Tuna
I’ve recently discovered canned tuna. Skipjack, white meat in spring water. It’s the prefect food. Basically just protein.
Somebody told me Christian Bale ate 1 apple, 1 tin of tuna and had a few vitamin supplements as a 3 month diet for The Machinist.
I’ve just realised I have pretty much the same primary diet, but I also eat yogurt and I eat out at lunchtimes.
I think I like the taoist simplicity.
“You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake”
Ownership
I’ve also realised that I don’t own anything (tangible) with a value of more than maybe R2000.. which is what I guess my current camera would be worth. In some ways you could say the camera is not really an asset, I’m sure it will be pretty worthless in a year, it just provides a service.
I have about 15000 photos. Since 2000, I figure that works out to a rate of about 70c/photo.
“If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.” “The things you own end up owning you.”
Breakups
Recently three friends have gone through (major) breakups and I count at least one friend that seems very disillusioned in the initial phase of a relationship where you would assume natural chemical infatuation would keep some momentum.
My advice after the most recent breakup:
1) Get lots of exercise, two sessions a day for two weeks.
2) Listen to the Moloko, Statues album.
3) Read The Origin of Emotions. It’s what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity.
“I’m a thirty-year-old boy. We’re a generation of men raised by women. I’m wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.”
Quotes are from Fight Club.
That makes me want to watch Fight Club again! It’s so true that the things you own end up owning you, I looked at a bunch of my stuff this weekend and thought that it’s not worth having some of the stuff if I have to maintain and take care of it.
Canned tuna FTW. BTW, you get tuna-in-water sachet’s too, which are a bit nicer than the canned ones. It gets a bit boring after a while if you don’t alternate though.
Also good listening: No Doubt, Don’t Speak and It’s my life.
Joe,
“No Doubt, Don’t Speak”
That’s a soppy song! Any man caught listening to that is askin’ for a dumpin’ ;).
Personally I go for angry songs and bad language.
..asking to be dumped is not always a bad strategy.