Jordan Mechner didn’t know he’d be a beloved artist when he started writing the journal that he’d end up publishing. Brian Eno, on the other hand, already was when he started writing his. It made me think that I’d find fewer examples of “normal life stuff” in his journal from 1995—but it turns out that humans are, you know, human (most of the time).
I opened the book to a random page today, and the entry that caught my eye captured in so few words both the realities of being a human in the world and the hint of a mindset that helps you to… well… do the stuff that Brian Eno had done by then (and the things he’d do after).
Beautiful day after bad night. Anthea also ill. Irial can’t keep anything down. To chemist early for tummy things. Made drawings for Self-Storage pieces. Suddenly I have millions of ideas.