Bad for the ears

I was sitting at my day job earlier about pull off my own ears, or stab through them with a pencil. Why? Because so many of the songs I came across were so poorly written. No storyline, no cohesion, mixed metaphors (and not in an artful way), bad structure (or none at all), outdated instrumentation choices...I could go on forever. But I won't.

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Grow It: AHC Arts & Crafts

When I was little, my primary exposure to art and crafts was gluing macaroni onto construction paper and drawing rainbows around it. But what could I have learned if there had been more guidance, more theory, more education behind it? Kids can learn a multitude of things from art – color theory, spatial relationships, even simple math. So why is it that there isn’t more art in schools?

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