Andy W

@aweissman

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"etched against a sky of inconceivable bitterness" recently devoured this book, and now ranks among my favorite nyc novels and also imagine, for a moment, being able to come up with prose like this

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nice touch on the bottom of the dwell dripper

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Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

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i dont care how cheesy, it's a beautiful song, and first time played in 16 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LDMgGBWKGE

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The wonderful Adam Curtis on friends

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"the chaos in our souls" - DeLillo

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sleeper hit of the year

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this book hits like a motherfucker

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"Something very small, so tiny and insignificant as to be almost invisible in its origin, can nonetheless open up a new and radiant perspective" - Benjamin Labatut, The Maniac

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"The place to have the fight for the nation’s imagination was California" -Christopher Hill, Into the Mystic

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This is a wonderful, and wonderfully unique (yea, contrarian) essay (from @joanwestenberg.eth) Glad i woke up to this "My new system is, simply, no system at all. I write what I think. I delete what I don’t need. I don’t capture everything. I don’t try to. I read what I feel like. I think in conversation, in movement, in context. I don’t build a second brain. I inhabit the first." Reminds me of the Sarah Manguso line from the book 300 Arguments: "The first beautiful songs you hear tend to stay beautiful because better than beauty, which is everywhere, is the memory of first discovering beauty" https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain

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sick - Zip-up Leather Slippers by Bottega Veneta https://x.com/StreetFashion01/status/1934923044851470799

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for some reason woke up and decided to blow up my reading list and re-read some Fisher

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Wonderful essay from David Marx on culture, pop music, pop music culture, and what it all might mean "We live under an enduring critical contrarianism that is quick to find depth in shallowness, authenticity in artificiality, and true affirmations of life in cynical pursuit of profit." https://culture.ghost.io/the-pro-pop-ideology-from-ashlee-to-addison/

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"Happenstance might have made me an Englishman, but I chose to be a New Yorker. And, hopefully, I’ll die as one, too." I adored this book He doesn't explain his life - just describes it. Mistakes after mistake after mistake and there are many - personal and professional. Work is where he finds meaning. Yet, not redemption, nor clarity. Just description. It didn't cheer me up - or break my heart. It is sharp, strange and unique. And yes, he in part invented what we now think of as downtown NYC. "Restaurant design begins and ends with lighting"

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Fun, funny, poignant, beautiful, tears A radical artist, it's ok to be different

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Giving flowers to friends is underrated (as well as really fun)

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