Apparently Pat Metheny has been keeping a road diary for decades. Stewart Copeland recently published his diary.
Diaries have been invaluable to me as well. When I revisit them, lots of the ideas that I jotted down have come to fruition, sometimes with very long lag times: It wasn't that I was going back to the diaries to get inspiration to finish the projects, the act of writing them down made it more possible for them to be finished. Now it's more interesting to read diaries and memoirs of other people. Keith Haring kept a fascinating diary. And I discovered Count Harry Kessler, an aesthete/flaneur/world traveler from the turn of the century. A 700-page tome was published about 10 years ago, with very detailed entries about his travels--hanging out with the likes of Stravinsky, Rodin, Rilke, and Matisse. I kept a paper diary for 15 years, and then stopped because I couldn't keep up with it. But I still keep an electronic diary which is the focal point for all creative activity. The interesting thing about electronic diaries accessible from a smartphone is that they can be endlessly re-shaped. This is both a good thing and a bad thing, as good ideas can be erased. Paper diaries are interesting in that they are the ‘dumbphone’ version, and can also have drawings and diagrams.
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