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Hi there. I'm Aniela. My brain is everywhere at once and my blog is too.  Shit I Make // My Band

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I think I’m going to have serious health problems from school in the long run. Like, I’ve been sitting, staring at this shit for like 4 hours and I have the gnarliest headache, my butt and feet are going numb, and my vision is super blurry. Computers bad. I think this is what dying feels like.

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Oh sweet college me, you had no idea that having a full time job would be so much worse.

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One must imagine Sisyphus drunk.

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"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

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I got a new camera and I feel like a teenager all over again.

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Brian Bell and Rivers in 1993. Photo credit: Karl Koch

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Weezer, circa 1992. Photo credit: Heather Conley/Karl Koch Weezer Archive

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You have never been heavy to carry, it's life without you that would be an exhausting burden. You are my light, my flame, burning or sweet, of course, but my rest in this world.

Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, April 11, 1950 [#276]

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This is Katsu. Two days after I got back from tour, my coworker asked me if we wanted to adopt a cat and she 100% saved me from reaching the depths of post-tour depression. I would pretty much do anything for this cat, she is my life now. https://www.instagram.com/p/ClHfk0Nyhf9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I think I’m gonna get back on tumblr https://www.instagram.com/p/CjpDmSvu-Br/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I told Miyazaki I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.

“We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.”

Is that like the “pillow words” that separate phrases in Japanese poetry?

“I don’t think it’s like the pillow word.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.”

Which helps explain why Miyazaki’s films are more absorbing and involving than the frantic cheerful action in a lot of American animation. I asked him to explain that a little more.

“The people who make the movies are scared of silence, so they want to paper and plaster it over,” he said. “They’re worried that the audience will get bored. They might go up and get some popcorn.

But just because it’s 80 percent intense all the time doesn’t mean the kids are going to bless you with their concentration. What really matters is the underlying emotions–that you never let go of those.

— Roger Ebert in conversation with Hiyao Miyazaki

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Here‘s an old ass picture of me and @garbagepup because I’m getting really excited to play with her and the rest of @suzietrueband in just a little over a week!! (at Santa Maria, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsbX9gBDAR-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uv625vxqpz1f

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The best parts of Christmas. https://www.instagram.com/p/Br18kCrjyGU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17ucve3r2lh9n

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There’s this quote by Ira Glass about making creative work that keeps me going when it feels hard. I think @sora_korra showed it to me years ago, I talked to @soupswoon about it the first time we hung out, and today I found it written out in its ENTIRETY in a bathroom stall at Blue Moon. I think it’s a sign of some kind?? (If you cant read it here, look it up, it’s great) https://www.instagram.com/p/BruD5-Mj5I9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cie7eiznwpn6

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Thanks for being our solstice guide @willywalks and to all the other friendos there for making me feel like my intentions are already manifesting ❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/Brs1HyQDXd_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1122x445xnxrg

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😎 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrD9sjPDANY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1imfep963yhwz

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Sunday (so late, so late) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqV3zkuj-E9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=af5oeizat94q

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This was the last time I saw the sun today, we be recordin’. https://www.instagram.com/p/BqTi-CADKgo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vqrld54c6eh