{"id":176888,"date":"2024-03-16T17:36:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T17:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176888"},"modified":"2024-03-16T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T17:36:15","slug":"artistic-burnout-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/03\/16\/artistic-burnout-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Artistic Burnout Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">Sometime I wonder what I should be doing, but I just keep on keeping on as best I can. Stopping is not an option, especially so  at the moment. My head is a haunted house right now. My dreams are really strange too. Full of people I used know but havent seen for quite a while. <br>They are disturbing too. So I wake up a little troubled and perturbed.  Also I feel there is something I have forgotten to do but I can&#8217;t figure out quite what it is.  I get a lot of that these days too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(167deg,rgb(233,139,41) 0%,rgb(238,179,95) 43%)\"> <strong>World of woo<\/strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1773681429&amp;color=%23bd6f3c&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-beige-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">I guess we are just filling in time to push the fear to the back of our minds, or perhaps that&#8217;s just me. I would really like  to get a bit more light in my music as its got very dark and sad over time. I am not too sure what I could do about achieving that.  Maybe it needs an infusion of dancing rhythms?   I am looking but just not finding it right now. Indeed. Anyway I have to keep marching on regardless. So I do. <mark style=\"background-color:#eadaa6\" class=\"has-inline-color has-dark-gray-color\"><br><\/mark><br><strong>Persistence at times like this is everything. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-dates has-authors has-excerpts wp-block-rss\"><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/last-cigarette'>Last Cigarette<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-18T17:13:06+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">September 18, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Last Cigarette by Diana Stone<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/what-you-got'>What You Got<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-13T18:19:17+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">September 13, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">What You Got by Diana Stone<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/get-a-little-friendlier-one'>Get A Little Friendlier One Day<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-07T15:53:49+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">September 7, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A song about not wanting to make the first move and hoping that special somebody will know what you are thinking \u2665<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/nothing-to-see-here-nothings'>Nothing To See Here Nothings Changed<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-08-30T13:43:14+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">August 30, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A bit of folky existential dread<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/my-dream-cant-change-it'>My Dream Cant Change It<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-08-23T16:49:07+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">August 23, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">My Dream Cant Change It by Diana Stone<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/try-it-out-wheres-your-sense'>Try it out, Wheres your Sense of adventure<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-08-14T18:33:45+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">August 14, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A world trance dance crossover with some surprises along the way<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/parlour-music-no1'>Parlour Music no1<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-08-07T17:11:33+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">August 7, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A gentle 1900s style light Classical feel piece of music for solo piano<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/come-the-rain-radio-edit'>Come The Rain<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-08-01T17:07:27+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">August 1, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">World music vibe, wide open spaces<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/just-be-nice'>Just Be Nice<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-07-24T12:31:50+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">July 24, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">fast sightly punky thrashy shouty song<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/when-will-we-come-here-again'>When Will We Come Here Again<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-07-14T20:10:12+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">July 14, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A trance beat synth tune with a mellow piano vibe<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/heat-haze-for-piano-bb-minor'>Heat 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Full of people I used know but havent seen for quite a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/03\/16\/artistic-burnout-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Artistic Burnout Time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,4,3,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-music","category-musings","category-other","category-pictures"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-K12","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41805,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/05\/17\/folk-clubs-are-quite-good-fun\/","url_meta":{"origin":176888,"position":0},"title":"Folk Clubs are quite good fun","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 17, 2016","format":"status","excerpt":"I played at Waltham Abbey Folk Club last night and had a very nice time. 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