rules, random
Posted on September 7, 2007 by Tito
hearing Coltrane on the bus in KC
Okkervil River at The Independent in San Francisco playing the alternate version of Our Life Is Not A Movie, or Maybe that Conan O’Brien BANNED.
George Saunders talking Twain at maudnewton.com:
MN: You’re stranded on a desert island and for entertainment you’re allowed only twigs, stones, native birds and rodents, and books by Mark Twain. Do you choose his fiction, or his essays?
GS: Wow. I’d rather have a yacht stocked with food. But ok: actually, I’d take the fiction. Fiction keeps giving and giving. Especially his. Every time I read Huck Finn, it’s morphed into a different book, depending on who I am at the moment. So maybe it could be one of those large-print editions – I mean really large print, like each letter three feet high – made of balsa, and with a sail poking out of the cover.
Tim Kasher randomizes at the AV Club
AVC: Do you think that immediacy has a value, as opposed to writing something and then working on it over time?
TK: I think that immediacy can have a lot of value, but it isn’t always worth it. I believe in strong editing for music, and I think that some artists are better at it than others. That’s why you have writers who are more consistent than other writers. As far as immediacy is concerned, that’s really just good editing too, if you can recognize something right away, in its initial state.
