Bob Dylan started out as a young Woody Guthrie imitator and kept reinventing himself. His line "All I can do is be me, whoever that is" gets us onto the interests people hide because they don't seem to fit, like the pro wrestling one of us grew up on. Then someone we know writes to say they've been feeling stuck, and most of the episode is our answer. Film school taught one of us to treat screenwriting as a job, so he wrote at least 5 pages on every day he wasn't on a paid gig, inspired or not. It's the discipline of the apprentices in Jiro Dreams of Sushi, who spend years on the rice before they're allowed to touch the fish.
The other half of the answer is a framework. One of us makes every video on his photography channel to the same recipe, 6 video clips and 10 photos, so only the camera and the place change. Our rule is a routine you could keep on your worst day. At the College World Series, in awful light on a 92-degree day, one of us shot anyway, and watching a small moment unfold with a little boy made the trip worth it. We end on a Dylan song one of us has carried since he was 13, about being sure of your song before you sing it, which makes him wary of putting work out.
Mentioned in this episode: Bob Dylan, Walt Whitman, Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 2, Steven Pressfield's The War of Art, Stephen King's On Writing, David Gelb's Jiro Dreams of Sushi, George Lucas, Anthony Bourdain, Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, Akira Kurosawa.
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