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Originally Posted by neverending
Ed Wood Jr.
The real one, not Johnny Depp. Full of dreams & aspirations but without the talent or resources to realize them.
I can see myself ending up like dear Ed at the end of his life, living in a dirty apartment, writing soft-core porn to make ends meet, drinking himself into a stupor every night. |
This is actually a good thing. It means that someday someone will discover your life's work and you'll be the next celebrated outsider artist.
I wouldn't be so certain about the "without the talent" part. It's all about your level of conviction and whether or not you're inwardly forced to express that talent.
Ed Wood reminds me a lot of Jess Franco. The real difference being their early resources. Both could have done MUCH greater things had they been less defensive psychologically speaking. Like Jess Franco living directly in and around Spain, Ed Wood isolated himself also and was afraid to open up to endorsements for fear of a lack of control when the time and opportunity presented itself to him. What wood needed to do was to write the porn first, in an effort to sustain what would *be* his prime personal artistic voice. Rather than waiting until life later shoved it's economically puss oozing cruddy athletic foot down his throat. In short, you gotta be a calculating slut and driven to a fault to get anywhere in time to make your real voice heard in a prime fashion. The trick is to not miss the window that opens inward in an effort to avoid the window that later opens outward. The later window is the one you wanna jump out of.
get busy. write porn today. :D