Sunday, April 30, 2006

Buster Keaton in the Bathroom


Buster Keaton, in his later years, smoked a cigarette using a long holder without looking effete or pompous. Of course, he died of lung cancer, so a fancy holder will only get a guy so far. But it looked cool.

Buster said that some of his best creative ideas came to him in the bathroom while he was shaving. What is it about the bathroom that makes it such a lively creative place? I’ve noted too that ideas always come to me when I’m in the shower. Some part of our brains gets shut off while we’re grooming, apparently, and that frees up the creative instinct. Interesting, I think.

2 comments:

cityofmushrooms said...

thank you for beautiful buster

cityofmushrooms said...

yes, you have to get out of the shower and run for the notebook