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upmarket utilitarian
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So two words. Rough to the touch. Miffed already. Fumes smoke my ears. Tears for misery me. Useful like make it sweat. Go have a shower. Spray splash watery shot gun squirt gun sounds. But harm less. And useful. Now , I’m clean, still a buck in my pocket blue jeans from thrift fit tight wear well squeaky dance shufffle feet like Sammy Davis mars.
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Down with doing WHAT now with a librarian? Wait. No. Focus. Be sensible. All the Spidey senses tingling. Ting-a-ling. Sing-song of six pence. Who carries rye in their pocket anyways? Ryan Gossling. Baby goose. Talk to me Goose. Danger Zone. Loggins. Kenny G. Gee willickers. Golly Gee Gosh. Zoinks! Scooby! Shaggy. Hot Stepper. Stepping off this crazy thing. Astro!
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Hot stepper. Click track generation. Zoinks is a happening downtown.
Colour ful language unique to the person.
I pulled the exercise from Pat Pattison’s book, who suggests:
each person has a unique take on most everything…..so when one exercises their uniqueness, in sense words, it is more clearly identified, and can be more clearly expressed, and when a lyric idea finally shows up, one is better able to grab it. And express it in sense language.
Show rather then tell. Exercise all senses.
Vision
Touch
Smell
Hear
Taste
And two others:
Organic(insides, like muscle tense, heart rate,etc)
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Outside kinesthetic( vertigo, full body spin, tumble, etc)
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I’m reading a fiction series by Robert Galbraith(the Cormorant Strike series)
I pulled the phrase upmarket utilitarian from there.
It was used to describe the inside design of a pub eating drinking establishment.
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I ran my hand across the rough top table and nicked a drip of bright red splinter. Sharp nervy painful, my head whirl and the air was quickly briefly blue as patron heads spun.
Done.
Dave! Thanks for the visit. Suggest an object word….your turn. I will write.
Bill
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Monetary Transgression
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Billable transgender. Gentrification. Multiplication table. Fable. Able. Mable. Aunt. Aunt Farm. Old cows. Pasture. Pastor. Money plate. Monetary Transgressions. Full circle.
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Monetary transgression.
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What is a firken word. Play. Drives me lazy. Changing world needs new words? Changing words needs a new world? Retreat. Transdirection. Move my money aggressively in the opposite direction. Makes multiply mega money rich direction. Yeah that’s my gression…so what? But. Smells bad. Like acid rain from a nuclear cloud. Paper with a greasy feel. Makes my nose wrinkle, and leaves my tongue a rinkling ugh. So be careful w that transaction gression. Keep your coinage dry. Don’t get dizzy, spiny, frizzy, tipsy turvy, swirly silly over stinky dirty paper promises of wealth and live forever. Keep some. Give the rest away. Be happy!
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Next word object:
babbling brook
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Show vs tell. How to do that? Ok. Use sense words, and, show who, what, when, where, why. That’s tuff! Hi. My name is Brook. Sorry. I’m babbling. What babbles? Rocks! Yeah yeah Brook has rocks in his…funny! Not. Rocks? How big a rock? The size of a ping pong. Ping pong? Is that a foreign language? No! It’s a babble language. Bonus. Ping is sound. Ok. Getting somewhere. Where? Well, I’m showing babble sound…..smooth rock the size of a ping pong….knock, knock, knock. Who is there? Babbling here.
Knock some rocks together
Put them in some rushing water
Close your eyes
Think sunny day
Reclining, resting, in the green grass smells
Rocks talk through water dreams.
So says babbling brook.
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Babble fish. Fishing for answers. $100,000 Pyramid. Midsection. C-section. Section 8, Row 3. 3 times a lady. Lionel Ritchie. Ritchie Rich. I'm broke AF. Broken Brook. Now I'm just babbling.
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A babbling brook wrote a book
About likable lakes to discover
A casual current is no deterrence
For ominous oceans of wonder
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Babble fish. Fishing for answers. $100,000 Pyramid. Midsection. C-section. Section 8, Row 3. 3 times a lady. Lionel Ritchie. Ritchie Rich. I'm broke AF. Broken Brook. Now I'm just babbling. LOL…good one Dave. Humurous. Hey. We both posted at same time! Cool.
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Nooooo.. japov at same time. Hello. Fun.
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Ok. Some interest in this exercise.
1. It’s meant to be prose form. Free association. A dig for sense base descriptive.
2. Once a day 10 min only.
3. The benefit is brain train, discover what is there, time goes on and retrieval is faster, more focused, more you.
4. Final take away is when you go for verse, verse, chorus, verse, bridge, etc…….you have a bag of resonate babble to draw on and use in your lyric storyline.
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Also. The exercise is designed for high achieving Berkeley school of music grads.
The 10 min time limit is too tight…..take hours, days, weeks to ponder the object word in all its who-what’s and sense shows.
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A babbling brook wrote a book
About likable lakes to discover
A casual current is no deterrence
For ominous oceans of wonder Just reread that again. All rivers to the sea…nice one.biblical. Bill
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Pinnacle Depths
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Baseball cards. Collectibles. Collecting trash. Trashing the system. System failure. Failure to launch. Failed to make lunch. Lunch time snacks. Scooby and the gang. Planking. Kerplunk.
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Ok. Some interest in this exercise.
1. It’s meant to be prose form. Free association. A dig for sense base descriptive.
2. Once a day 10 min only.
3. The benefit is brain train, discover what is there, time goes on and retrieval is faster, more focused, more you.
4. Final take away is when you go for verse, verse, chorus, verse, bridge, etc…….you have a bag of resonate babble to draw on and use in your lyric storyline. Ten minutes only, let the pen just run No rules, no reason, no need to be done Chasing a feeling, a flicker, a thread Digging for something that’s already said Loose thoughts drifting, no need to explain Words fall like rhythm, like soft summer rain Day after day, something starts to appear A voice getting closer, a signal more clear Fragments of meaning, scattered and true Turning to something that sounds more like you And when it’s time for a verse or a line You’ve got a pocket full of gold you can mine Guys, feel free to use anything you like....
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Pinnacle Depths
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Baseball cards. Collectibles. Collecting trash. Trashing the system. System failure. Failure to launch. Failed to make lunch. Lunch time snacks. Scooby and the gang. Planking. Kerplunk.
Peace,
Dave That sparkles Dave,lol. Give me a day Bill
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Ok. Some interest in this exercise.
1. It’s meant to be prose form. Free association. A dig for sense base descriptive.
2. Once a day 10 min only.
3. The benefit is brain train, discover what is there, time goes on and retrieval is faster, more focused, more you.
4. Final take away is when you go for verse, verse, chorus, verse, bridge, etc…….you have a bag of resonate babble to draw on and use in your lyric storyline. Ten minutes only, let the pen just run No rules, no reason, no need to be done Chasing a feeling, a flicker, a thread Digging for something that’s already said Loose thoughts drifting, no need to explain Words fall like rhythm, like soft summer rain Day after day, something starts to appear A voice getting closer, a signal more clear Fragments of meaning, scattered and true Turning to something that sounds more like you And when it’s time for a verse or a line You’ve got a pocket full of gold you can mine Guys, feel free to use anything you like.... Holy dang dude….that is you! Write the rules in a lyric….like the object of the object…cool! Bill
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Pinnacle Depths
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I’ve thought about.googled the terms. Is that cheating? But I feel stretched for time. Physically stretch as well if I’m truthful. Like a measuring tape. Skinny. It have to be. Skinny. This stretch from the pinnacle of pinnacles to the recessive of depts, freezing finger tips to blazing hot toes. A stretch of mind to a ribbon of time, winding whirling wind reaching heaven from hell, best direction. Slide the string ride to hell, worst direction. Get me off this roller coaster. My imagination winds away from pillar to post. Stop. Roll it up. Roll it in like a tap measure zip. Put it away for another day.
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Babble fish. Fishing for answers. $100,000 Pyramid. Midsection. C-section. Section 8, Row 3. 3 times a lady. Lionel Ritchie. Ritchie Rich. I'm broke AF. Broken Brook. Now I'm just babbling. omg.. that was too funny!!
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I need easier words.. hahahha
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ok.
show not tell. use sense words. can be 5 words or 500. can be 5 seconds or 500 seconds (write time)
BOAT
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I missed the boat, the boat is sinking, titanic, gilligans island, boats have oars, pushing ahead, water hitting your face, it's rocky, there's waves, you tip over and cling to the bottom of the boat, drifting, hit the shore , the boat drifts away
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explosive ambling, boom boom steps, careful of that hole, basement slipstream, whirlaway sourdough, yeast beast, rise up Fleischman,
If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop
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Haze gray and under way, 50,000 tons of Hell on high tide, 2000lb 16" diameter/50 caliber Mark 7 explosive projectile, Super Sexy kinetic persuasion, 24 mile range of overcompensating love, they'll never see it coming, HeavyMetal Massacre, OooohRaaah!
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I missed the boat, the boat is sinking, titanic, gilligans island, boats have oars, pushing ahead, water hitting your face, it's rocky, there's waves, you tip over and cling to the bottom of the boat, drifting, hit the shore , the boat drifts away That is an enjoyable stream of word pictures!
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explosive ambling, boom boom steps, careful of that hole, basement slipstream, whirlaway sourdough, yeast beast, rise up Fleischman, Amusing and interesting pictures. Yeah!
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Haze gray and under way, 50,000 tons of Hell on high tide, 2000lb 16" diameter/50 caliber Mark 7 explosive projectile, Super Sexy kinetic persuasion, 24 mile range of overcompensating love, they'll never see it coming, HeavyMetal Massacre, OooohRaaah! Screaming heavy metal pictorial. wow!
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At first I thought I hated this object writing stuff. But it kind of grows on you.
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Sprouting like some alien fenceposts, scattering bursts of the intensely new, radically raw row upon row
If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop
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Bulldog snot, splosh, stinky dinky useless beast, clean my glasses, wash my face, neutered fat farting alien nuisance, missing shoe, barks at mirrors, too mean to cut loose, too ugly to eat, dumb wrinkle wiggle loves me...
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Yes. I was thinking that way as well. It’s a public forum, but the free form can be get personal Trolls love that.
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Whoops! I said GO….but I forgot to give the object. Jesus I’m a silly arse. Ok. New object word is
Artifacts
boogie-woogie
All folks welcome. Including trolls!
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What is a boogie ? What is a woogie? Sound like fuzzy wussy friendly. Turn the amp to clean and funky. Dance the night away.
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"Go" Been there, broken sky, smoke, sand, darkness, merited murder, dry unblinking eyes, all dead, desert of ghosts, buried youth, false valour, abandon discretion, forfeit naivety, embrace atrocity, fear no more...
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