I think that bass line just speaks for itself. And production-wise, we just, I don't know. I think Lee Scratch Perry's ghost came in and was like, do it like this.
I had thought I was going to write about this elderly gent living out his later years in this college and it was supposed to be a friendship that he forms with a young Indian woman student. And then I sat down to write the story and for some reason there appeared on my typewriter the words when he woke up that morning he was dead. I thought where'd that come from?
My greatest desire as a writer is to never have a voice. I I I don't want to have a voice of my own. I want to disappear in what I write. When I find myself on the page, I view that as an enormous failure.
I think one of the most difficult things for an independent designer is creating your signature language. Like, what is that signature identity that someone can recognize without even seeing a logo?
I find if I'm not at the desk working in the morning, the every hour I'm waiting to get started is substantially decreasing the quality of what I bring to the table.
AI is best understood not as a replacement for artists, but as another creative tool, one that expands what's possible while making taste, curiosity, and individual perspective even more valuable.
Alice feels betrayed by her own mind for a lot of the book. Um when I started the novel, I did it, too. And the reason why the prose is kind of jarred and chaotic and it's crammed with references that feel like they're about to spill over and just explode, that's because that's what living in her mind is like and what living in my mind was like.
AI is not built to do that ever. I mean the the the the tool itself is built to give you the most predictable outcome possible, the antithesis of what we're trying to do when we make a TV show or a film.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
