Thursday, August 7, 2008
They tuck you up. . . .
Interesting, thoughtful and fairly serious interview with David Thewlis here. Love his quote of Billy Bragg's retake on a Philip Larkin "thing about the enemy of the artist [being] the pram in the hall."
His view of that was he didn't believe it at all. He's got several children and loves it and finds it inspiring. He gave me a poem he wrote that was a pastiche of Larkin's "They f*** you up, your mum and dad". He changed it to "They tuck you up, your mum and dad" and rewrote every line to make it a positive, loving, parental poem. It was a beautiful thing.He and Billy Bragg are right: you can make/take time to be both an artist and a parent.
Labels: good ideas, good people, tv, writing
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