From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #294 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Saturday, October 14 2000 Volume 02 : Number 294 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] NYC gig & Mint web site ["Michaela O'Brien" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:46:58 -0400 From: "Michaela O'Brien" Subject: [RS] NYC gig & Mint web site Hi all, Sorry but that NYC gig was _not_ supposed to be posted. It's some kind of private event. Maybe there will be a bona fide open-to-y'all NYC gig to be announced. All I get are the confirmed ones, so sit tight for the next round. In the meantime, the Mint Suppperclub in LA has a simple site: http://www.lama.com/themint/home.html Take care, Michaela ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:25:16 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] The creative process Over on Dar-list, someone who will soon interview Dar for her college paper, asked us for help in regards to questions to ask Dar. My questions were quite generic and applicable to basically any creative artist (this being Richard list, Richard). There are several people on this list who are producers of creative works of one sort or another & there are others who are in the 4th estate. So I think you'd be interested from a personal perspective as well. I am curious about what youse (yes, I am a native New Yorker) think. My question(s) would be about the creative process. I'm sure that he, like many creative people, gets asked all the time "Where do you get your ideas?". That's NOT the question I would ask. I'd ask instead: "How do you make a song out of those ideas? " We all get ideas for a song or book or play, etc.; the difference is that the "creative people" act on those ideas. That's the hard part but I think that's the essence of creativity. I'd like to know whether he 's ever had the fear that someone has done a song or other work based on that idea better than he feels he could hope to accomplish. I'm sure she has but I'd be very interested in how she would respond. I'd also ask him whether he's ever afraid of copying herself. Norman ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #294 ***********************************