What Do You Write in that Little Notebook?
Adam here. I finished a notebook today. (A Field Notes Trailhead. The best.) It took about six weeks to fill it up, which is typical for me. I wish I could fill one per month (because … so many notebooks) but it always takes about six weeks. As you get to the end of a 6-week notebook, sometimes it feels especially full of life because you’re in a different place (definitely a different month) than when you started it.
Here are a few of the things I wrote about:
Bleak future ambiance
Dave Eggers on Maurice Sendak has me even more obsessed with accessing my subconscious than I already was.
David Lynch listened to Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 while writing Blue Velvet.
Got Covid
Humans shed genetic information everywhere they go. Can’t beat that Economist headline, I thought. Then I saw their header: The DNA Dragnet.
The Wager had me noting the definitions of teredo navalis, bastard-getters, and threadworn beaux jack-a-dandies, among other 18th century terms
Books read: Country and Midwestern, Kappa, Monsters.
Movies watched: Air, A League of Their Own, Arrival, Asteroid Kingdom, The Chicken Run, Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Inside Llewyn Davis, Mean Girls, Moonrise Kingdom, The Princess Bride, and Spider-Man: Inside the Spider-Verse.
Ryan Slie joined us for Take Note 180 to discuss our stationery summer. We’ll discuss Asteroid City in one of the next few episodes.