Pen’s most important lesson for any creative: not technique or timing, but the huge cost of inaction. “My errors of omission have cost me far more than my errors of commission,” he explains. “The places where I cowarded out, because I was embarrassed or thought I would look too pushy—where I held myself back—those are the things I regret.”
I see Paul Thomas Anderson finally got his Oscar – which I still think should have been for THERE WILL BE BLOOD – and FRANKENSTEIN quite rightly got the nod for costume design.
Dark indigo denim shirt, dark indigo denim jeans, dark navy sailcloth chore jacket, dark blue leather slip-ons and a blue linen scarf: spring is creeping in. The apple trees and cherry trees in the garden are budding, and I’ve planted a plum tree and a pear tree over the weekend. Time to start the berries soon. Double espresso at the coffee shop, and I’m debating a walk down to the deli for cheese, bresaola and quince paste. Winter feels definitively over, and god knows it wasn’t much of a winter this year. I feel cheated. But the seasons will do what they do, and it’s time to get back in my body. Gig at the weekend, and there’s a couple of things on at the Jazz Centre that caught my eye.
Fuck all going on in my RSS feed this morning, so I’m heading into my email. Or going for a walk.
OPERATIONS: Across three different jobs today, staging them up for the week’s production.
STATUS: Attacking my email. Burned 3400 calories yesterday but my heart rate only got up to 128, which is a good thing. No heart attack.
READING: THE BOOK OF COMMENTARY / UNQUIET GARDEN OF THE SOUL, Alexander Kluge (UK) (US+) and THE VISIONARIES, Wolfram Eilenberger (UK) (US+)
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