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Earning a crust, or biting the dust [shortform essay]

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Earning A Crust Or Biting The Dust

I have many ideas about this, over a decade on from cutting my teeth; consistently, the much-debated regimen of the individual.

The regimen of anybody, to me, tries to earn a crust, or neglects their muse - and bites the dust.

It's totally provoked by how, personally, "21st Century Schizoid" [King Crimson] I feel on a given day.

Not only is dust related to street drugs, built from resins and opioids, "ashes to ashes", as David Bowie croons,
creates the "do or die" directive of the modern musician...little do we know how many ashes affected, or plain cigarette ash, their climes have been. 

Granted, life is more than doom mongering the drug brigade; others would attest, simply, that the
rules of touring, riding with a rider or reduced to a concert a year, has speech performing for it, before the plan sizes itself.

"Backtrack The Brain" by Szely [2007] negates much of my issues with dissociating, incubating; "the man controller, communicate"
and such, basically, because, communicating musically is not like Donald Trump: carriage of a thought separates impressions of
old farts, or brain farts, in Trump's case...saying whatever thought comes into his head.

It must be difficult to see music, good old music, 'ardkore or candyfloss bossed, be negated for parliamentary lamentation.

Indeed there is a lot to be communicated by not just a man - see Arvo Part and "Lamentate CD", or a whole orchestra, to me unable of controlling every penned note on a musical score. 

Crusts of crochets; quavering fans - the illustrative nature of classical music, and classical music, especially, lives on the path of the annotated spreadsheet, turn musical score. Some might gab and gander at the need for 'writing fings down' on the crash of deaf ears, the existence of Ludwig Van Beethoven decades ago.

But to what accord? 

It cannot just be earning a crust? 

For me, music never existed before it diarised itself. 

The Big Bang, in other words. 

In other big bangs, documentaries about the mentally unstable father of Mark Fell, crashing a brick over his boy's
head when he was asleep; in lieu of the miner's strike; and we remember, that strike was diarised fictionally by decent flicks like Billy Elliot (2002) with Judy Garland playing Billy's ballet coach, amidst the breathing baritone of his time-strapped Dad.

Ultimately, size > science > support? We could theorise for hours about this subject; to non-writers it's all we do; to me, the final shorthand point is that any energetic field of study, or composition, replenishes with a nap or more a day.

Earn a crust...or another one bites the dust. 
"Yeeeeeeaaaahhhh" ~ Roland Rat.

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