Your life verse reminds me of one I adopted when I quit my agency job to freelance. “If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” I love that you told that dude the cold hard truth (especially as a fellow designer!!) My standard life verse fora couple decades has been, “Life ain’t as sweet without the sour.” (Which I lifted from Vanilla Sky.) And hopefully, with all the years of good times mixed with bad, could be adopted by yourself as well. Hopefully.
That video was incredible!! I was too young to see the Zoo TV tour but in my next life, it’s on. The closest I got was the Pop Mart stadium tour (where they ran out of big inflatable lemons and I was crushed.) Zooropa is one of the most underrated albums in existence.
It's interesting how a phrase can come from a T-shirt or a movie and turn into something deeply resonant for you while it slides by the rest of world.
I had both the money and the opportunity to see the Pop Mart tour in Phoenix. I didn't go. It's one of my biggest regrets. I love Zooropa – listening to it as I type. I love the fact that they recorded it because Ali told Bono not to come straight home after the Zoo TV tour because he was horrible to be around in the come-down after being on the road. So they went to the studio.
Yes!! Thanks Ali 😂 The extension and metamorphosis from Achtung Baby is sonically perfect. And for all the Pop bashing that happened way back when, you listen to it now and realize the world just wasn’t ready.
Yes, of course we love hearing your life story. It's so interesting. As I mentioned before my life between the ages of about 7 and 33 revolved around the world of Girl Guiding. Its ethos resonated with me. Girl Guides have 10 laws that they live by - or at least they did then, and the one that I live to live my life by is: A Guide makes good use of her time.
I have more rest days now than I used to, but I feel that if my body needs rest in order to be more productive at other times, then a rest day IS making good use of my time, rather than continuing and ending up doing something of lower quality.
I'm hearing the protestant work ethic there. Resting is self-evidently essential for living well. It's a sign of the hard-driving culture we come from that we feel the need to explain the importance of rest. We shouldn't need the message that resting is a good use of time. But we do. I'm glad you're getting more rest. Keep it up!
Your life verse reminds me of one I adopted when I quit my agency job to freelance. “If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” I love that you told that dude the cold hard truth (especially as a fellow designer!!) My standard life verse fora couple decades has been, “Life ain’t as sweet without the sour.” (Which I lifted from Vanilla Sky.) And hopefully, with all the years of good times mixed with bad, could be adopted by yourself as well. Hopefully.
That video was incredible!! I was too young to see the Zoo TV tour but in my next life, it’s on. The closest I got was the Pop Mart stadium tour (where they ran out of big inflatable lemons and I was crushed.) Zooropa is one of the most underrated albums in existence.
It's interesting how a phrase can come from a T-shirt or a movie and turn into something deeply resonant for you while it slides by the rest of world.
I had both the money and the opportunity to see the Pop Mart tour in Phoenix. I didn't go. It's one of my biggest regrets. I love Zooropa – listening to it as I type. I love the fact that they recorded it because Ali told Bono not to come straight home after the Zoo TV tour because he was horrible to be around in the come-down after being on the road. So they went to the studio.
Yes!! Thanks Ali 😂 The extension and metamorphosis from Achtung Baby is sonically perfect. And for all the Pop bashing that happened way back when, you listen to it now and realize the world just wasn’t ready.
Yes, of course we love hearing your life story. It's so interesting. As I mentioned before my life between the ages of about 7 and 33 revolved around the world of Girl Guiding. Its ethos resonated with me. Girl Guides have 10 laws that they live by - or at least they did then, and the one that I live to live my life by is: A Guide makes good use of her time.
I have more rest days now than I used to, but I feel that if my body needs rest in order to be more productive at other times, then a rest day IS making good use of my time, rather than continuing and ending up doing something of lower quality.
I'm hearing the protestant work ethic there. Resting is self-evidently essential for living well. It's a sign of the hard-driving culture we come from that we feel the need to explain the importance of rest. We shouldn't need the message that resting is a good use of time. But we do. I'm glad you're getting more rest. Keep it up!