This song by Jack Johnson is pretty sweet. It's very relaxing, but talks about issues that pertain to our daily lives. I heard it on my ipod randomly and thought I should share it because it's how I feel sometimes. I wonder why we can't be happy in our own way. I think each of us wants something from those around us and we want to enforce our will on others' so much that we lose what would make us happy. The best philosopher that actually practices what he preaches is Winnie the Pooh, like what the book The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff essentially promotes. I am sad.
It’s such a shock to find out that this author is not producing books anymore.
If not for himself, he should keep writing for those aspiring writers that look up to him. Or has the amount of pain and frustration he has endured with publishers destroyed his belief in himself? I think belief is a very strong factor in a lot of decisions people make. Or else, why would an international best selling author quit the book-writing industry? Maybe he is write, though. Maybe America's cultural capital and literary history is being cut down like the rain forests in South America. Not as many people read books today as before when there wasn't a computer or TV. There are still creative writers, but maybe Hoff considers them as hiding behind weak writing to survive and not producing their better, original works.
2 comments:
Here's an interesting perspective: If you write a novel and sell 10,000 copies, you end up on the New York Times bestseller list.
If you make a video game and sell 10,000 copies, you get fired for making a game that bombed so horribly If you sell a 100,000 copies you still flopped.People don't read like they used to-- at least not books.
Of course, I don't think TV and video games are necessarily any less legitimate works of art than a novel, but that's a whole other issue.
Hmm, I agree. The publishing ndustry is a lot more corporate now. It's harder to get a real creative work published if the ideas in the manuscript aren't well-known or acceptable. I think in time it will change though. A lot of great writers had works published that they failed to get published during their times. Of course, then they didn't see their works become successful while living.
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