"You're full of shit," He told me.
"Here's why:
reading books and starting some sort of quest about how to be self-disciplined is just another excuse and another way to be undisciplined."
He went on:
"Self-discipline lies in the action itself.
When you force yourself to write or produce art, you will then start a cycle that will make you produce more writings and art.
There is nothing else to prepare for. You are at a point where you simply must do."
Something about going bald must make one wise, I thought.
These were good points he was bringing up.
I thought of this story that the poet Charles Bukowski once told. He was at the cocktail party and some lady was telling him that once she and her husband moved into their new house she would set up a writing studio in the spare room. She'd get herself a little desk and a typewriter and then, finally then, she could really get serious about her writing.
I can't come close to doing justice to Bukowski's response, but in a nutshell, he told her that she would never write. That if she wasn't writing now she never would be.
I thought of this and made a commitment. I need to change. I need to just do.
So with the exhortation of my bald wise friend that was mentioned above, tomorrow will start a month long fast of almost every kind of media.
No TV, no movies, no books, no news, no links or youtube videos.
All I will really have is music and the empty page.
I hope something comes from it. It is well past the time for action.
Now, I just need to decide what movie will be the last one that I watch for a month.
7:02 p.m. - 2012-11-05
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