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(When you) lose yourself in the music, the moment

Soundtrack of my Life

Normally rated for Everyone, but the lyrics in the video contains some language

What can I do to reignite my writing -- Today would be the first day in a couple decades, honestly, when I have entertained writing a script. I give inspirational credit to the Oscars telecast (and all the truly great cinema that I watched in 2019). When I pulled together the seed of my script idea this morning, my first thought was, "I need to document this in my blog....That will get me to start on it seriously." But then, (probably as an avoidance tactic) I found myself neither in this Blog nor the Word document I opened at the beginning of the day. And in my Newsfeed...where I found something new to both distract and steer away from writing, but stir my creative curating -- The Soundtrack of Your Life Challenge

So, Day One seems serendipitous -- Eminem's Lose Yourself is my newly rediscovered pick. My re-introduction to this marvel of lyrics and even its beat came in one of those car trips when everyone in the car has to agree. Although I will admit it takes my youngest sometimes pushing, "You have to hear this song!" followed immediately by it being piped through the car speakers via HDMI connection, regardless of my interest. Here is also where I have to confess that I would have otherwise never given a thought to Eminem, since rap was not my scene.

The Oscar performance from Sunday, (which happened 17 years after the song was awarded the 2002 Best Song in a Motion Picture Oscar for 8 Mile ), is perhaps the better watch, but I am recognizing the actual song and all it says.

Songwriters: Jeffrey Irwin Bass / Marshall B Mathers / Luis Edgardo Resto
Lose Yourself lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.