Just a Second ago, I Thought I Rewound that Tape...

Today, I heard, for the first time, the musician Jeremy Messersmith. I can't imagine ever not having the name Messersmith on my mind now. I feel like that one word could effectively change my entire vocabulary, and affect how I see language as a whole. Communication will never be the same again.
As for visual artists, I heard just a bit ago that a new painting was discovered from artist Giovanni Boldini. I decided to look him up, since I liked the look of what was found. There's someone his work reminds me of, but I can't think of who it is. He has such a classical style, but with such a modern feel. Ironic since he didn't live past 1931. Perhaps that's not all that ironic now that I think about it.
I feel like his paintings exemplify my opinion of talent. I feel like when someone has clearly more talent than they know what to do with, they can basically start to play with it. Kind of like the scene in Amadeus that takes place backstage after a show and Mozart's just playing around on his piano but playing gorgeous melodies, while the singers that accompanied him drink and sing with the same level of professionalism and play. People would have payed so much to be allowed to see what was essentially nothing to them. By that point, they'd become such masters of their craft that it could simply pour forth with no effort. It was like a reflex for them. I feel like I'm seeing the same thing at work in Boldini's paintings. The way so many of his backgrounds are simply thrown in, but work so well, and accomplish such immense beauty. So much of his paint has a sort of whirlwind fury to its application. The kind of thing that looks as though it should have been mindless, but in the hands of someone like him, it can't help but have been mindful. He leaves so much suggested and alluded to rather than directly addressed, and he's good enough to make it work.
For the past few days I've been sort of obsessed with the song I Hate My Toaster by Two Piece Squirrel. I feel like that song goes perfectly with Boldini's work. It absolutely doesn't, of course, but I don't care, I feel like it works so well.
He makes me want to give up the dream that I'll ever accomplish anything.