Attention songwriters, poets and other artists. When something pops into your head, write it down right then, before it gets away. Seriously, somebody else gets it if you don’t. Ideas flow around you and your muse is your antenna. Use it. Bill Monroe, credited with inventing Bluegrass, once said that he didn’t invent anything. He just reached up and grabbed what was already flowing around….Think about that.
H Allen Smith once wrote an entire article on the “brilliant” notes that people jot down in the night, only to find that they are absolute gibberish in the cold light of day.
Me personally, I’ve gotten ideas for a couple of songs that way, but usually it’s concepts like “crocodile udders”.
I keep a pad of paper and pencil on my headboard just for these occasions (I’m a design engineer). The results I get are very similar to what Danae got.
I hate it when I have a brilliant world-changing idea then it disappears and I can’t get it back. Sometimes I think the universe has a self-correcting mechanism that erases my ideas before it is too late.
Paul McCartney, the first time he tried pot, insisted his roadie write down all his brilliant thoughts. Checked it the next day. It read “There are seven levels.”
Old joke. Another person woke from a sound sleep with what he thought was the perfect explanation for the emotional differences between the sexes, wrote it down, then went back to sleep. When he awoke, he found this:“Higamus, hogamus, women are monogamous.
Hogamus, higamus, men are polygamous."
In this day and age, the appropriateness of the above might be questioned, but the validity seems to remain.
My father had a “brilliant idea” in the middle of the night but it was gone by morning. He resolved to keep a pencil and pad next to the bed. And “SURPRISE” the same “brilliant idea” occurred to him the next night and he wrote it down. The next morning he read, “What an incredible stink!”
I often write down dreams. I had a brilliant idea in a dream once, and wrote it down. In the morning, I excitedly grabbed the notebook, and read, “Something smells funny.”
I woke up once in the middle of the night knowing the reason for the universe and existence. I wrote it down, then fell back to sleep. In the morning, after waking up, I read what I had written down. It said, “Monogamy is monogamous.”
I think that what I wrote down, and what Danae wrote down, are about the same.
Watcher about 7 years ago
I think Danae has to go see Jeffrey to get the translation.
Kaputnik about 7 years ago
Not only is it incoherent, but it sounds awfully innocent and cute for our little evil girl.
Varnes about 7 years ago
Attention songwriters, poets and other artists. When something pops into your head, write it down right then, before it gets away. Seriously, somebody else gets it if you don’t. Ideas flow around you and your muse is your antenna. Use it. Bill Monroe, credited with inventing Bluegrass, once said that he didn’t invent anything. He just reached up and grabbed what was already flowing around….Think about that.
Varnes about 7 years ago
Anyway, I think Danae should riff on “Boopty”. BTW, I’m told the last entry was POOP!, but Go Comics censored it…….
dadoctah about 7 years ago
H Allen Smith once wrote an entire article on the “brilliant” notes that people jot down in the night, only to find that they are absolute gibberish in the cold light of day.
Me personally, I’ve gotten ideas for a couple of songs that way, but usually it’s concepts like “crocodile udders”.
Say What? Premium Member about 7 years ago
Her written thoughts can fit in a tweet, at least.
johndifool about 7 years ago
…I’ve got a special warning for you…?
sonnygreen about 7 years ago
I keep a pad of paper and pencil on my headboard just for these occasions (I’m a design engineer). The results I get are very similar to what Danae got.
Linguist about 7 years ago
Waking up in the middle of the night and writing down your ideas, and dreams, or jotting them down, when you’re stoned, can be disappointing.
Those brilliant thoughts, in the cold light of sober dawn, look exactly like Danae’s gibberish – especially, if your penmanship is as lousy as mine !
sandpiper about 7 years ago
Actually, a lot of my normal daytime thinking comes out like that, so I can fully empathize with Danae
Ignatz Premium Member about 7 years ago
One of those should have said “covfefe.”
johnec about 7 years ago
Just goes to show the evil and inimical influence of relaxing and finding inner peace on the typical megalomaniacal mind!
Perhaps Danae just needs a good night’s sleep.
Perhaps other people of greater national importance could stand to sleep a lot more too!
Masterskrain about 7 years ago
Sadly, Trump just Tweets his insanity…
WaitingMan about 7 years ago
Roy Moore gives two thumbs up to today’s “Non Sequitur”.
cooganm Premium Member about 7 years ago
Eid ma clack shaw
Cerabooge about 7 years ago
Not brilliant, but there were times I went to sleep, and woke up with a solution to a problem at work. I should have charged them for my sleep time.
iantheevil about 7 years ago
I hate it when I have a brilliant world-changing idea then it disappears and I can’t get it back. Sometimes I think the universe has a self-correcting mechanism that erases my ideas before it is too late.
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member about 7 years ago
Paul McCartney, the first time he tried pot, insisted his roadie write down all his brilliant thoughts. Checked it the next day. It read “There are seven levels.”
kaffekup about 7 years ago
Brilliant idea, indeed, Danae, run with it!
Charlie Fogwhistle about 7 years ago
Old joke. Another person woke from a sound sleep with what he thought was the perfect explanation for the emotional differences between the sexes, wrote it down, then went back to sleep. When he awoke, he found this:“Higamus, hogamus, women are monogamous.
Hogamus, higamus, men are polygamous."
In this day and age, the appropriateness of the above might be questioned, but the validity seems to remain.
KEA about 7 years ago
Still looking for a good way to record bits of music compositions that pop up when I’m doodling around on my DGX.
whiteaj about 7 years ago
This is what happens to me when I try to write down my dreams.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 7 years ago
Men want to spread their seed, women can only hold it.
BiathlonNut about 7 years ago
My father had a “brilliant idea” in the middle of the night but it was gone by morning. He resolved to keep a pencil and pad next to the bed. And “SURPRISE” the same “brilliant idea” occurred to him the next night and he wrote it down. The next morning he read, “What an incredible stink!”
Donald Heller about 7 years ago
I often write down dreams. I had a brilliant idea in a dream once, and wrote it down. In the morning, I excitedly grabbed the notebook, and read, “Something smells funny.”
Joliet Jake about 7 years ago
“Like flaming globes of Sigmund!”
RonBerg13 Premium Member about 7 years ago
I woke up once in the middle of the night knowing the reason for the universe and existence. I wrote it down, then fell back to sleep. In the morning, after waking up, I read what I had written down. It said, “Monogamy is monogamous.”
I think that what I wrote down, and what Danae wrote down, are about the same.