{"id":19,"date":"2024-01-03T22:35:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T22:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:57:26","slug":"273-im-going-to-tell-my-children-that-this-is-elasticas-second-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/03\/273-im-going-to-tell-my-children-that-this-is-elasticas-second-album\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201c273: I&#8217;m going to tell my children that this is Elastica&#8217;s second album\u201d &#8211; Kieron Gillan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cBasically, I&#8217;ve started making music for the first time since I was 21. Not regularly, but enough that I bought a tiny mid-keyboard to make it a bit easier. There&#8217;s about 6 or so tracks that were finished enough to lob at various friends for their amusement. And I do mean amusement \u2013 they&#8217;re terrible, but the other thing about art this year is me thinking about the power of just doing art. I still mean to write about AI stuff eventually, but part of the core is that \u2013 creating art is just good for you. Its quality really doesn&#8217;t matter. What matters is the process of creation, and that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s good for our spirits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, the experience has also reminded me how I am not wired to be a real musician. I get earworms, so any time I am working on a song, it will inevitably get stuck in my head. There is literally nothing worse that a song that is genuinely awful which is also your song going around and around and around your head at 3am\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buttondown.email\/KieronGillen\/archive\/273-im-going-to-tell-my-children-that-this-is\/\">https:\/\/buttondown.email\/KieronGillen\/archive\/273-im-going-to-tell-my-children-that-this-is\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBasically, I&#8217;ve started making music for the first time since I was 21. Not regularly, but enough that I bought a tiny mid-keyboard to make it a bit easier. There&#8217;s about 6 or so tracks that were finished enough to lob at various friends for their amusement. And I do mean amusement \u2013 they&#8217;re terrible,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}