The latest episode of Patreon’s interview show Digital Spaghetti is out now! It was a blast to work on - filmmakers Freddie Wong and Matt Arnold raised $450K via Patreon to shoot a sci-fi film, using some unique fundraising strategies. Check it out here!

17 Minutes of Charles Schulz drawing Peanuts, with music by Vince Guaraldi of course! Schulz says “…if you’re going to draw a comic strip, if you’re going to wait for inspiration, you’ll never make it”. Phew, that one hits home for me - waiting around for the right idea to strike leads to a lack of drawing discipline. Austin Kleon talks a lot about “going through the motions” - putting pen to paper before you know what to draw. In other words, letting your hands decide what art to make, not your head.

Last issue featured some excellent instagram pages - here’s one more! Charlie Rose, who draws famous chairs using oil pastels.

I made a playlist of (nearly) all the songs featured on Gems of the Internet! You can follow here :)

I’m not a huge fan of reality T.V., but there’s a new show called Offseason FC, featuring female soccer players from the NWSL, all from different teams, living in the same house. The drama!

An oil painting of the perfect meal.

Music: “Got to Be Mine” by Vulfmon & Evangeline (with a fun music video). One of my favorite concerts ever was seeing Vulfpeck in a former church in Amsterdam in 2017!! Another excellent cover, this time it’s Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck Babe” by Sabrina Carpenter. Maggie Rogers’ “The Kill” live on Colbert. And my new favorite YouTube show, Blind Covers, in which a band has one hour to write music to go with the lyrics of a song they’ve never heard. This episode features a much slower, Randy Newman-inspired take on the energy-infused, upbeat Vampire Weekend song “Unbelievers”. Thanks for the reader recommendation Trevor! :)

The Blind Covers series reminded me of another YouTube show, where drummers hear songs for the first time (without a drum track) and improvise their own parts.

Ryan Holiday sits down with his research assistant Billy Oppenheimer to discuss the newest book in his stoic virtues series, Right Here, Right Now. Billy writes a great weekly newsletter called Six at 6 on Sunday, where he chooses a theme or lesson and picks six stories to illustrate it. It feels like a natural extension of the famous notecard system used by Billy, and his mentor Ryan, and his mentor Robert Greene.