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roachboy · 04-04-2008, 06:57 PM

evolving..i dont know.

i know that the one thing about tfp that has been enormously important to me and for me has been the journal--but it's also the most self-centered of things and perhaps that says something i dont know.
i started in in july 2004 and have done something in it almost daily since, often just to write or organize something. but almost every day.
the effects of simply maintaining a daily practice there have been really important to and for me---it's enabled me to transform how i write in the non-tfp world--and even though i sometimes wonder if it's all gone too far, in that these transformations have linked to others and have caused as much trouble for me as anything else in terms of reception-- it's been part of an experience that i wouldn't trade for anything. it's radicalized what i do. and it's let me work on technique. it's a practice space. and i like to practice. but it's not just practicing because i understand that folk read it, and i'm glad that is the case and appreciate as well that folk look at it and make whatever they make of it.

as for the board--i dont know.
i don't find it pushes me to anything. it doesn't teach me anything new in a big sense, but at the same time there are interesting folk who do not think as i do and there's interesting information and enough of interest that i keep playing----but i can't say that there's much happening that involves evolution. not for me anyway.

on the other hand, i do know that when i first made roachboy, he was an asshole: and now he's only an asshole sometimes. so i suppose that's evolution.

04-04-2008, 06:57 PM	#11 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	evolving..i dont know. i know that the one thing about tfp that has been enormously important to me and for me has been the journal--but it's also the most self-centered of things and perhaps that says something i dont know. i started in in july 2004 and have done something in it almost daily since, often just to write or organize something. but almost every day. the effects of simply maintaining a daily practice there have been really important to and for me---it's enabled me to transform how i write in the non-tfp world--and even though i sometimes wonder if it's all gone too far, in that these transformations have linked to others and have caused as much trouble for me as anything else in terms of reception-- it's been part of an experience that i wouldn't trade for anything. it's radicalized what i do. and it's let me work on technique. it's a practice space. and i like to practice. but it's not just practicing because i understand that folk read it, and i'm glad that is the case and appreciate as well that folk look at it and make whatever they make of it. as for the board--i dont know. i don't find it pushes me to anything. it doesn't teach me anything new in a big sense, but at the same time there are interesting folk who do not think as i do and there's interesting information and enough of interest that i keep playing----but i can't say that there's much happening that involves evolution. not for me anyway. on the other hand, i do know that when i first made roachboy, he was an asshole: and now he's only an asshole sometimes. so i suppose that's evolution. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 04-04-2008 at 07:01 PM..