inspiration

Today I am listening to 1 of over 1000+ songs put onto a DVD of mine. Most of them I have never listened to. Where do people get the inspiration to write such songs? A good deal of the themes presented within the songs (using riffs) would have never crossed my mind in a million years. Where do they get it?
This is not just with music, either. Poetry and art have it going, too. Some of the themes I read/see I never would've taken a second to think about.
Take, for example, this clip from sifl & Olly:
The quicksand is deep around here
It is life.
A leather ashtray filled with the Queens cigars
It is life.
Dropping a thousand beanbags out of an airplane
It is Leif Garret...I mean life.
A snowcone's skeleton displayed in a hologram.
Life is it!...thus it is life.
A football stadium filled with pudding
As aiplanes lower the giant spoon.
...It is....
Robotic Sausages that can roll and beep.
IT IS LIFE!
LIFE!!
LIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE!!!

Now, I should point out that there are some who try to create something inspirational for the sake of saying, "Look, it's inspirational, don't you think? You like good, don't you!" There may be few pictures/musical arrangements/mediums/whatever out there that convey some sort of inspiration that are made from these people, but if they do the artist surely overlooked it (you'll have just as much luck being inspirational by creating your work with no reasoning behind it). You will have a higher chance of success if you have an idea or emotion that you want to convey.

I'm glad in some ways that others point out ideas to me that I have overlooked or would never have considered. Otherwise this world would be a duller place, and I would lack inspiration.

I'm not saying that I'm inspired right now. I'm merely pointing out what i'm thinking at the moment. When I'm inspired I know it.

On a side note, while writing this: sometimes I find language to be the incorrect way to express what I'm thinking. Right now I wish I could use pictures to explain it. Writing takes time, and before I know it, I've lost what I was thinking to the confines of my tangential mind. Maybe if i keep a notebook around when I have a good idea....

In tangent form (this paragraph is extremely inappropriately placed. Rather than fixing it you'll have to live with it), when I look at someone's music, I automatically try to apply it to myself to see how I feel. Maybe blend some of my imagination into it. Do I feel like I'm up in the clouds? Sad in a dark corner? Am I free? Oppressed? Winning? Losing? Careless? Prudent? A mix of any of these?
When I look at an art work, do I understand or even relate to what the character is relating? Do I know why? Does the character inspire courage within? Doubt? Fun? I imagine i'm in the character's position. What am I expecting? What has already happened? and so forth

And then there's operas/plays.


Just another avenue of escape from personal reality

D.