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Phoebe Bridgers
Speaking of: There was a Spotify billboard in L.A. featuring you that had a tagline about hitting the road with a guitar — what’d it say? “Hitting the road with six strings and a U.T.I.”
Right. It made me wonder, if that line got approved, what got rejected? They all came from my tweets. But there was one that was, “I was sexually active before I stopped wetting the bed.” Which, if you flip it, sounds like I was assaulted when I was a kid. But the truth is that the last time I wet the bed I was like 20. It runs in my family. What I loved is that the person I was dating at the time — I did it, and I thought, Are you kidding me? I woke them up and was like, “I’mreally sorry but I totally wet the bed.” And they were like: “I’m tired. I’m going to just scoot over.” Then I never did it again. It was like a magical fairy-tale solution. All I needed was acceptance and someone who didn’t give a [expletive]and the problem was solved. You look back at what you obsessed about when you were younger, the stuff that made you go, “I would evaporate if anybody ever knew,” and then you turn into an adult and realize no one cares. Your world is biggest to you. Which is good to remember.
6 tips
Mike Birbiglia’s 6 Tips for Making It Small in Hollywood. Or Anywhere
“One thing you have to offer in your work is yourself.” I disagree. I think it’s the only thing.”.
David Fincher’s Impossible Eye
Another close friend is the filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, who told me about visiting Fincher during postproduction on his 2002 thriller, “Panic Room.” Soderbergh described the scene this way: “David had a laser pointer out, and he was circling this one section of a wall in the upper part of the frame, saying, ‘That’s a quarter of a stop too bright.’ I had to leave the room. I had to go outside and take some deep breaths, because I thought, Oh, my God — to see like that? All the time? Everywhere? I wouldn’t be able to do it.”
Jonah Hill on taste
You know what, the one thing in common with all of it is? Taste. If you like my acting, you like my taste. If you like my directing, you like my taste. And if you like how I dress, you like my taste.
So I might fail. But clearly the curation of this stuff is the through-line, right? So if you can curate a movie and all the music and shots and actors and clothes and everything, and you curate how you dress and people write about it? You could probably create and curate your own stuff.
Copying is the way design works
Good article on the idea of copying in creativity. Especially the bit about Van Gogh copying Japanese artists.
Green Jackets
With the exception of the reigning champion’s blazer, which can go home with a winner until he returns it for safekeeping the next year, no jackets are permitted to leave the club’s grounds, at least according to Augusta National’s lore.
That has cultivated a widespread belief that almost all of those tailored symbols of golf history — presented annually to winners since 1949 and so renowned that a club official once publicly compared their status to the Statue of Liberty — are confined to several hundred cloistered acres of east Georgia.
I first learned about green jackets in golf from Happy Gilmore. But traditions like these always interest to me.
Augusta’s Green Jackets: For Winners, Members (and Buyers) Only