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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 was good. It helped me document and articulate who I was and what I believed, allowing me to grow through those phases and evolve. And it was an early knowledge management system via creating personal hashtags on vibe, making it easier to "find the others". I was so lucky to stumble on and receive that w/out needing to know what I was looking for. Feels like that kind of online magic is increasingly rare. If I had to recreate it today, I'd: (1) seek out community on apps conducive to it (Warpcast, X, even Substack) (2) collect and curate in places like Pinterest and are.na (3) create and exist a hell of a lot more offline (4) talk about it online far more than I ever did
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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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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 3. Texts that take language seriously — • Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton • See #5 below 4. Texts that understand there is no hard distinction between the factual and the mythical — • Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung • Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje 5. Different styles: memoir, letters, essays — • Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke • A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes • And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger • Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty
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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: https://nicolasjaar.bandcamp.com/album/archivos-de-radio-piedras As most of what I listen to now is digital, I miss so much texture in how sounds were once routinely conveyed. So much physicality is lost when we do all we can to reduce friction and noise – it's easy to forget how hard each individual would work to receive communications and stay connected, so much so that we take it for granted and steer our efforts now towards disconnection, an orientation I find negative. I wish the default would switch back because I believe it is closer to reality: that we are each of us islands who reach out, waiting, straining for a sign of other life...
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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 want to move forward but don’t know how bc you don’t think of yourself as that kind of person “I’m legally allowed to do X”≠ “I’ve reached a threshold, past which I’m an adult, where I put away childish things” (to paraphrase an old book). Attention needs to be directed to your way of being, not what you have / possess. Adulthood rituals trigger this shift: they signal that it’s time to do so The loss of rituals is the loss of this mode of thinking and existing as a default. Rituals aren’t silly or archaic — they are important mentally bc they help us understand and cope with the flow of time
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