Writing is going great this week (thanks for asking) but I won't set the Jinx Monster loose by saying anything else on that. It's enough to know that my head is together and work is being produced at a rate that pleases my soul. Is it coincidental that my iPhone has been on holiday to Apple HQ for some TLC and I have been without a pocket sized comms device for a little while? Perhaps.
It came back this morning. I synced it up, checked in on a few things and then put it out of the way but I guess there will come a day soon when we will have a showdown - and I kinda like the way I'm feeling about having written a lot. Maybe I should just learn to discipline myself.
Anyway, this evening, as a 'treat' for doing what I'm supposed to be doing and having kicked the hell out of the thing I wanted to get done today, I thought I'd watch a movie to celebrate. Something with monsters perhaps... but I get sidetracked when I found a film I meant to watch a couple of years back, never did and subsequently forgot all about.
It's called The End Of The Tour which is, more or less, a conversation between two writers: David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace - and yeah, that's where the title comes from - it really is fucking wonderful - even the poster is fucking wonderful:
It's on Netflix if you're of a mind to check it out.
A few weeks back, while I was working on some Big Bear Rescue things, I found this great advert:
I've never heard of this campaign before but sometime soon, I'll dig a little further and see what they like to do. Fucking wonderful advert regardless.
To wrap up... I also found this pic of the handwritten lyrics to Soundgarden's The Day I Tried To Live which I'm going to repost here just because it's cool as hell and if nothing else, goes to prove you don't need anything beyond a pencil to write a fucking wonderful song...
So in a nutshell, this post is nothing but some semi-interesting stuff I found when I wasn't doing what I should have been doing. In Writer-Land, we call that 'taking a break'.
And then I shaved.