Janna (janna)
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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 routine and an existence seemingly shorn of the past can also be an illusion used to suppress or escape from things too painful to address
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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: https://blog.iso50.com/26131/26131/
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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 There's an inevitability to the grief in Antwon's forceful delivery and the constancy of the guitar and the beat: "you seemed so sad, I felt the same / I knew you felt a way that I couldn't change", all delivered as facts. No illusory hopes, no wishing it away, no positive spin. Only an acknowledgement of the sadness and its gravity — a recognition poignant in itself because sometimes all we want is just to be heard, to be seen Feels dumb to say (because surely it's the point of music) but I love a track in which the instrumentation and production add a vital layer to the story being told that couldn't be expressed any other way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip6P1do1__c
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Grateful to be alive — 1. Mary Oliver: “It is a serious thing to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world” 2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: “I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there is a whole life in that, in knowing the sun is there.”
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