Eating all the pine needles off the floor as a child helped me develop the thick waxy coating I have today

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

counterpoint

an insane achievement for anime opening theme technology, possibly the most joymaxxed thing I've ever heard with my ears www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1kK...

Can be a brilliant social butterfly so long as there is ample time to be primordial ooze in my chrysalis as well

:) editionsmego.bandcamp.com/track/y

re: LLM answers at the top of search results — it's so funny that they put a little imp who lies to you at the gate to All Human Knowledge. Does Google think it's protecting the city of Thebes??

[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy

Finally sitting down with @chloeharris.bsky.social's new album on @jo-johnson.bsky.social's Silver Threads label, and my god is it beautiful. I'll definitely be writing more on it, but wanted to shout it out here silverthreads.bandcamp.com/album/if-not...

your evil, ill-considered ideas are unworthy of debate bro. prepare to die.

Snapshot in History: WIRE Festival 2000, Yokoham Arena Japan. youtu.be/5f4fG9iIJW8

doing a lot of german philosophy to arrive at the conclusion that people should talk to each other

Probably good for a very rainy wet day (like here in Seattle). We have also lost power from a huge windstorm. 🥹

I do sometimes get the impression there might be some problematic sexual or romantic goings on amongst the Nerv team.

having a first-order opinion on the ontological priority of concepts is an L

Nice rough beast if it even thinks about slouching anywhere I’m emptying my clip into it

The classical question of capital-T Truth was an obsession for Francis Bacon, John Donne, and John Keats, but in the age of fake news, state-sponsored censors, and AI, it is a problem for everybody. Werner Herzog, as usual, has come to the rescue.

bro come over we’re examining a wider regime of the self rn

what if Antigone buries Creon, what then hmm? "I'll find [him] a desert in the neighbourhood // sacred closet"

Talking with young Prince Slumber about Ghost Rider comics and the Nic Cage movies (haven't seen them) and of course I had to play this for him. Not like I ever really forget how incredible this record, but it's always nice to be reminded how peak it is. youtu.be/Qn0_fDjvI_s

he dunnit again 🥹 kevindrumm.bandcamp.com/album/eremit...

“while the artworld and popular culture seemed to favor spectacle, i was interested in silence, humility, intimacy, and thus began to describe my work as having a lowercase aesthetic—and i viewed the term as a quiet form of protest.” —steve roden

For the Almanac, I wrote about Lafcadio Hearn and the value of publishing a “bad” translation: open.substack.com/pub/paradise...

bad news: i'm posting this from heaven and it's an HOA up here

Cass Sunstein is a cowboy name. Get that man to a ranch

me trip sitting

RIP and glory 🫡🫡🫡 soundcloud.com/high-30/opti...

Gillian Rose was born September 20th, 1947. All of Rose's books are 30% off through the weekend, to celebrate what would have been her 78th birthday

inquiring minds want to know

so true mr. ashbery sir

I so specifically and badly need a version of the salute emoji that is crying

one again, forever etc moodhut.bandcamp.com/track/hymn-t...

OP-1? Yeah brother it does sound like your opps won. They got you out here paying 2k for that tiny ass synth

rdy 2 dance www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_O8...

Jim O’Rourke’s Steamroom series of electronic and archive works now has its prices cut by half, to help people fill the gaps. So much incredible music here: you can literally dip in at random and land on something beautiful every time. steamroom.bandcamp.com

MEDIUM: i will now speak and translate the words of author franz kafka. speak, and his spirit answers ME: mr. kafka! i love your work. what do you see as the core kafka cinematic universe? MEDIUM: he is praying you contract tuberculosis ME: ha ha! tell him we can cure that now. call him a bitch