Thursday, January 06, 2005Fine!!! Here!!! Enjoy.
Though there are many things you shouldn't do, at least don't do the following:
1. Let a near-zero checking account balance and general lack of money prevent you from feeling anything but guilt and self-pity. Do not let it prevent you from reading, writing or generally enjoying life. Remember, you're going to die. You are going to die. You will die.
2. Only after experiencing number one and receiving a large check you weren't expecting soon after, let that check be the thing that reaffirms your usual belief that life truly is grand and not quite the terrible lot you thought it only a day previous. Surely you're better than that. It should be something more mysterious and lovely.
3. Convince yourself after drinking three cups of coffee that coffee is all you need to be productive. Do not say, "It's because I haven't had coffee lately that I've left all my interests to themselves to stay important and viable in my life".
4. Unsuccessfully disguise a personal post as an advice column.
5. With number four said—listen too intently to me.
posted by Samuel @ 4:41 PM
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12 Comments:
Before I got my current job, I had one cup of coffee in the morning.
In the last six months, I suddenly found myself drinking up to a cup of tea every half hour.
Two tea-bags in each cup!
I've cut back to three cups a day over the last two weeks.
Man, am I tired.
Are the three cups a day still 2 baggers?
I like tea, but feel like I don't get the caffeine. It's just a more mellow buzz? When I have three cups of coffee I feel like I'm on coke. I should switch.
awesome sam
i just finished a cup of coffee (snapping the ceramic handle off in the process). guess i was applying a bit of leverage. it's my first and probably only today, but i've definitely drunk more coffee in the last four months than i have in my entire life, excepting perhaps the weird coffee phase i got into when i was twelve (naw). my roommate thinks combining coffee with weed is wonderful, and he's right (i'm not high now), so the coffee flows around here and so does the urine. i don't usually get too jittery with coffee but then i rarely have more than two cups. caffeine, like other intoxicants, seems to affect me more minimally than others. it does tear a hole in my stomach though. and don't try to pour orange juice on it to fill the emptiness; the acidity will take you to vomit level -- eat something.
hemingway, it's funny the way lost money seems to turn around and come back at you (seems being the operative word). my roommate and i spoke of this the other day. probably any sudden apparent karmic loss draws out attention more intensely to any particular gain or chance for gain. i misplaced some cash the other day. but christmas cards are still coming in. but those christmas cards would be on the way hemingway. or would they?
Amazon's "search inside" function is fucking rad. I have a book with an interview of Brian Wilson. He said something about using caffeine, but I didn't want to read through the whole thing since I'm working. I typed in "caffeine" and "Brian Wilson" and it told me it was on page 127. FUCKING GREAT.
The beginning of the quote below is a little spacey for me, but I wanted to give you the context and Brian Wilson is spacey.
Anyway,
"Do you have any idea where your ideas come from?They come from...let me think...God. I guess.
How do you get in touch with that source? Does it take a while when you sit down at the piano to get it going?It does, it does.
Any advice for songwriters on how to best do it?Don't drink coffee. Because caffeine screws up your mind. Don't drink coffee for inspiration to write a song. Do it out of your own inspiration, and the song will come more naturally.
Caffeine screws with your creativity. A lot of people who are creative—like writers, scriptwriters—use coffee and amphetamines to be more alert and to try and see the bigger picture while they're doing it. And I don't agree with that philosophy at all. I say it should all be done on the natch."
Some one could write a book of interviews with artists about coffee and their use of it. Starbucks would eat that shit up and sell it at all their chains. The book's quality and worth may not be great, but its revenue would be.
post the idea at ideashare at believer.com or whatever
i think it'd be best as a kind of cultural study of the uses and significances (as a symbol and chemical etc) of caffeine (coffee et al), like the cigarettes book i had you read sam
hemingway, i've long thought intoxication (alcohol, caffeine trucks ambassador) is a good way to expand your ideas in preparation for making art (among research into reality) but was a poor method for actually being creative. maybe that's me just being too caught up in authenticity and identity thought...
trucks ambassador (sisqo)
guru is playing
What are you talking about "hemingway"?
One Niggardly post after another.
"Hemingway" instaed of 'anyway', douche.
Oh. Sorry fuckface.
Have to admit that I puzzled over the hemingway too. To me, it would make more "sense" if the hemingway was short for "In short," "Suffice it to say," "To make a long story short," or something along those lines--ya know, something that actually meant something hemingwayesque--but (much as I'm loath to admit it) the context suggests that the (sound-alike?) meaning of "anyway" is correct.
Since the above tells us that I'm operating on too few neurons or maybe not enough caffeine today, I also gotta admit I got a little lost on the main post a couple of times as to whether same was or was not suggesting this or that. Maybe just a double negative thing. Or, hemingway, maybe I just need more coffee.
hemingway was silly and in a bit of silliness i did it once and then decided i must do it again to see what comes of it. no one said anything for a while and that was that.
hemingway it does mean anyway, as in schermerhorn for furthermore, etc and nonsense... trucks ambassador was several kevin bacons from whatever, but then we realized there was a real trucks amabssador -- sisqo... et al
Jesus Christ Luke. Talk about knee-jerk reactions. Be a man and don't just clam up when your challenged or asked to defend yourself.
and by "your" of course I meant "you're".
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