Loved this, love eating the same food, love a good burger or milkshake or coffee, love sugar. What more can I say? It all resonates and now I’m ready for my own diner visit. Thanks for the article, it’s always nice to be reminded of the need to not have specific answers for one’s art, or to choose not to share everything in these oversharing times.
I bought a two-for-one subscription to Masterclass with my daughter the first year of the pandemic, and one of the classes I did was David Lynch's "Creativity and Film". I rolled my eyes a lot initially, because his advice (if you could call it that) came across as patently simplistic and unhelpful. But I kept watching and I fell in love with him, and his class became one of my favourites. Bottom line is basically what you've said in your post: If you make something in anticipation of what you think the audience will like, you're lost.
Interesting article, I've spent many years avoiding sugar! it's one of those manmade pushed things that, I believe, does us all absolutely no good at all in my opinion! Once you get past it, aging, slimming, addictions, are things of the past I've read sugar is more addictive than heroin, not that I'd ever want to try that theory! Just my opinions. Creativity, I have no brain fog around ever with my songwriting! It's more the 'daily' or not lol, admin fog that creeps up in how to get your creativity out there! as an indie artist too far gone to ever want to prostitute being creative!
I know so many people have cut out sugar and feel better for it, so it felt somewhat subversive to "recommend" it via Lynch's example. (See also Louise Bourgeois's morning spoonful of orange marmalade: https://masoncurrey.substack.com/p/louise-bourgeois-daily-routine)
And I hear you re: admin fog! Or maybe that's just overwhelm—we all have so many jobs, between trying to make things *and* trying promote them, etc. etc.
It's been days since I read this latest issue but keep thinking about David Lynch and his daily milkshake routine. I also eat the same thing everyday, and for the same reasons as Mr. Lynch. But it's not a delicious chocolate milkshake and five cups of coffee (a dream meal!). It's like, chicken and vegetables. I am so jealous!!!
I should have mentioned that the reason Lynch stopped with the milkshake routine is because he saw the ingredients label for the milkshake mix they used in the Bob’s Big Boy machine and was so horrified by all the fake stuff that he decided he better stop! Subsequently, his meals have been a lot more prosaic—like, I think he ate a tuna sandwich for lunch for a really long time. So you’re in good company!
I’m pretty routine too-takes the guesswork out and frees time and space. But. What about a coffee date with a new friend? Or a walk at uncommon hour in which you meet new people and discover the way the light looks at twilight and how it provides the perfect backdrop for the black branches and twigs silhouetted for a winter scene in chapter two and now you can enable the reader to feel the coldness and describe it perfectly? I feel I will stick to some morning routines but I think there is a formula-perhaps relative to each person- in which a lack of serendipity becomes a limiting factor in creativity
Thank you Mason. You make me think. And I think my routines may make me isolated from enjoying more beauty in this world. I feel I don’t want to be like DL. I want to feel MORE and experience MORE -not the same routine
Yeah, this is 100% me too — I crave routine and feel cranky when mine gets upended . . . but then occasionally I do something spontaneous and it feels *so* good and restorative and I wonder why I don't let myself play hooky more often.
I loved Bob’s Big Boy when I was growing up in SoCal, so it was so cool to read that David Lynch went there every afternoon for seven years to drink chocolate milkshakes and many sugary coffees!! Wow. Reading this made me laugh so much…and it also made me want to establish my own delicious daily routine.
Yes! I've been to the Bob's Big Boy in Burbank—the only one still open?—but I think I read that Lynch went to a location on Wilshire near Highland (now a Beverly Hills BMW 🤦🏻♂️ ) At least Norms and Canter's and Du-Pars are still around . . .
I've always thought of David Lynch as a director of a species different from most. Creativity with creepiness. Thanks for this information on his OCD routines. Mason, I know your father from college and I think I hear some of his voice in your writing.
Loved this, love eating the same food, love a good burger or milkshake or coffee, love sugar. What more can I say? It all resonates and now I’m ready for my own diner visit. Thanks for the article, it’s always nice to be reminded of the need to not have specific answers for one’s art, or to choose not to share everything in these oversharing times.
Yes, yes, yes! I like the idea of having ideas but not answers (answers are boring anyway)
I bought a two-for-one subscription to Masterclass with my daughter the first year of the pandemic, and one of the classes I did was David Lynch's "Creativity and Film". I rolled my eyes a lot initially, because his advice (if you could call it that) came across as patently simplistic and unhelpful. But I kept watching and I fell in love with him, and his class became one of my favourites. Bottom line is basically what you've said in your post: If you make something in anticipation of what you think the audience will like, you're lost.
Interesting about the Masterclass! I didn't realize he had taught one.
Interesting article, I've spent many years avoiding sugar! it's one of those manmade pushed things that, I believe, does us all absolutely no good at all in my opinion! Once you get past it, aging, slimming, addictions, are things of the past I've read sugar is more addictive than heroin, not that I'd ever want to try that theory! Just my opinions. Creativity, I have no brain fog around ever with my songwriting! It's more the 'daily' or not lol, admin fog that creeps up in how to get your creativity out there! as an indie artist too far gone to ever want to prostitute being creative!
I know so many people have cut out sugar and feel better for it, so it felt somewhat subversive to "recommend" it via Lynch's example. (See also Louise Bourgeois's morning spoonful of orange marmalade: https://masoncurrey.substack.com/p/louise-bourgeois-daily-routine)
And I hear you re: admin fog! Or maybe that's just overwhelm—we all have so many jobs, between trying to make things *and* trying promote them, etc. etc.
It's been days since I read this latest issue but keep thinking about David Lynch and his daily milkshake routine. I also eat the same thing everyday, and for the same reasons as Mr. Lynch. But it's not a delicious chocolate milkshake and five cups of coffee (a dream meal!). It's like, chicken and vegetables. I am so jealous!!!
I should have mentioned that the reason Lynch stopped with the milkshake routine is because he saw the ingredients label for the milkshake mix they used in the Bob’s Big Boy machine and was so horrified by all the fake stuff that he decided he better stop! Subsequently, his meals have been a lot more prosaic—like, I think he ate a tuna sandwich for lunch for a really long time. So you’re in good company!
I’m pretty routine too-takes the guesswork out and frees time and space. But. What about a coffee date with a new friend? Or a walk at uncommon hour in which you meet new people and discover the way the light looks at twilight and how it provides the perfect backdrop for the black branches and twigs silhouetted for a winter scene in chapter two and now you can enable the reader to feel the coldness and describe it perfectly? I feel I will stick to some morning routines but I think there is a formula-perhaps relative to each person- in which a lack of serendipity becomes a limiting factor in creativity
Thank you Mason. You make me think. And I think my routines may make me isolated from enjoying more beauty in this world. I feel I don’t want to be like DL. I want to feel MORE and experience MORE -not the same routine
Yeah, this is 100% me too — I crave routine and feel cranky when mine gets upended . . . but then occasionally I do something spontaneous and it feels *so* good and restorative and I wonder why I don't let myself play hooky more often.
I loved Bob’s Big Boy when I was growing up in SoCal, so it was so cool to read that David Lynch went there every afternoon for seven years to drink chocolate milkshakes and many sugary coffees!! Wow. Reading this made me laugh so much…and it also made me want to establish my own delicious daily routine.
Yes! I've been to the Bob's Big Boy in Burbank—the only one still open?—but I think I read that Lynch went to a location on Wilshire near Highland (now a Beverly Hills BMW 🤦🏻♂️ ) At least Norms and Canter's and Du-Pars are still around . . .
I've always thought of David Lynch as a director of a species different from most. Creativity with creepiness. Thanks for this information on his OCD routines. Mason, I know your father from college and I think I hear some of his voice in your writing.
Thanks for the note, I recognize your name from my dad — hope you're well!