Feature: Catching Up With The “Chocolate Rain” Guy
A surprising source of motivation and inspiration from Tay Zonday.
Put your home studio by your kitchen. When you’re taking out the garbage and say “wow I have these eight notes in my head,” you can drop the garbage in the living room and lose yourself for ten hours in one flawless impulse. If you have to go up the steps and into a dedicated “music room,” you will tell yourself “I’ll record those notes after I take out the garbage.” But then you will get back and see that the recycling also needs to be taken out. Then you will see that your car tabs still need to be paid. Then you will see that it’s March and you never mailed the Christmas thank-you-card for that gift that you got.
Those notes in your head might have been a Grammy or might have touched the lives of millions. They will die because you failed them. You failed to prepare your life for the creative emergency. You put smoke detectors in your house but you didn’t put that pen and paper by your bed. You weren’t prepared to sing at 3AM and wake the neighbors if you had to. You weren’t prepared to fuck the world and fuck the haters and block the interstate because you had a music emergency. You had a silence emergency. You had a prophecy and maybe you needed to steamroll some flower beds. Maybe you needed to step on some toes and push some bodies out of the way.
But you wussed out. You said “maybe I can do both!” “Maybe I can make music and keep the neighbors happy! Maybe I can make music and not forget to pay the doctor bill for five months! Maybe I’ll only make noise certain hours of the day! Maybe I’ll only sing inside my sound booth! Maybe I’ll do that once I’m in that part of the apartment. Maybe I’ll never do it.”
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