vivica by katharine eastman
oh I do know but it's just that when I'm out life is too wonderful for me to want to stop off and take photos and that is why my covers are a bit blah lately, so this one of a gap in a hedge will have to do, probably taken while I was having a pee - no probably not, that is a bit weird even for me. But I do need to try harder with things like that. I need to remember that in this career the things that shouldn't really be important (covers, titles, getting in with the right people) are far more important than the actual music that you make. No I am not totally blaming my lazy covers or my grumpy dislike of my fellow musicians for the failure of my musical career. Just a bit.
On more interesting matters, so far this year I have read books by (yes I keep a note) = Robert Mitchell, Stephan Zweig, John Lewis-Sempel, Bruce Perry, Roger Deakin, Yukio Mishima, Richard Skelton, Jacqueline Crookes, Anne Bronte, Seicho Matsumoto, Penelope Fitzgerald, Hollie Mcnish, John Cowper Powys, Bruce Stratford, Patricia Highsmith, Alan Watts, Pankaj Mishra, Marjam Tuominen, David Sedaris, Joyce Carol Oates, others too no doubt.
That might sound like quite a lot - more than one a week - and considering that I also sleep a lot more than average, spend several whole days per week wandering about, make a bit of music, socialise, drink quite a lot, go to the cinema to see EVERYTHING, watch films on DVD at home .... yes even I am almost impressed. Except that I am lucky - I am now at the age where life feels so finite that I don't waste time on books I'm not enjoying.
I lied a bit because when I said I'd read those books I really meant that I'd started to read those books. I only got to the end of three books so far this year - ones by Stefan Zweig, Hollie Mcnish and Pankaj Mishra. It is such a glorious feeling to be tossing away so many books at such a good rate. I wish I'd started this habit when I was young. Almost everything is rubbish. Yes I nearly said the obvious thing there - but I will let us both just think it. I've not acquired any more digital music. That is the best thing of all. I wish I'd never started. Everything - it's all just about nothing.
