I will tear down my wallpaper tomorrow. All of it.
Quote of the day: “Cobbler is cake. If there’s no crust on the bottom then it can’t be pie.”
(from the film Carnage, screenplay by Yasmina Reza and Roman Polanski)
Mercredi: Immersed Tomorrow
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Dimanche: Out
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
I need a few calm hours in calm corners of the city. The weather is shit.
But the food is good and the area rocks and the music is lovely.
Zitat des Tages: “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” MLK, Jr.
Mardi: Silence Please
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
“Manchmal schwelgen Leute in der ‘guten alten Zeit’, ich sage dann: Fuck you, wen kümmert das Gestern?” -KL
Dimanche: Up To Date
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
An update on my New Year’s Resolutions thingy, that’s got next to nothing to do with resolutions.
I feel that as it’s still early in the year, this is a legitimate change.
Things I want to do in 2012.
• see a play at The Old Vic theatre
• read twelve novels (at least two of them in French)
• work for a minimum of 1500 hours
• shop at River Island in Wrocław
• really start pre-production on the ST project
• take meditation serious again and use it
• more structure and discipline
• sleep in a tent
• blog every Wednesday (cheating allowed)
• expose and develop fifty rolls of film (120 or 135) prior to August 1st.
+ a few things I’ll keep private
Today I finally managed to take a long long walk again. I love to do that, except when it’s raining or looks like it could start to rain any minute. Snow is supposed to start coming in on Monday, so I felt today was kind of the last chance to do this for a while.
While I did manage to bring along a camera (which I actually like to do always, but tend to forget or ignore), I did not manage to bring a real one. Instead, I took the digital Leica and didn’t shoot a fucking thing. I got to get started on those fifty rolls. Especially since some of them are 120 Velvia 50s that have just expired and that would simply be a waste.
I’m also going to develop some rolls from last year very soon and probably scan some of that stuff, so look forward to that.
And I’m planning a big journey for 2013/14. Depending on my work situation then. 14 would certainly work, but maybe 13 is a possibility. It’s surprising, even to me, how much I enjoy travel planning. Although I don’t think I really have talent for that kind of thing. Would be hard for me to plan for someone else, people are just so strange and so hard to understand.
Also, I started to decorate my room a bit. Going to rip the wallpaper off one of the walls as soon as I have good ideas for it. That’ll be fun.
Mercredi: Back to What’s it About
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
And in the meantime, we shall be covered with inspiration, beauty and snow.
Quote of the day: “Was ich sage ist nur gültig, wenn ich es gerade gesagt habe […]” (K.L.)
Vendredi: Certainty…
Friday, January 6th, 2012
It’s surprisingly hard for me to decide things to that degree. To make them certain. At least as certain as it gets with me. Let me tell you, it feels a hundred times more certain than my Marseille idea from last year. And it’s just as much fun to think about. And if I see it through – and I will give it my best shot – I will be sending out résumées to NYC and Chicago and Washington and Philly and maybe Memphis, or Hartford or Toronto, by the middle of 2014, and leaving for one of those places by the end of the same year.
And that’s why it’s all worth it.
Quote(s) of the day:
On ne peut pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre.
[engl. You can't have the butter and the money for the butter.] (French saying)
You cannot have the bottle full and the girl drunk. (supposedly an Argentinian saying)
Mercredi: Wasn’t That Door Closed?
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Had a great first two days at my new job in a hotel kitchen. When I came home I felt the urge to throw my computer out the window. It’s now sitting in a corner of the room instead. Only using it to listen to music now, and the laptop is for everything else (which isn’t a lot.)
It All Arrived
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
New plan: Make a road trip around the US 2014-2015.
New plan: Write a book before leaving for that.
New plan: Check off every single thing on the “Things I want to do in 2012″ list.
New plan: Reward myself for that. Greatly.
New plan: Punish myself if not sticking to these plans.
Zitat des Tages: Die ganze Welt muss einem egal sein. Dann schläft man sehr gut.
Listening to: Summer Camp – Around the Moon
Eating: fish with broccoli and tomato sauce
Drinking: rosé wine
Reading: Hemingway – A Moveable Feast, Bourdain – Kitchen Confidential, Kehlmann – Ich und Kaminski
