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This is a blog about the creative process. It features anecdotes and links and other glimpses into the act of creating things.

Creativity is beautiful and blinding and painful and the most human thing we do. Let's look at it some more. It matters.

Things I otherwise write or have written:
A book.
Items in many anthologies.
Plays of varying lengths.
Video games.
Commercials.
Radio stories on a broad range of topics for various national public radio programs.
Assorted blogs.
A Twitter feed (@johnmoe).
Book reviews.

Other creative things I've done:
Hosted public radio shows of the national and local varieties.
Sung in rock bands.
Acted in many stage plays and commercials.
Ran an electronic greeting cards site, poorly.
Edited Amazon.com's toy store site.
Parented.

I've also worked as a file clerk for a law firm that represented Exxon in the Valdez spill.

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21st January 2010

Video

Here is Nirvana doing a cover of Seasons In The Sun. Cobain on drums, Grohl on bass, Novoselic on guitar. I think most bands at least kick around the notion of a “let’s switch instruments” song but here it is in action. As with their Bowie cover at the Unplugged concert, there is a hesitancy to Cobain here because he’s shy and might not know the song all the way and is probably high. But as with that Bowie cover or a lot of his down tempo stuff, the hesitancy works. You also see in these clips that it was probably Grohl who held that band together. (clip found via Kottke)

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