Brighter than a Buoy

Songwriter Carsie Blanton blogs about flotsam, jetsam, flim and flam.

Monday, August 29, 2011

until that morning

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It's midnight in Atlanta. I'm sitting in the "living room" at a mixing studio, which consists of a table with three chairs...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

on living a creative life

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“We can never be born enough. We are human beings; for whom birth is a supremely welcome mystery, the mystery of growing: the mystery which ...
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Monday, August 1, 2011

blissed half to death

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Can I make an observation? Doing what you love - "following your bliss" - is a totally insane, preposterous and irrational thing t...
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Sunday, June 12, 2011

the big exciting news

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Well, it's happened again. I've written a complete batch of shiny new songs, and I'm ready to make an album. I am more excited t...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

the lazy mississippi, a hurryin to spring

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I just spent an afternoon on the levee in the Holy Cross neighborhood of New Orleans, watching the brown Mississippi lap the tops of willow ...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

like a summer with a thousand Julys

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Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson - "You Go to My Head" - October 1957
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

playing pointlessly

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My favorite favorite book, if I had to pick one, is called "Finite and Infinite Games". In the opening pages, the author James P. ...
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