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Subject: RE: [motm] Re: MOTM & me turn up....

From: Neil Bradley <nb@...>
Date: 2006-02-21

> In my admittedly limited experience, the most creative people I've
> encountered are slobs to some degree or another.

I'll make it known, that no matter how messy my office is, there's nothing
gross in it. No undiscovered cat puke, dirty underwear, uneaten
sandwiches, etc... There is no smell. ;-) I managed to release a bit over
6 retail products working in my "mess" last year.

> Conversely, many of the beautiful, well-organized studios one finds
> pictured on the web often seem to have a conspicuous absense of tangible
> output (i.e. CDs or even downloadable samples of works). The place looks
> nice but one wonders whether they spend more time tidying it than
> actually making music in it. That's not to say that being a slob is a
> necessary prerequisite for creativity, but there is definitely a
> correlation in my observation.

Amen, brother Adam. Why clean it up if it's just going to get dirty again?
;-)

-->Neil

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