Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

In this recent interview, Kristin Hersh explains just how subjective each minute decision made in the recording studio is. The interviewer finds this fascinating: “You would think, looking at it from the outside, that it’s all so calculated.” I love her response:

Ooo. That would be so sad. Your brain is the first organ to lie to you. If you told music what to do, it would be terrible!”

I love her way of thinking. I’ve thought that for years… that you can’t always trust what you think. Not all facts are truth, and I find that so many people get that wrong! A correlary to that is that noone gets to decide what they feel. It’s your job to first become very aware of what you feel. That’s pretty good on its own. Once you have that down, then maybe you can work out why, but it’s the labeling of the raw emotion that I find most important. People tend to spend an awful lot of time denying they feel some way and explaining that they actually feel this way they WANT to feel or that they think would be better to feel. It wastes a lot of time.
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BTW, I have been in New York at a licensure exam workshop. I’m not blogging about my licensure/job path because frankly, I don’t like talking about it. I’m asked so many questions, and I just want to get on with it. I have a plan now. I have focus. Just let me do my thing, and within a few months, I’ll have something to say.