It's pretty wild to imagine having a bowling alley in your own house, but picture being good friends enough with Bob Dylan where he keeps his bowling ball in your own personal bowling alley. You're imagining Jack White's life.
In a lengthy profile in The New Yorker, Alec Wilkinson wrote about the musician's house in Nashville, Tennessee:
In Nashville, White lives in a big house with a porch and columns, behind a tall iron gate. In back of the house is a screened hutch, like a chicken coop, with three white peacocks that are being trained to walk the property. Beyond are a few outbuildings. In one, White has an upholstery shop. In another, he has a three-lane bowling alley, where he keeps racks of balls for friends. Each dedicated ball has a name tag, and some of the balls are painted fancifully—Bob Dylan's has a portrait of John Wayne.
Bob Dylan has a bowling ball with John Wayne's face on it in Jack White's house. Why does that feel so right?
In addition to bowling with music legends, it looks like White is working hard on new music himself. "I'm going to try to write songs where I can't be heard by the next-door neighbor...And I want to write like Michael Jackson would write—instead of writing parts on the instruments or humming melodies, you think of them," White said. "To do everything in my head and to do it in silence and use only one room."
(H/T The New Yorker)
