![]() Almost every night at dusk I see a great horned owl cross the parade grounds, and each time it feels like a holy visitation. One of the things I’ve loved the most about my time in residence here at Headlands is getting to live alongside so many glorious critters. You’ll notice this bag says “Share Size,” but I am definitely not sharing.Ī field guide to western birds. I figured that if it worked for Prince, it might work for me. I did a story for The New Yorker a few years ago on Prince and Paisley Park, and one thing Prince did compulsively was to hoard hotel stationary-he’d write lyrics, notes, ideas, etc. Hotel stationary from The Standard in Hollywood. Brian Eno and Underworlds Karl Hyde Pursue Oblique Strategies on High Life and Someday World. My favorite is “Courage!” although the most useful has probably been “Accept advice.” ![]() I like to pull one in the morning when I first get to my studio. Each card has a “worthwhile dilemma” printed on it, and they’re designed to help ease or advance the creative process. The little white cards are from Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies, which they first released in 1975. ![]() ![]() The Los Angeles County Museum of Art stickers are left over from a trip he and I took there last month, to see an exhibit by the sound artist Christian Marclay. While at Headlands, I’ve been working on a profile of Beck for The New Yorker, so I’ve got a little pile of Beck-related literature, including a book by his grandfather, Al Hansen (who was a founding member of interdisciplinary arts movement Fluxus), an old catalog from a gallery show Beck did at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in 1998, and a copy of Song Reader, a boxed set of original sheet music he released in 2012. ![]()
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