My advice? Get back out there. Live life to the fullest – and stay for the whole damn show. It’s amazing.
Nick Cave
Mr. Cave is right.
Get back out there.
Savor it.
As read from his blog The Red Hand Files.
Category: ideas
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As read from Hermione Lee’s Penelope Fitzgerald, A Life
Writer Penelope Fitzgerald once wrote a biography on her father and his three brothers. Fathers and uncles aren’t the typical biographical portrait.
The structure of this index could be something to replicate. Quick notes on a new topic or city. Similar to Jack Kerouac’s sketches.
Lee, Hermione. Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life. United Kingdom, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014. pg10
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I’m the kind of person who is always early. I know a lot of people think it’s not very rock and roll to be punctual and courteous, but I disagree. I think manners are cool, and even revolutionary, and you won’t convince me otherwise. So fuck you.
As read from How to Write One Song.
Fight the power man. Be polite.
Tweedy, Jeff. How to Write One Song. United States, Penguin Publishing Group, 2020. pg 116,117
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It was the miracle God had wrought. And it was patently the sort of thing that could only happen once. Mechanically uncanny, it was like nothing that had ever come to the world before. Flourishing industries rose and fell with it. As a vehicle, it was hard working, commonplace, heroic; and it often seemed to transmit those qualities to the persons who rode it. My own generation identifies it with Youth, with its gaudy, irretrievable excitements; before it fades into the mist, I would like to pay it the tribute of the sigh that is not a sob, and set down random entries in a shape somewhat less cumbersome than a Sears Roebuck catalogue.
E.B. White
That from the essay Farewell, My Lovely!
I’d argue the miracle is happening twice. Watch this space.
Also, can you imagine living in an age where the 1909 Model T Ford was a symbol of Youth?
White, E. B.. Essays of E. B. White. United States, HarperCollins, 2014. pg 202
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What is the late November doing
With the disturbance of the spring
And creatures of the summer heat,
And snowdrops writhing under feet
And hollyhocks that aim too high
Red into grey and tumble down
Late roses filled with early snow?
Thunder rolled by the rolling stars
Simulates triumphal cars
Deployed in constellated wars
Scorpion fights against the Sun
Until the Sun and Moon go down
Comets weep and Leonids fly
Hunt the heavens and the plains
Whirled in a vortex that shall bring
The world to that destructive fire
Which burns before the ice-cap reigns.Snow in Paris? What is November doing?
T.S. Eliot…
A snippet from East Coker.
Eliot, T. S.. The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950. United States, Harcourt Brace, 1958. pg124,125
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When the video game artist Peter Chan was young, he loved to draw, but he would crumple up his “bad” drawings in fists of frustration. His father convinced him that if he laid the “bad” drawings flat instead of crumpling them up, he could fit more of them in the wastebasket. After his father died, Chan found a folder labeled “Peter” in his father’s possessions. When he looked inside, it was full of his old, discarded drawings. His father had snuck into his room and plucked the drawings he thought were worth saving from the wastebasket.
Encouragement takes many forms. Sometimes it’s fishing out beauty from a wastebasket.
As read from Austin Kleon’s Keep Going.
Kleon, Austin. Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad. United States, Workman Publishing Company, 2019. pg 33,34
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Men must endure their going hence, even as their coming hither…
– William Shakespeare
As read from John Hendrix’s The Mythmakers.
Hendrix, John. The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien (A Graphic Novel). United States, Abrams Fanfare, 2024. pg 154
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His name was Nikola Tesla.
A gifted inventor, a creature of habit.
A lover of animals, a friend to humankind.
A child of the storm, a child of the light.
A human flash of lightning, far ahead of his time.
- Azadeh WestergaardPicture books are underrated. Children’s books are underrated.
Westergaard, Azadeh. A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla. United Kingdom, Penguin Young Readers Group, 2021.
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Aside, aside! Here is more matter for a hot brain. Every lane’s end, every shop, church, session, hanging, yields a careful man work.
First Shakespeare quote. Did not expect it to come from Autolycus.
He may be one of Shakespeare’s most overlooked characters. He’s not a name that stood out on the roster of characters in The Winter’s Tale, but drives so much of the story in later acts of the play.
William Shakespeare. The Winter’s Tale. Edited by Frances E. Dolan. Series edited by Stephen Orgel. New York: Penguin Classics, 2017. pg 90
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One day, the writer was overwhelmed by the urge to paint again. He recognized in himself the desire that had been gagged and throttled, but never killed; he had stumbled upon the painter whom he had left for dead. He walked into a stationary shop, bought two bags of paints and pencils, and began to fill two dozen notebooks. His hand seemed to move of its own accord. One day it drew, the next day it wrote, “like someone autographing a page without even realizing they’re doing it.”
Collapse to the urge. Pull out the graphite. Pull out the pens. Pull out the paints.
Go!
from:
https://www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/art-portfolios/memories-distant-mountains
h/t – https://x.com/nabeelqu
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