(via foyobli)
We could be friends.
the only oscar noms i care about
Saying goodbye to 2015 has been nice.
“I also think that maybe, maybe if I knew everything about why people respond to my music so much, I might be in trouble.”
“A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf — at any rate it is safer from criticism.”
— Herman Melville
(via explore-blog)
“All the attention and engagement and work you need to get from the reader can’t be for your benefit; it’s got to be for hers. What’s poisonous about the cultural environment today is that it makes this so scary to try to carry out. Really good work probably comes out of a willingness to disclose yourself, open yourself up in spiritual and emotional ways that risk making you look banal or melodramatic or naive or unhip or sappy, and to ask the reader really to feel something. To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow.”
This is over two years old, but I only just encountered it this week. Rich isn’t the most compelling speaker, but I love the game Fez so much that this was particularly fascinating to me. Some main takeaways:
- Exercise your freedom to improvise
- Write with reckless abandon
- Record everything you possibly can
- Re-use and recycle your dusty ideas
“It’s like that thing Norman Mailer said: The boxer never really has an opponent, they’re just fighting themselves. But that’s the human condition. It’s impossible to talk about without saying everything at once.”
— Josh Tillman, Father John Misty: How to Make Love