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Do you think that the Moleskine sketchbook itself is pretentious, or just that it's pretentious to sketch in public? Todd & I have lamented that we always bring our sketchbooks with us on vacations, then are too self-conscious to draw in public. That's the other sort of drawing that I have in my sketchbook, besides cats --the insides of hotel rooms.
Ahhhhh, I really didn't need to know about those Muji notebooks *short period of intense covetousness* ...what are Red and Black notebooks, by the way? Is that the brand, or just what color they are?
Do you want to hear about my notebooks? Say yes. I will pay you to say yes.
Yay, okay.
I have three kinds: one, I use Circa notebooks, which are sort of a cross between a spiral and a binder, from Levenger, for my agendas. I have the regular-size and the junior-size, and I make the pages myself on a copy machine. The regular size one is for life outside work --e.g., evenings and weekends; the junior size one is for work or weekdays.
Two, I've been using these junior-size "business" spiral notebooks for ...two years, I guess. I don't know what makes it "business," as it's purple with purple pages. It's narrow-ruled, which is important. And the spiral's nice and compact, generally I find spirals too bulky & then they get mashed and the pages don't turn properly. This is for blurty stuff, I wouldn't even call it a journal. At least one of the books is full of nothing but I-Ching readings. Writing in this way was kind of a discovery for me. Before this, I would habitually tear out pages if I spelled something wrong, or miswrote it, or even if I didn't like how my handwriting looked. The handwriting in these books is the handwriting of a madman. These are the books of Id, and I just keep filling them up. The bad, sad thing that I was commiserating with Cholister about is that they changed the paper from a nice, pale orchid to a bright lavender; when I found out about the color change, I bought up the rest of the orchid ones, but I am almost out  and then I don't know what I am going to do.
Three, I just bought these Moleskines. Despite sounding like an utter fou about notebooks, this is actually the first new notebook purchase I've made in two years. I had this brainflash writing in my purple notebook that I needed to be writing this way for my "actual" writing, but that I did need to be able to find this writing. (It's impossible to find stuff in my purple notebook, because I turn the notebook upside-down to write on the back of pages, so the spiral is always on my left & isn't in my way, which slows me down. It's nauseating to read, so I don't.) Hence, the cheap Moleskines. I also got a set of these unlined to see if this will work for drawing, too. Wouldn't it be funny if every fifth page of the unlined notebooks were lined, I could break from my drawing to burst into an essay or poem? |
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