gravity well

the kurt cobain of being alive

[clearlightwired]

not a minor but i believe in their beliefs

[evilwitch]

My spine is straightening and my neck is untwisting. My face is almost on right. My skin is almost where it's supposed to be. My fluid is leaving my body. My soul is spasming.

[clearlightwired]

a "playlist" is sort of like the thinking man's "nootropic stack"

[targetedknowledge]

[idrawsnoopyeveryday]

Can you draw Snoopy and Charlie watching a movie together? Thanks so much, I love your art.

218.

[clearlightwired]

reading delillo's stuff i'm always like, is he describing a way people really talk and are, just seen and quoted and ordered differently than i would, or is it a totally different thing, and where did he even get the idea if so. who ARE these people

[clearlightwired]

really good stuff going on in this entire article

[eschocat]

dazzle camo on the shirt so the opps can't see how I'm moving

[tsarina-anadyomene]

the cute world fallacy

[iamaine]

repeating this to myself as a list of daily affirmations

[obeliskandmetronome]

[clearlightwired]

Paul D'Amato, Rave

[clearlightwired]

Paul D'Amato, Violation, 1991

[clearlightwired]

John Sanderson, Cattle Drive

[clearlightwired]

John Sanderson, Steel Mill and Houses

[clearlightwired]

John Sanderson, Wrangler

[clearlightwired]

i've been reading rilke's letters to a young poet. what i keep thinking is, there's an almost horoscope-like quality to it—what young person has not felt alone and confused about love? and with this book you can roleplay that rilke was writing to specifically you. the effect is a little strange, and i don't know of many other books like it. of course there's collections of authors' correspondence, but in most of it you aren't encouraged so heavily to identify yourself with the recipient. what's nice about art is its ability to, despite its wide audience, feel like it speaks to your own personal life, but it's a little unsettling to have the art try and force the feeling upon you (and of course these were never intended to be read this way, kappus published them after rilke's death). you're a very special young poet aren't you yes you are yes you are

i could write the opposite post, that this book's beauty is its relevance, and its publishing and acclaim evidence that all us sensitive artistic types really do have similar problems and how there's something moving about that—but the feeling of it as an object, a book of letters originally meant for one person now distributed as advice to people everywhere... i don't know. you could read it differently, as simply a look at rilke himself. but for that i should've started with his poetry.