One of my fave ways to discover new music is through people's Bandcamp purchases and wishlists. Feels like crate digging through personal collections that sometimes come with notes, love letters, specific song recommendations
Latest finds:
— Pink/Blue by Medium Build with Ed Washington mediumbuild.bandcamp.co...
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No internet space has come close to rivalling the influence of early-mid 2010s Tumblr on me. It was partly the age I was at, partly the people there and how they thought about the world, which I didn't have in real life.
It shaped my literary, musical, and artistic tastes by showing me what was out there and why it wa...
✨5th prompt for this new season of /words ✨
What’s your earliest memory of really finding yourself and your people through internet culture (MySpace, forums, chat rooms, Tumblr etc) and how do you think that younger you would recreate this experience in the current internet era? Would it be possible?
Please respond
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In love with the recommended reading list from The Sims 1 and the implication that, rather than using them to escape real life and all of its problems, games and simulations can be a way to learn, practise, and get closer to a reality we want to live in. (The fact that the list includes Christopher Alexander is also pe...
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The bedroom pop guitar, the harshness of the beat, the repetition of the riffs, Antwon's voice rough and echoey over it — all sounds like leaning out of a car driving through a town you knew when you were a different person and thought life would be different; it's summer and you're wondering when everything fell apart...
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For non-fiction where each word matters, look for:
1. Texts that take storytelling seriously —
• The Power Broker by Robert Caro
• Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
• 1453 by Roger Crowley
2. Texts that take arguments seriously —
• Philosophical texts
• The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
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thinking about Wim Wenders' film, Perfect Days (2023), and how it walks the delicate line between (1) extolling the virtues of presence and attending to one's life with care and love, which can turn the most mundane of routines into joy and become our salvation, and (2) portraying how the architecture of a perfect rout...
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I love radios, and there's something so tactile, elegant, and retro-futuristic about this cube Sony TR-1825 transistor radio from the '70s
Images from: blog.iso50.com/26131/26131/
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Sharon Olds on the “comforting distance” of simile, allowing one to live in a radically interconnected world while remaining exactly oneself. There is no transformation, or collapse, as in metaphor.
I love this because I’ve always seen simile as less powerful and direct than metaphor, but this gives me a new understa...
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Nicolas Jaar's 17-episode radio play delivers a beautiful, haunting world through its rich soundscape – something I've always loved about his work:
nicolasjaar.bandcamp.com/album/archiv...
As most of what I listen to now is digital, I miss so much texture in how sounds were once routinely conv...
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One of the most beautiful passages I've read recently, on uncertainty, mystery, and transformation from Chloe Hope, writing Death & Birds (www.deathandbirds.com/p/love)
Even before the threshold of death, the reality is there is far more that is unknown than known. To survive, we must evolve in order to meet i...
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Thinking about initiation rituals and how the loss of rituals has meant the loss of stability and wisdom. Rituals structure time. Structuring time anchors how you perceive yourself and where your attention goes
In ageing, it’s crucial to step into and step up for each stage of life, or you exist in a limbo where you w...
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