This week i found Woody to be especial interesting. I relate to him a lot, i found this mostly due to some quotes i found of him. He is a man that wants to bring people up and he believes in the power of love a the importance of what is in front of you.
"I hate a song that makes you think you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody.No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim. Too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I'm out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you."
His soul comes out through his songs. In Red River Valley, this is the typical song of a lost love, but there was not the dark feeling that came with many of the music we have learn about in the earlier classes. He speaks of his love that he will miss and the feeling he has, as well as how he wishes she will come back. As folk song typical go, she does not come back, she is forever leaving. But he does not feel worse knowing this, he wishes her all the love and he relieves himself of the longing feeling and only hopes she remember the great memories that have made together.
This is the type of message i enjoy and this is why i connected to woody a lot.
I wanted to create a project based on that feeling of wishing for the best rather that self loathing and longing, but i found it very hard to accurately portray how i felt.
I then moved on to This Land is Our land, and i took those aspects of Woody i found inspiring and connected them to a simplistic view of This Land is Our Land, which i tend to enjoy doing. The Morals is no matter the size, shape, location, or visual of a being, we all have beauty to share and if you share that beauty that comes from the inside that you should belong every where. I do not believe every one is a great person, and i am not someone who preaches that you should love everyone always and equally. I don't see that as realistic, how ever i do believe that if someone has a good soul that can change a lot of peoples views and bring the beauty out of individuals. Woody was one of those people.
From this I made a cricket, a seemingly insignificant insect, producing a rainbow of musical notes. They create music themselves, that i relate to wonderful times and when i hear them at night is the forest is bring me back to the basics, which woody does. Love and treat people well, bring em up instead of down.
