Downtown Library
Yesterday we had the day off, so I drove downtown to hit the Los Angeles public library to wander around all the words and work on some lyrics. Just walked up and down the aisles and looked in random books for things that excited me. I checked out some Nietzsche stuff and it was really engrossing. Especially a chapter in "Human, all too Human" about the soul of the artist. Amazing stuff. Then I went into the crime section and checked out a book called "The Dark Fountain" about some serial killer early last century that posed as a religious missionary from "The Lamb of God", but would end up murdering his prospective converts.
The Library was massive - I only saw a fraction of it, looked around the Tom Bradley wing mainly. There is a huge atrium with these giant art piece chandeliers that reminded me of New York. When you see that kind of grand interior installation, it's pretty common out there, but in L.A. it's pretty special. I walked around the streets a bit, then the lyrics to "Outsider" started to come so I sat in my car and put them down... nothing about Nietzche or Dark Fountains, but I find that "getting lost" and letting the randomness of a day hit you can let your mind open up to the creative voices sometimes.
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