Making Comics book.
To keep reading The Tedium Scale visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 452
Song: Everything Is Boring
Image of The Laughing Audience by William Hogarth is from the 1730s
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
On the Gen X subreddit, someone wrote a post titled “Anyone else hate podcasts?” and asked if anyone else felt like they were the wrong generation for podcasts. The OP (on Reddit, the person who posts is called OP for Original Poster) says they can’t stand all the chatting by Millennials on podcasts, so they hate podcasts. They received a lot of support for this post. It has over four thousand upvotes and the comments are full of my generational peers piling on about how much they hate podcasts and how dumb they are and how full of annoying younger people they are.
To keep reading Gen X Podcasts visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 451
Song: Soft Serve
Image of my podcast stats for The Dragoning from a few years ago.
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
Recently, it occurred to me that part of the reason that I remain in the arts, despite very little obvious success is that I am really just a stubborn cuss. I will not give up, no matter how much it would make sense to. I will not yield. I will not surrender. It’s not that I won’t face reality; I am well aware of how bootless this seems, how steep the odds are. I just refuse to give up. I hear all the stories about the old timers plugging away and, in my youth, I remember laughing at them, thinking, “Wow, they just can’t get a clue, huh?” And now that I am an old timer, I know I have a lot of clues – and I am just choosing to ignore them. Stubborn-ness is maybe necessary in this field.
To keep reading An Obdurate Donkey visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 450
Song: Donkey
Image by Dawn Tree via Unsplash
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
A doctor I heard on a podcast said he prescribes all his patients to smile twenty times a day. It sounded very convincing on the podcast and I thought, I can do that! Then I hesitated. For women, it can be a little loaded to be told to smile more. I don’t LOVE this for that reason but I do understand the benefits and the rationale. Smiling is good for you! And then I thought about how dramatically my relationship with smiling has changed over the years. As a girl, and then as a young woman, I smiled ALL THE TIME.
To keep reading Twenty Smiles a Day visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 449
Song: Sara Smile
Image by Kacey Anisa Stamats of Emily Rainbow Davis and Emily Hartford in Messenger Theatre Company's As We Like It
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
I have this idea that I don’t cry in the theatre. Movies, yes, all the time. TV, yep. But I think I don’t really cry at plays. It’s not true, though. It just doesn’t happen very often. And pretty much every time it does, it’s such a remarkable piece of theatre that I feel like I have to write about it. It happened at Indecent. And at One Night Only. I have noticed that I only write about a show when it has either really made me mad or made me cry.
I don’t know what I want to tell you about John Proctor Is the Villain aside from how hard it made me cry and how it got me when I was least expecting it.
I don’t get to see a lot of explicitly feminist shows on Broadway (that’s because generally there aren’t any) so I felt it was absolutely my responsibility to go see this show.
To keep reading John Proctor Is the Villain visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 448
Song: Green Light
Image by Cornellrocky via Wikicommons
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis