Feb 15 Thursday

 Write a cover for a Ross Gay essay five crucial elements. What are the things that are in the essay. A specific cultural referent. Essay reference. Long sentences. 


Specific cultural reference

Long sentence

Doing something and gets distracted by something else. 

Ends where it starts. 

TRY to write an essayette in the Ross Gay style using 5 markers of that style. Idea is to try on someone else’s style. 

37. “To Spread the Sweetness of Love” Clever Thieves

It’s not a bd ear worm to have, Stevie Wonder’s “Com Back as a Flower,” from his somewhat overlooked lbutm. THE SECRET LIFE OF plants 91979), an experimental eco-treatise, tinkling. Casio sound effects, birdsong, brooks babbling, all manner of delightful sonic theatrics. This album comes after the string of records in the early seventies that I will go on record as saying is among the finest stretches of artistic production in history, even though anytime someone says something stupidly categorical like that I alwa=ys think what an asshol and stop listening. MUSIC OF MY MIND, TALKING BOOK, FULFILLINGNESS FIRST FINALE, INNER VISSION AN AND songs in the key of life.  You know songs from these records even if you don’t know you know songs from this’d records.



COVER: It’sw not a bad ritual to have, songs from Coco, especially since the songs are so much of a cultural heritage of rituals, music and family. Although it is a Disney movie, its message is clear, as it takes you through the ups and downs of inherited family stories and how they change the life of the children and culture around them. You may not know the story but you will recognize some of the messages: don’t follow your dream, a mother says, it will only result in pain and hurt. Listen to me I know best what is good for you. Then watching that child Coco get progressively more miserable as he tries to follow the best in his heart. 

The story of Joe Cocker’s N’oubliez Jamari’s,, His Official Video shows him with the love of his life. The message imparted in the story. Even though he suffered through addictions and health issues, the song’s message that continuously replays in my ears is: “follow your own beat, your own music, your job is to reject tradition and create your own, in so doing you will find your own love.”

So the dream continues for each of us, as the drummer’s beat pushes us forward in a way that might not have been there before, to find your own song and your own love and your own reason for being.

So how can the universality of Love, and following your desitiny find an appealing place in Disney’s and Rock and Roll?         

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