I’ve got hooked on watching The Dudesons on Saturday nights. Late Saturday they run 4 – 6 episodes back to back. At first I thought it was too crazy to watch. It kind of grows on you if you don’t turn the channel. Now I think of them as “those crazy Vikings” and I usually watch after midnight every Saturday.

I’d been wondering about the theme song on the show. I spent some time this morning tracking it down. It’s called Once Upon a Time by Damn Seagulls. Here are the lyrics:

That night I’ve been in every single street in this town
And after that I took another round
I was trying to get wasted in this abandoned station
I thought I could trick myself away
I was wrong and I acted like a stupid kid
And I know I haven’t changed
I try to be brave but I wasn’t okay
I wasn’t okay, not at all
I kept it all inside, and began to full

Yeah, once upon a time
Yeah, there was a boy who wanted to fly
Yeah, one day he died trying
Yeah, he said it was worth a try

Good morning everybody
Oh how much I need to do
I got to save the world and you know the rules
I finally come back home

Good morning everybody
Oh how much I need to do
I got to save the world and you know the rules
I finally come back home

It’s getting harder all the time
To get up in the morning
You know I’m just trying to survive
I got to take over my mountain and build up new bases
Or I’m gonna get stuck in the mud
I gotta get out, it’s so empty here without you
And I’m scared that you’re not coming back
My friends, I need you now so I wouldn’t feel so lonely
Lord, please give me something else to think about

Yeah, once upon a time
Yeah, there was a boy who wanted to fly
Yeah, one day he died trying
Yeah, he said it was worth a try

Good morning everybody
Oh how much I need to do
I got to save the world and you know the rules
I finally come back home

Good morning everybody
Oh how much I need to do
I got to save the world and you know the rules
I finally come back home

Oh yeah! Woo-oo! Hey!

Yeah, once upon a time
Yeah, there was a boy who wanted to fly
Yeah, one day he died trying
Yeah, he said it was worth a try

Good morning everybody
Oh how much I need to do
I got to save the world and you know the rules
I finally come back home

Good morning everybody
Oh how much I need to do
I got to save the world and you know the rules
I finally come back home

Sung by Irene Cara for the movie, Fame. This song pops into my head different times when I’m not really thinking about anything.

Sometimes I wonder
Where I’ve been
Who I am, do I fit in?
Make-believing is hard alone
Out here, on my own

We’re always proving
Who we are
Always reaching
For that rising star
To guide me far
And shine me home
Out here on my own

When I’m down and feeling blue
I close my eyes so I can be with you
Oh, baby, be strong for me
Baby, belong to me
Help me through
Help me need you

Until the morning sun appears
Making light of all my fears
I dry the tears I’ve never shown
out here on my own

But when I’m down and feeling blue
I close my eyes so I can be with you
Oh, baby, be strong for me
Baby, belong to me
Help me through
Help me need you

Sometimes I wonder
Where I’ve been
Who I am, do I fit in?
I may not win
But I can’t be thrown
Out here on my own
On my own

See it on YouTube.

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. Eudora Welty

Quote found on Book Mania.

“Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.” – E.L. Konigsburg

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. – Billy Joel

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. – Billy Joel

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. – Ray Bradbury

Creativity is about constraints. Weirdly, many people seem to see creativity as the opposite, as being about expansion. We must think outside the box. We must generate ideas. The problem of how to be creative is the problem of thinking up things. But this is wrong. Or in any case, the opposite is just as correct. Creativity is all about thinking inside the right box. There is an infinite amount of possible ideas. The problem is not how to come up with ideas, but how to remove the ideas that are no good. The problem is not how to think outside the box, but where on the infinite plain of thought to put it. Creative work is about finding ever narrower constraints, until you are left with only one idea that fits the bill. That’s the right one.

via Themes, Creativity, and Constraints « Tape Noise Diary.

Write it down, when I have perished:
Here is everything I’ve cherished;
That these walls should glow with beauty
Spurred my lagging soul to duty;
That there should be gladness here
Kept me toiling, year by year…
Every thought and every act
Were to keep this home intact.

-Edgar A. Guest