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Old notes to myself
Today’s newsletter is about this recently-rediscovered list of notes to myself I wrote in 2014:
11. “If you don’t go to work, you never leave work.”
Wise words from my brilliant editor, Meghan Kleon.12. Death + deadlines.
The little deadlines keep you fed and the big deadline keeps you pushing towards finding meaningful work.
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Timequake
In today’s newsletter I wrote:
The best thing I read this week was Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake. Why did it take me so long to read the last novel by one of my very favorite writers? For some reason I had assumed it was “minor” Vonnegut, but even “minor” Vonnegut is major to me. Timequake is about everyone in the world coming back to life after a big traumatic event — sound familiar? — but it’s also Vonnegut trying to fit his moral worldview and how he thinks we should live into one last book. The ending, set under the stars at a clambake, is particularly beautiful. Ting-a-ling.
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Another dispatch from Arrakis
Today’s list of 10 newsletter begins:
My primary adventure this week has been going through a stack of 45RPM singlesthat someone in my neighborhood left out in the Texas heat. Remarkably, a few survived. (Here’s a Spotify playlist.) One of my favorite surviving 45s was Pete Drake’s “Forever.” I’d never heard of him, but he played pedal steel on a ton of records. (My favorite is probably Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding.) He also played steel on George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, and during a break in recording, he showed another studio musician named Peter Frampton his device that makes a guitar sound like it’s talking.
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Greetings from Arrakis
An alternate title for today’s newsletter was “Greetings from Arrakis.” Texas in August much resembles the feelings of the inhabitants in Dune and the collages at the top were made while listening to the audiobook.
Item #2:
“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” I picked up Frank Herbert’s Dune this week and it’s basically the perfect novel for August in Texas. I’m reading the paperback in the pool and listening to the lushly produced audiobook on walks and in the studio.
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