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Thursday 11 November 2010

I WILL DO SOME OF THESE

Bernadette Mayer's List of Journal Ideas:
Journals of: 
* dreams 
* food 
* finances 
* writing ideas 
* love 
* ideas for architects
* city design ideas
* beautiful and/or ugly sights
* a history of one's own writing life, written daily
* reading/music/art, etc. encountered each day
* rooms 
* elaborations on weather
* people one sees-description
* subway, bus, car or other trips (e.g., the same bus trip written about
every day) 
* pleasures and/or pain
* life's everyday machinery: phones, stoves, computers, etc.
* answering machine messages
* round or rectangular things, other shapes
* color 
* light 
* daily changes, e.g., a journal of one's desk, table, etc.
* the body and its parts
* clocks/time-keeping
* tenant-landlord situations
* telephone calls (taped?)
* skies 
* dangers 
* mail 
* sounds 
* coincidences & connections
* times of solitude
 
Other journal ideas:
* Write once a day in minute detail about one thing
* Write every day at the same time, e.g. lunch poems, waking ideas, etc.
* Write minimally: one line or sentence per day
* Create a collaborative journal: musical notation and poetry; two writers
alternating days; two writing about the same subject each day, etc.
* Instead of using a book, write on paper and put it up on the wall (public
journal). 
* and so on .. 

I like the idea of putting a piece of paper on a wall and doing a public journal asking one question,
If the Journal we have to do everyday is  so much part of our lives on our course,
maybe get the whole course involved in it. 
So today I have been working on music for the band, shall put films and photos of rehearsing up soon
It will take a while, but I'm really happy with it. All interweaving parts for different instruments,
were sampling and looping, and meeting a drummer, and will be awesome I'm sure.
I have been working on films, writing all sorts, and you won't read all of it, as some of its personal, 
but what I do is a to do list and try and stick to it, doing a new project each week, 
which is connected to the last, then combining them together.
Edwyn is a Werewolf is a project were I find posters or images and change the text, to pretend that the Character 
Portrayed is Edwyn or has been.
 
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