Blogging for Art

I just wanted to thank everyone for hanging out and reading this blog, because this has been a big experiment for me. I'm thankful for everyone that has taken the time to actually consider a word I've written, and I'm sorry for all the typos, run-on sentences, etc., but more than that, I'm sorry if I bored you, or didn't live up to the time you took to see if I had something to say. I've tried to stay on topic, thinking of things that my peer group and those younger than me might like, but I'm not always sure I've done a good job. The blog is an attempt for me to just kind of write everyday, and this isn't as easy as it sounds if you're not working on a novel or a story, but every writer has to do it. It has been a treat and a pleasure to imagine an audience, because I've been writing in obscurity for so long, I forgot that such a thing as an audience could exist, but I'm sure this was my fault. It is fun to blame society, but I'll take the blame on this one. I didn't want an audience for the longest time but I see that was its own kind of audience, and I've changed my beliefs. I'd like to write more about movies, politics, art, sports, and astrology, but my own fiction writing has taken over. It is nothing more than a thinly veiled autobiography, rearranged like a composer would a piece of music, so memories become composites of other memories, and the weight of a piece is how well I'm able to re-imagine my life, keeping the details intact. I did a lot of 'bags' not too long ago, and the thing I learned from Seaside Johnny, aside from how to construct supermarket bags like a canvas, was that the key to art was to do it everyday, or to get swept up into it like a storm. This has to be done if you're going to do anything meaningful, otherwise it truly is a hobby, and you are what John Lennon called, "A Day Tripper." This blog is my sketchpad, but I hope to do a masterpiece from time to time, or to at least provoke my creativity as well as yours.