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[OmitMyself]

Thanks so much MrP, and that's exciting to hear.

I also think there's some good discussion going on in this thread, keep it up folks

[MrP]

http://www.hillingdo...rg.uk/index.php

The first part is up now, scroll down a little

(lyrics are to come)

[Iva]

Wonderful!

Makes me proud to be a writer. And I think I'll take some of John's advice.

[bloodcalibystadium]

wow the teaser you put up Iva blew me away, ive been keeping a journal for the past couple months and johns words abo ut writing really hit home for me!

[Iva]

Thank Chris, not me.

[Songofthunder]

Thanks so much Chris! As a fan and as someone who went through some really hard times recently, I appreciate John's honesty on this topic. My feelings towards John as an artist aside, this was an excellent read.

This is such an acute observation. "When you're thinking things, your thoughts have the ability to go at this incredibly fast pace, much faster than we speak or can write, so sometimes the process of writing is also a process of slowing down the thought stream to where you're thinking at a slower pace. You come to conclusions by thinking slower that you could when you're thinking faster." Am I the only person who didn't realise this until just now?

[Iva]

I can totally relate to what he's said there. In fact, I feel better after reading it and I already thanked Chris for having asked him something that lead to such an explanation and confession, so I'm thanking him again here, publically.

Exactly one month ago, in one of those overly-anxious moments (I have a combo of mild to moderate anxiety triggered by PMDD - sorry to share), I started writing a poem in the middle of the night. It went on for four big pages, the letters were of various sizes, leaning to both left and right. I felt thirsty and I went to get cold beverage from the fridge, stopped by the bathroom...

...10 minutes later, I was looking at the same poem and wondering what made me write it, what was I thinking?! I sat down and rewrote the whole thing, then walked around a bit again. In the end, the final version of the poem, version number 6, was nowhere like the original. It was articulated, meaningful, while the first one was angry gibberish. But I decided to keep them all, as reminiscents of states of mind I was going through that day.

[Licou]

I used to keep a diary too, and subconciously part of the reason i was writing the stuff in it was so that i would go back and look at it again to see what it meant. Sometimes when you read parts back you get taken back to what you were feeling at the time, but sometimes you dont and to understand something you may have to right it lots and lots of times. I also really like that you can think of things you would have never of thought of without a pen.

[lindsey_rt]

oh god, he knows the feeling of emptiness like I do.

"Sometimes you might write the same thing all the time 'I'm so sad, I'm so miserable…' I've written those same entries in my notebook so many times- the same exact words." :/ I can so relate... must be why i love his lyrics so much Thank you for this, Chris!

[this velvet glove]

lindsey_rt, on Nov 24 2008, 07:14 PM, said:

oh god, he knows the feeling of emptiness like I do.

"Sometimes you might write the same thing all the time 'I'm so sad, I'm so miserable…' I've written those same entries in my notebook so many times- the same exact words." :/ I can so relate... must be why i love his lyrics so much Thank you for this, Chris!

Same here!

Last night I was writing and I realised I was just repeating myself but it didnt matter because I was getting it out. Then I read something I wrote a few weeks back and the word were so different and I could'nt imagine having wrote those same words at any other time than I did because my mind was at a different place. Then tonight I read the interview and it was what I had just experienced. The universe works in mysterious ways.

[horriblemashup]

they should publish the bit about kurt cobain, hendrix and all that next

good interview so far. interesting stuff

[Tigara]

"I came up with the idea that fate is also a law. We follow it. ?

I saved the fly. I didn't change it's fate.
I couldn't."


I have been away for a bit, so sorry if I am to late to respond in a timely matter to this, but I did want to add a thought to this, to share an idea that I had been taught,

I dont think that fate is a law of the Universe, in the way that magnatism or gravity, or Correspondences are.
I think of fate as a hand of card you have been delt, but it is up to you how you play them, that makes for your destiny. DNA can be changed by beliefs (check out the reseach by mircobiologist Bruce Lipton, esp his Biology of Belief bok for clarifaction on this).

That fly is destined to die, you just changed his destiny.

I have enjoyed the article very much, as a Holistic healthcare Practioner I am very interested in the healing aspects of the mind, and ways to facilitate healing in my fellow Brothers and Sisters, as an occultist I am very interested in the minds ability to change and create reality.

Cant wait for the rest.

Blessed Be

[Iva]

Guys, look at the interview again, there's a scan of Today's lyrics.

[Marius]

If John wrote a book it would be a heavy piece of philosophy but a great help for many people and the whole world. He's become a very wise man during the last decade!!

[unhinged-sock]

I would love to read a book by John on this subject. I find it all so fascinating! I am an avid supporter of analysing the process of things, which includes thoughts in every day life. I like to know how things work in both the physical and non-physical sense.

This is a very beautiful interview MrP. Thank you so much for sharing it with the world!

[lindsey_rt]

Yeah, I think that his intelligence has increase a lot, too. He could write a book on his views on life (along with a bunch of other things going on in his mind) and I'm sure there would be lots of people interested.

[RedHotJSC_87]

if he wrote about all the things going on in his mind..... we would have an entire Library dedicated to just his thoughts....(which is a good thing)

[repeatmonday]

It would be incredible if he wrote a book about his theories and thoughts and views about things...I'm sure I'd understand it a lot more than my English teacher!

I think he kind of is writing a book, though, by publishing all this music for us, we couldn't really ask for him to do so much more when he's already put his heart into so much.

If you put all his lyrics together, you really would have a book, a great book at that, and it would be an amazing story for anyone to read, because people can really interpret it any way they want to.

[Iva]

His blog is his book, that's how I see it.

And occasional pearls like this interview, without the "OMG, he be da dumb guy who not knaw what wuz bombd in 2001" bits that mainstream press tends to add to articles.

[MrP]

There are a few more out-takes that follow on directly from part 2 of the interview that is now up.

http://www.hillingdonmind.org.uk/

It'd be a shame to waste them.

John:

'In music this idea is being express, and by the end of the song there’s every element of the music that has been doing something, is constantly at a different number than other things, and to top it off depending on where a musician puts something- in relationship to where the other musician puts something- these things seem to have sort of way of pushing and pulling at each another- of offsetting one another. The straightest drumbeat can sound like a really funky drumbeat if the guitar player is delicately placing his notes in between in certain ways. I’ve got the point where I’m constantly analysing music from this numerical standpoint, as I’ve become aware of a system of analysing music where it’s very graspable from these relationships. I’ve been learning music on my guitar my whole life studying- learning the bass part, learning the guitar part, learning the keyboard part, and I’ve noticed that in music I hear as being bad- it expresses very little about change- and that’s another thing that I feel like music is constantly expressing- is that change: that’s the nature of motion and movement, and in the end it’s nothing actually that’s changed… I’m getting off the subject.'

There's about another 1000 words of out-take. Iva has it.

There'll be no more out-takes for a little while.

Also the lyrics for 'Today' have be rescanned and so you can now read them properly. Hope you enjoy:

http://www.hillingdo...g.uk/lyrics.php