As one of us heard it, Guy Clark woke up in the back seat after a gig, wrote a line about getting off the L.A. freeway on a napkin, went back to sleep, and found the napkin 4 months later. The song that came of it is our case for writing every idea down. We both used to leave ideas unwritten, trusting the good ones to come back, and have both given that up for notebooks. We agree the first idea is rarely the best one, and that the best one only wins when nobody's ego is attached to it. Sometimes that means going back to the first idea after all, the way Bruce Springsteen kept the bedroom demos for Nebraska.
One of us half-remembers Alec Soth saying he had to stop walking into places sure of what he'd photograph. The same risk hangs over a project one of us has in mind: portraits of the people running Fourth of July fireworks tents. The good collaborations we've had run on what-ifs. One of us has had the other kind, with directors who used him as an unpaid writer to serve their own careers. At 44, one of us realizes he has run every creative idea of his life through one question, whether it could make money, without ever noticing. It ends when a doorbell rings and he has to go pick up his daughter from preschool.
-Ai
Show Notes:
The Century of the Self - https://bit.ly/48IPbcy
The Louisiana Channel - https://bit.ly/48IPm7I
The New Yorker - https://www.newyorker.com/
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin - https://bit.ly/3uWDvEp
Moleskin - https://www.moleskine.com
LA Freeway by Guy Clark - • L.A. Freeway, Guy Clark
Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen - https://brucespringsteen.net/albums/n...
Sleeping by the Mississippi by Alec Soth -
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