Getting over creative block

In this week's newsletter: how a 4-year-old can help you get unstuck, Nick Cave on creative block, and more... 

In this week's newsletter: how a 4-year-old can help you get unstuck, Nick Cave on creative block, and more... View this email in your browser Hey y'all, Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week:  A different way to think about coming up with ideas: "They are not inside you, unable to get out; rather, they are outside of you, unable to get in."    If that doesn't help, a 4-year-old will get you unstuck.   This week I finished Donald Hall's Essays Over Eighty and Ryan Chapman's Riots I Have Known, a novel he compares to a Big Mac.    Wonderful, surprising comic by Emma Hunsinger: "How to draw a horse."   From the archives: On jealousy, and why you've got to make an enemy of envy.   Eye candy: Ellsworth Kelly stamps and 119-year-old footage of a solar eclipse.   Ear candy: PJ Harvey and Bjork do "Satisfaction."   Film criticism: I saw John Wick 3 and thought the Wick needed trimming.   Streaming: I've been binge-watching Barry on HBO. (Loved this profile of Bill Hader.) Among other things, the music supervision is great. Highlights of the soundtrack so far: the Charles Bradley intro, James Carr's "The Dark End of the Street," Roxy Music's "Virginia Plain," and BADBADNOTGOOD's "Time Moves Slow" (featuring Sam Herring of Future Islands).    RIP Texas music legend Roky Erickson. (You gotta listen to The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators and Easter Everywhere at least once.) Thanks for reading. If you like this newsletter and want to support it, forward it to someone who'd like it or, even better, buy them a book! If you're seeing this newsletter for the first time, you can subscribe here. xoxo,  Austin Austin Kleon is the author of Steal Like An Artist and other books. Subscribe to this newsletter   Copyright © 2019 Austin Kleon, All rights reserved. My mailing address is: Austin Kleon 19885 Detroit Road Box #222 Rocky River, OH 44116 You're getting this email because you signed up for it at austinkleon.com. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. Amazon Affiliate links offset the cost of sending these missives.