Earlier today I read an interesting interview with Keanu Reeves.
They were talking about his new movie as a director, and of
course they asked about his "influences."
I thought he did a good job with his answers; he's no dummy.
But it got me thinking about what my creative "influences"
might have been. Those humans or creative works that I
have identified with strongly, and thus might have shaped
my life.
They were too many to number, or discuss, until I started
wondering who or what might have inspired me to take up
my cafe lifestyle? Then, as synchronicity would have it, I
stumbled upon the following photo. It's an album cover
from 1981. I first discovered it while *sitting* in a cafe,
seeing it in the window of a record store across the street.
No influence there, nope. :-)
Of course, here in my Leiden cafe, my cigarette is electronic,
and the beer on my table comes in a brown bottle, and is
(ahem) better than his, but there IS a certain similarity.
And I, for one, can't feel bad about that, because Bruce's
credo has always been not to evangelize, just to "leave
footprints" in the form of cafe writings penned about
his travels through this mystery we call life.
He never asks anyone to follow them. But I guess I did.
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