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March
2001 Archive
Monday, March 26, 2001"What I want to say is, I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating. I don't care if it's a book, a film, a painting, a dance, a piece of theater, a piece of music, anybody -- anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us, I think this world would be unlivable without art, and I thank you. That includes the Academy, that includes my fellow nominees here tonight. Thank you for inspiring me. Thank you for this."-
Steven Soderbergh at the Academy Awards, accepting his Best Director
Oscar I'm
quite a moviehead, so despite the politics and cheeze of the Oscars
I love them. Usually I turn off the tv set a little saddened b/c
my tastes don't run towards the mainstream and the Oscars do.
Last night all my underdog (and not-so-underdog) favorites
won: Benicio
Del Toro, Stephen
Gaghan, Stephen
Mirrione And
despite popular opinion, or maybe just the snotty style commentators,
I thought Juliette Binoche was adorable. Ok.
Enough said. Back to work.
Tuesday, March 20, 2001My nose is nearly worn off from putting it to the grindstone.I'm
dizzy from keeping all those plates spinning. I
wish I could think of a third overworked cliché, but I'm
drawing a __________.
Thursday, March 15, 2001Well, I made an executive decision 2 days ago. I'm not doing any client work from 5/19-6/17. Client work has been fantastic, but the pendulum has been stuck on one side, and I'm not getting any personal work done. For my own sanity and growth, I'll be exclusively focusing on my own projects that month. Things like creating new work for this site, redesigning my portfolio, having great conversations with friends about their creative work, going to the International Design Conference in Aspen. Still lots of work, but wonderfully selfish work.I'm hoping to come out of it with more balance between the public and personal sides of my work, so I can be happier in both realms. Happily, I can't say I am unhappy yet, but preemptive action is good. Posted on 3/15/2001 11:05:02 AM
Monday, March 12, 2001OHMIFRIGGINGAWD. What a good day. Externally, the weather is drizzly, cold dreck. Internally, it's 68º and sunnnnny.+
I have a new accountant, Larry
Little. I had a great first meeting with him today
and my federal taxes (with 95% of the info in) is half of what
I had construed in my head to be. Not only was my first impression
with him great, but his office is in my neighborhood. I adore
Edgewater and am always happy to patronize local business.
Sunday, March 11, 2001Shoe heel glued back on, new shelf installed, blueberry Belgian waffle eaten. Not a bad Sunday thus far - but hours to go before I sleep. March is another hefty month of work, but it's a lot of work with broad, broad deadlines (vs. little incremental ones that get my butt in gear), so I have to work to keep motivated. I have to build in carrots like if I get A, B and C done tonight, I can go see a movie tomorrow. If I get "enough" done by Wednesday, I can go see my friend Shea get more work done on his tattoo. The big thing is to determine "enough" before I start, so the goals *mean* something.I
think my friends think I'm a Clydesdale of freelance work. I do
keep busier than the average bear, and I'm proud of what I accomplish,
but I can be lazy as sin every so often. This last illness was
especially bad, b/c the recovery was sooooo sloooooow I didn't
know when my official rest should end and I should get back to
working. This blurring is amplified when you work from home. I
don't have that built in barometer of "ugh, I feel like crap/OK,
I'm feeling better" that you get when you go outside into the
world. Or even getting dressed. If you spend all your time in
pajamas (as I do), you're bound to slip into invalidness.
Thursday, March 08, 2001Saw Pollock last night. I concur with my friend Rebbie who said, "Well, I didn't like Pollock's art before I saw the film. And now I don't like him as a person." Then we continued the discussion with phrases like "rat bastard." Despite personal feelings of old JP, the movie was goooood. Very well told. I'm trying to reconcile admiring Lee Krasner, while thinking she was an idiot for putting up with Pollock. I'm sure I have loads more to say on the movie, the Ab Ex'ers and my days as a complete Art Geek, but I don't have the time at the moment.Soon... I
look east and the snow is swirling upwards in this lovely, delicate
way. I look north, and it's blowing entirely horizontally from
the west wind. Gotta love 90º changes in perspective.
Tuesday, March 06, 2001A complete 180º from yesterday, due to a great client meeting, a completed To Do List, and a fruitful trip to the library. Nothing like being surrounded by 1,949,380 books to inspire.Posted on 3/6/2001 08:09:21 PM
Monday, March 05, 2001Normally, I would say I was off my game. For the last couple weeks, I haven't even been on the playing field. I've been completely caught up in my head.At
the moment, I'm listening to The Cars. As much as I enjoy them,
I think I'm living too far into my head to be listening to them.
I was ALL OVER the Cars when I was 10 and that was my worst year.
I was an amicable, creative kid in general. Year 10, I was a sarcastic
frickin snot. OK
Now I'm listening to William Orbit. Definitely not age 10. Better.
I
usually don't go for the therapyblog. But it's good trying to
figure out the strange state of things. The crux of the matter
is that I haven't been in the Now much the last week or so. Given,
Vegas had a lot of good moments, and I was on when I was working
in Atlanta. But in between all that, I've been running circular
arguments in my head. Damage control for situations that haven't
happened. I'm undermining myself. I'm having epic, superfuckedup
dreams. The kind of dreams that make me think I should be writing
screenplays. And I'm berating myself for my unrealized projects,
regardless of my working my ass off on other good projects. Work
is good. Personal life is good. Can't complain, really. Maybe
getting back in the library tomorrow'll be the antidote I need...
Sunday, March 04, 2001I finally checked out the Hollywood Stock Exchange. You get 2M of fake money to invest in movies, actors or options like who'll win the Oscar for Best Director. It's a great diversion, replete with a stock ticker you can watch. Already, I have learned 1) It will make me crazy 2) I should never invested in real stocks. It's not the kind of risks and unknowns I have any ability to handle. For instance, why the hell is my Benicio Del Toro stock -7? I'll never know. And this is Day 2. Heaven help me.Posted on 3/4/2001 12:32:04 PM
Saturday, March 03, 2001I went outside. It's a beautiful sunny pre-Spring day. But it smells like fish. Considering I live a block off Lake Michigan, I should be surprised how rarely it *does* smell like fish. Usually it smells like BBQ from the hole-in-the-wall BBQ place across the street. And no one can complain about the smell of BBQ.Posted on 3/3/2001 12:55:45 PM Aaahhhhh...It's
Peeps season again. No
better drug than Coca-Cola and Peeps. And
I wonder why I've been chronically sick this winter.
Friday, March 02, 2001Being sick sucks.Posted on 3/2/2001 09:09:00 PM Smells
that remind me of my dad: Spraypaint, garages, beer.
Thursday, March 01, 2001The state of things at the moment:- laryngitis + did good work in Atlanta - not knowing whether to rest or work, because I can't get sickER, but I also can't get behind - coming back to my hotel room at night and my Visor not working AT ALL - the mystery of my Visor crashing + watching Benicio Del Toro movies as much as I WANT. + Shea got the first work on his tattoo I designed. It looks fan-fuckin-tastic. - The right heel of my badass Bedford Stu shoes fell off. - feeling overwhelmed. Posted on 3/1/2001 03:02:52 PM |
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