Book Meets Band

Here's what happens when you take book titles and merge them with band names...

Some of my favorites:

About a Boy George
The Three Muskateers for Fears
Motley Crüsoe
Deborah Harry Potter
Of Mice and Men at Work
The Agony and the XTC
Oh, the Places You'll Go-Gos
The Natalie Merchant of Venice
Romeo Void and Juliet
Of Mice and Men Without Hats
The Elements of Style Council
The Smiths Family Robinson
Everything But the Girl, Interrupted
The Maltese Falco
Moby Dick
Tuesdays With Morris Day & the Time
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Heart of Darkness
The Five Village People You Meet in Heaven
Chicken Soup for the Soul Asylum
J-Lolita
Nineteen-Eighty-Four-Non-Blondes
The Little Prince & The Revolution
Gone With/Inherit the the Earth Wind and Fire


Your Art Action: leave your own creations in my comments! :)

An Allegory

Thoughts from a Fostering Family: An Allegory

I thought this was an amazing post about fostering. Read it.

Art Action: Write a paragraph about your family of origin. Then leave it on a seat/bench/chair somewhere.

Improv Everywhere!

I loved this Best Buy Mission!

It's exactly the type of thing I'd like this blog to report on and to become. A bit of art...everywhere.

Rob Gonsalves: Tributaries

Here's an interesting piece--it reminds me of a Dali/Escher hybrid.

Creative

This is from a relationship newsletter, written by Katherine and Gay Hendricks...

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** Relationship Tip of the Day **
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Creativity is a key to healthy relationships. Open up more to your
creativity and you will see greater possibilities in your intimate
relationships. Do you have ideas and inspirations that go unfulfilled? An
idea for a new book. An invention. A creative solution to a problem. Get
busy with them and watch what magic unfolds in your relationships.

Creative impulses happen all the time. What we do with these ideas and
inspirations determines our success or failure in receiving the benefits
of our creativity.

Here are tips for taking your inspirations from idea into form:

** Notice "when" you feel most inspired. When you first wake up. During
walks in nature. After a meditation. Playing or listening to music.

** Prepare yourself to capture creative impulses as close as possible to
the moment of creation. Have ready pen/pencil, post-it notes, pad of
paper, marker, recorder, computer, etc. at various locations "where" you
often feel most inspired. Capture your inspirations.

** Do something right away with your idea or inspiration. As close as
possible to when you get the idea, write it down (or record it). If you
like, share it with a spouse, partner, friend, colleague while it's still
fresh. Often with time, any strong feelings you had with an idea pass.
Documenting the feeling and essence of the creative impulse will allow you
to tap into the original feeling later on more easily.

** Organize your ideas in such a way that you set it up for you to
successfully complete them. Find or create an organizational system (like
filing cabinets, computer files, etc.) that works easily for you.

Successful people are superb at taking their dreams and inspirations from
idea through to completion. They understand how to be inspired and how
important it is to honor their inspirations. They strengthen their
connecting to the source of inspirations, and they take easy, simple
steps, one-step-at-a-time to move their dreams and ideas along. As a
result, they experience a wonderful flow of creativity and enriching
ideas, continually throughout their lives.