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412 - A Process for Using Creative Influences to Find A Unique Path for Yourself

Creative Pep Talk

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How to Dance to Your Own Tune

When I get stuck and I don't know which path to take the second thing that helps me get moving again is embracing the idea that dancing to my own tune is partially about dancing to 10 other people's tunes all at the same time. All albums are a smashing together of a bunch of different influences and tastes and and digging out the middles the medians between their heroes favorite works. Star Wars is kind of a rip off of Flash Gordon but Flash Gordon is kind of an adaptation of Buck Rogers' Princess of Mars, says John Pargan. The movie that changed culture was a Girl Talk album said Kirby Ferguson.

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