"Every day was just an absolute nightmare. I didn't have anything to do. Being an early riser meant my day was done and dusted by nine o'clock in the morning. There's only so much guitar you can play, so much shit TV you can watch. You end up just going to the pub. Boredom will kill you, man."
Liam Gallagher as interviewed by Cian Traynor for Huck magazine
Showing posts with label what do people do all day?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label what do people do all day?. Show all posts
Sunday, 17 September 2017
Sunday, 28 May 2017
What do people do all day? #2
“Rather than make friends, then go off down to the soda fountain or go to where the kids would hang out, I would just go home and write my scripts and cut my films. I was pretty much isolated, but I had a hobby that I was obsessed by. I would come home from school and I would not go to friends’ houses to play. I would go to my bedroom and I would sit with my little editing machine.”
Steven Spielberg as interviewed by Tom Shone for the Guardian
Steven Spielberg as interviewed by Tom Shone for the Guardian
Sunday, 5 March 2017
On experience
"“You want to make something real, you have to experience something, not just something you’ve read or you’ve listened to… something that is you.”"
Musician Pan Daijing as interviewed by Aurora Mitchell for The Quietus.
"It is no longer rare to meet adults who have never swum except in a swimming pool, never slept except in a building, never run a mile or climbed a mountain, never been stung by a bee or a wasp, never broken a bone or needed stitches. Without a visceral knowledge of what it is to be hurt and healed, exhausted and resolute, freezing and ecstatic, we lose our reference points. We are separated from the world by a layer of glass. Climate change, distant wars, the erosion of democracy, resurgent fascism – in our temperature-controlled enclosures, all can be reduced to abstractions."
George Monbiot in the Guardian
Musician Pan Daijing as interviewed by Aurora Mitchell for The Quietus.
"It is no longer rare to meet adults who have never swum except in a swimming pool, never slept except in a building, never run a mile or climbed a mountain, never been stung by a bee or a wasp, never broken a bone or needed stitches. Without a visceral knowledge of what it is to be hurt and healed, exhausted and resolute, freezing and ecstatic, we lose our reference points. We are separated from the world by a layer of glass. Climate change, distant wars, the erosion of democracy, resurgent fascism – in our temperature-controlled enclosures, all can be reduced to abstractions."
George Monbiot in the Guardian
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
What do people do all day? #1
Some insights from the Lunch with the FT collection of interviews:
Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon, interviewed by Andrew Davidson:
His working hours? "I do 60 a week, any less I get bored, any more, tired. I mean, what do people do who do less? How do they fill the time?"
Families, hobbies, television. He frowns, as if he doesn't quite understand.
Oleg Deripaska, billionaire aluminium magnate, interviewed by Gideon Rachman:
Why not cash out? I ask. Deripaska looks faintly indignant - "And do what?" he asks.
Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon, interviewed by Andrew Davidson:
His working hours? "I do 60 a week, any less I get bored, any more, tired. I mean, what do people do who do less? How do they fill the time?"
Families, hobbies, television. He frowns, as if he doesn't quite understand.
Oleg Deripaska, billionaire aluminium magnate, interviewed by Gideon Rachman:
Why not cash out? I ask. Deripaska looks faintly indignant - "And do what?" he asks.
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