Lizette, Taylor, Danity

Unrelated stuff:

(1) I like this song "This Is" by Lizette &: Copies Alanis's sensitive, piercingly pitched vengeance, tosses it into Nine Inch Nails metal machine thwak.

(2) Good Taylor Swift interview by Ken Tucker posted at Billboard. "And the thing is, we just didn't know any better. I was 16 years old and wrote all these songs about being in high school and sophomore relationships, not thinking that people would relate to it, hoping they would, but there really was no business model to make it work for the younger demographic."

(3) Danity Kane album Welcome To The Dollhouse enters at Number One! ("Damaged" is maybe the sixth-best track on the album. My favorites are the ones with floating gobs of vocal beauty: "Bad Girl" and "Pretty Boy" and "Is Anybody Listening..." I like that they're committed to using all the voices at once.)

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From Luc's blog:

Picking up a copy of Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller or George Ade's Fables in Slang or Chester Himes's Blind Man With a Pistol and leafing through it for five minutes helps restore my writing style when it has gone stale.

So, what works for you when your writing goes stale? (Basically, I've tried everything, and nothing works for me when my writing goes stale; I just have to write through it and try not to let my own staleness shut me down. Reading other writers in their freshness just makes me feel that I'm worse in comparison. I do read Otis Ferguson to try to restore myself to good humor, however.)