haha i think i just got inspired coming home and seeing 14 replies! this forum is the best. thanks for all the suggestions guys! i'll try some.

i struggle with this as well, but here's what i've learned.

my job -- like, my employment -- is linked to my creative output. therefore i strongly endorse the idea of just sitting there working for a set number of hours, whether yr feelin' it or not. like: respect it like work, and the output will come. worst case scenario, you at least have something roughed in that you can come back to when you are inspired.

waiting around for inspiration can often lead to a LOT of waiting.

however, i dig working w/ inspiration too, and repeatedly watch a vid of cLOUDDEAD playing live, mush tour 2002. to me: super inspiring.

and i'd recommend THIS BOOK to everyone. it handed me back my ass in sooooo many good ways. funny, inspiring and fun:

http://www.amazon.com/Frustrated-Songwr ... 215&sr=8-1

good luck, yo.

clouddead is dope i bought his shyt on accident years ago and became an instant fan.

listen to dilla. shit moves me.

listen to whatever first got you in the mood to make music

Go skiing

Yeah but you guys get that good flake snow, we get that heavy pack here in Cali and it gets ugly when it ices over. I need to fly up to Whistler this season.

i'm having a hard time getting motivated lately too, i've been trying to push myself to record more music, learn to use the 404 a little more, draw and shit, anything creative but it's just not happening. i usually just come home from work, sit around, watch some shit, drink some beers, fall asleep. kind of a shitty cycle i've gotten myself into. the bleak weather definitely doesn't help either.

tiger woods golf while listening to music. hahaha. honestly though just listenin to other music, while not at home..i always then get so juiced to get home and make a beat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8spQwMR_Y4

a cloudead song that gets me amazingly juiced... rad ass performance using all kinds of neat stuff..

Caffeine, exercise, or my big trick, don't smoke for a while then blaze one. I recently had a huge dry spell and when it ended, man, I didn't have enough tape for the beats that poured out. Getting around to editing them is another story though.

Another thing I like to do is get rid of extra possessions. I theorize it focuses me on what's left. Imagine if all you owned was your gear, you'd probably make plenty beats right? Same idea.

oh yeah, that's cLOUDDEAD (well, "themselves") w/ the notwist.

that album is craaazy good. i saw themselves open for notwist here a few years ago and it was mind bending.

pretty much everything notwist touches amazes me, but paired with those freaks? fuuuuuuck....

do what i do......

or do what my grama marry does

Aww damn Jay beat me to it. Yeah basically, I spark up a fathead. My process? Gather £10, go to a guy, hand him my £10, receive 3.5g of green, put ALL of that shit in a rizla and *roll roll roll tuck roll lick rub* smoke that bitch.

Don't buy new equipment...