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Nailed by Stephen Colbert...in my own living room!!
Stephen Colbert had David Byrne on Monday night. I went to bed early, so I didn't see it until Tuesday 8pm. It was a great interview, and in it they touched upon something I have pondered many times before, but don't discuss very often.
Artists are often afraid of being "normal/average" people.
I have to wonder how much my fear of normalcy influences the way I live my life. Do I do things intentionally so as not to seem too normal? Do I lean into my own mental illness because I take some small measure of comfort in being "crazy"? I honestly don't know, but I'll be keeping an eye on it.
A while back, I don't know exactly when, I posted that having kids was far too normal a thing to do. I was trying to make myself feel better about the fact that I will never be a mother, but ended up offending some of you who were parents out there. I do think the whole getting-married-procreation thing is on the normal side, but that doesn't really make it average. After all, there are WAY too many styles of parenting, some are awesome and some range from annoying to abysmal depending on the day. But I'm not here today to talk about parenting.
Tell me, artists, do you fear being thought of, or presenting yourself as, normal?
How does that impact the way you life your life.
Didn't see the interview? Here it is:
"The last thing I want to do is be like everyone else, but then you realize maybe it's not so bad..."
--David Byrne
PS David Byrne also "produced" the Everybody Hates Ned Flanders song. Woot!!
Artists are often afraid of being "normal/average" people.
I have to wonder how much my fear of normalcy influences the way I live my life. Do I do things intentionally so as not to seem too normal? Do I lean into my own mental illness because I take some small measure of comfort in being "crazy"? I honestly don't know, but I'll be keeping an eye on it.
A while back, I don't know exactly when, I posted that having kids was far too normal a thing to do. I was trying to make myself feel better about the fact that I will never be a mother, but ended up offending some of you who were parents out there. I do think the whole getting-married-procreation thing is on the normal side, but that doesn't really make it average. After all, there are WAY too many styles of parenting, some are awesome and some range from annoying to abysmal depending on the day. But I'm not here today to talk about parenting.
Tell me, artists, do you fear being thought of, or presenting yourself as, normal?
How does that impact the way you life your life.
Didn't see the interview? Here it is:
"The last thing I want to do is be like everyone else, but then you realize maybe it's not so bad..."
--David Byrne
PS David Byrne also "produced" the Everybody Hates Ned Flanders song. Woot!!
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There's a wonderful line in one of Utah Phillips' stories where he's talking about his daughter. She was a teenager at the time, and he was annoying her, as parents can only do. And she told him, "Dad, why can't you be normal?" A friend who was with them called her on that and said, "Your dad is normal. What he isn't is average."
For what's it worth.
(And I can't see the interview until I can get Flash updated. Come on, tech support!)
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