Thursday, September 17, 2009

I want to be more like John Waters


I already linked to this article once, back when I though it was hilarious that John Waters used Crème de la Mer(de). But here's what really stuck with me:

Waters is unusually regimented. He wakes up at exactly 6:10 every morning and reads newspapers and drinks tea until 8. He starts writing “right at eight o’clock—not 8:01, not 7:59,” and works until lunchtime. Waters is rigidly devoted to these morning sessions, and his hired wife plans his travel accordingly. He will go somewhere a day early or stay a day late rather than fly in the morning, even if it means staying at an airport hotel, “because I need to write five days a week,” he says firmly. “As far as I can remember I have done that, at least for 25 years. I most never miss a day."

I've been making excuses, but it's time to develop a regime. (I.E. lay off Twitter in the morning?!)

(Photo by Nan Goldin for New York Magazine)

9 comments:

  1. Gotta love Waters. He's a pip, and a wonderfully wacky aesthetic mind.

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  2. Dear John Waters,
    I love your scary ass baby doll. A bunch.
    Love,
    Me

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  3. do you know about "A John Waters Christmas"? amazing, crazy, weird, ridiculous christmas music comp he curates with songs like "here comes fatty clause" & "santa clause is a black man" anyway, there is an amazing interview with him by terry gross (my personal hero!) here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4227277 great great listen. not to distract you from your twittering er, um, i mean writing!

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  4. i really want a regimented schedule but just can't get there. anyone out there have advice?

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  5. Ahaha my supervisor had the exact same advice for me--write in the morning, do other stuff in the afternoon. It is a good routine if you can get into it.

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  6. okay, but what's this 'morning' business? john waters, you use foreign numbers.

    wrapping herself in her cape and skulking away,
    lauren.

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  7. If I hired a husband maybe someone would actually do the dishes around here.

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  8. no no no.
    regimen removes the romance from the artistic process.

    or something.

    it's what i decide every time i don't feel like painting.

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