Justin Bryant

I just sold a four-book deal to Knopf. You have until January to write all four.

I’m putting it on my CV

I feel like a bully now

👏🏼👏🏼

Enjoyed that. But heads up, you invented a book called ‘The Brother Karamazov.’

This is really great

Mostly Sibelius and Mahler, if you’re wondering. Mahler’s 2nd 💙 ❤️Lemminkainen’s Return 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

I feel good about it.

There next step is actually writing again 😬

Post-surgery, I’ve made an effort to get my attention span back. I’ve started listening to classical music again, not as background music but concentrating on it, and I’m reading long books again.

😎🤝

It costs nothing to be a decent person. Simple fairness prompts me to acknowledge that it also costs nothing to be an asshole, and in fact you may profit from it.

Done!

😅

Look I don’t WANT you to have been hit by a bus, I just want a good story! If I say ‘I got attacked by a jungle cat’ and eventually I tell you an ocelot scratched my ankle, you might be a little disappointed 😅

I think it might be how you’re prefacing that story 😅

Tony Twist over here

It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
bout that movie Quigley Down Under

Did you ever hear the story of when a late night guy - might’ve been Conan - called his music ‘schlock rock’ on the air. Joel showed up to the set the next day and politely explained why he was wrong, and also said if I have to visit you a second time, I won’t be polite😎

*quotes another yacht rock song at you, oh let’s say ‘Reminiscing’ by Little River Band, to prove he gets the joke*

We’re just a few months away from another Lexus December to Remember 🗓️

Oh it will be and you know it 😎

Congrats! Enjoy!

Don’t let thoughts of how much hard work remains creep into your mind!

Just don’t even THINK about that.

All the hard work. You still gotta do.

That’s pretty unrealistic.

Celebrations of his death will NEVER wind down.

No admittedly it doesn’t. I guess I should give him more time.

Hank should’ve figured out Walter White was Heisenberg in about 20 minutes.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, dir Steven Spielberg): A man travels to a different galaxy to get away from his terrible wife and kids.

I watched that while recovering from surgery and…wow. That guy was the very living embodiment of hubrisof.

Oh man 🙏🏼

Happy birthday 🎉🎈🎊