Andy W

@aweissman

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it's so good word of mouth is spreading .....

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sleeper hit of the year

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this book hits like a motherfucker

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"We always started small, with some inspiration" - Ken Kocienda, Creative Selection

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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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"The first beautiful songs you hear tend to stay beautiful because better than beauty, which is everywhere, is the memory of first discovering beauty" - Sarah Manguso

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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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same - I am usually reading 2 or 3 books at a time, my mentals are in different places day to day and need different words and stories depending

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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great review, in fact , cant wait to see

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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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The Dispossessed is a remarkable book

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Lying Awake by Mark Salzman (it enlightened me to what spirituality may, or may not, be)

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

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