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@listenitsmorning
where memory is too much, one turns to the eye;
so i watch the particularities.
in a few days, i shall be going to Osaka.
here, a deep contentment is, at once
I want to leave & never look back.
I know it all now; it was closer then.
- i can’t remember where, Arthur Yap
& at this ruby-amber corner
i could only gaze & piece together
whatever I had want of. i was free
because I was free from myself;
a mere witness in whom arose a great need,
urging like silent desperation, prayer,
to be included. I could be a mote, kill glass,
a sunsteeped blob of blood. A nothingness.
God, such stillness was.
Your fingers were there.
What do you hold up to bless?
- stained glass, Arthur Yap
SONYA: What can we do? We must live out our lives. [A pause] Yes, we shall live, Uncle Vanya. We shall live all through the endless procession of days ahead of us, and through the long evenings. We shall bear patiently the burdens that fate imposes on us. We shall work without rest for others, both now and when we are old. And when our final hour comes, we shall meet it humbly, and there beyond the grave, we shall say that we have known suffering and tears, that our life was bitter. And God will pity us. Ah, then, dear, dear Uncle, we shall enter on a bright and beautiful life. We shall rejoice and look back upon our grief here. A tender smile -- and -- we shall rest. I have faith, Uncle, fervent, passionate faith. We shall rest. We shall rest. We shall hear the angels. We shall see heaven shining like a jewel. We shall see evil and all our pain disappear in the great pity that shall enfold the world. Our life will be as peaceful and gentle and sweet as a caress. I have faith; I have faith. [Wiping away her tears] My poor, poor Uncle Vanya, you are crying! [Weeping] You have never known what it is to be happy, but wait, Uncle Vanya, wait! We shall rest. We shall rest. We shall rest.
- Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov
“Tobacco’s a killer,” Kafuku said. “Being alive is a killer, if you think about it.”
- Drive My Car, Haruki Murakami
“But, Mr. Kafuku, can any of us ever perfectly understand another person? However much we may love them?
…
But the proposition that we can look into another person’s heart with perfect clarity strikes me as a fool’s game. I don’t care how well we think we should understand them, or how much we love them. All it can do is cause us pain. Examining your own heart, however, is another matter. I think it’s possible to see what’s in there if you work hard enough at it. So in the end maybe that’s the challenge: to look inside your own heart as perceptively and seriously as you can, and to make peace with what you find there. If we hope to truly see another person, we have to start by looking within ourselves.”
- Drive My Car, Haruki Murakami
“Our actions aren’t based on specifics like that—we can’t pinpoint why we do what we do. Relationships between people, especially between men and women, operate on—what should I say—a more general level. More vague, more self-centered, more pathetic.”
-Drive My Car, Haruki Murakami
“The images whittled away at him like a sharp knife, steady and unrelenting. There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.”
- Drive My Car, Haruki Murakami
“When I was a teenager in Korea, we didn’t have rave culture like there was in the UK. “I Go” is a tribute to that era, my own reimagination of the sounds I grew up loving. The lyrics are inspired by a note I wrote on my phone in 2019, staring at myself in the mirror of an airport toilet – I looked so exhausted but there was no way I wasn’t going to keep going! “I Go” is basically me motivating myself, finding courage and returning to a feeling of innocence. I hope people feel the same sense of positivity when they hear it.“
Be brave like a child
some songs are so timeless and perennial, even as I start to feel my age. so odd to think that songs that embodied a certain moment were 5, 10 years ago - like the #millennialtoks I send to friends with club music from the early ‘10s
“I often refer to this feeling as one of yearning for a lost world. It’s a sense that although you may currently be living in a world of constraints, if you were free from those constraints, you would be able to do all sorts of things. And it’s this feeling, I believe, that makes mid-teens so passionate about anime.
The word nostalgia comes to mind. Adults, fondly recalling something from their childhood, often speak of nostalgia. But even three-, four-, and five-year-olds feel a similar sentiment. It’s something that all of us, regardless of age, actually experience. And as we get older, the breadth—or depth—of our nostalgia definitely increases. I believe, in fact, that nostalgia is one of the fundamental starting points for most people involved in creating animation.
Human history exists in a continuum encompassing both the past and the future, but the moment someone is born into this present instant, into 1978, he or she has already lost certain opportunities or possibilities, including the chance to be born in other ages. Yet we can still enjoy ourselves in different fantasy worlds. And this yearning for other, lost possibilities may also be a major motivator for those of us in the industry.
Most people feel unfulfilled by something in their lives, even if they don’t consider themselves to be living in a particularly unhappy environment.”
- Starting Point: 1979-1996, Hayao Miyazaki
“People think the decisions you make that change the course of your life are the big ones. Marriage proposals. House moves. Job applications. But she knows it’s the little ones, the tiny moments, that really plot the course. Moments like this.
Her options:
Say something short and flippant, move on, end this now.
Or say something that prolongs this, stay longer, invite more, open a door.
She keeps a screenshot on her phone of a quote by, supposedly, Abraham Lincoln: Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want the most. Maybe that’s true, but discipline has never been her problem. It’s fear she struggles with. She thinks courage might be choosing between what you want now and what you want the most, because what she wants now is to walk away, to shut this down, to close the door. To retreat. To stay in the place where she feels safe and secure.
But what she wants the most is to be able to live a full life, even if the expansion comes with pain and risk and fear, even if it means crossing a minefield first.”
-56 Days, Catherine Ryan Howard
grizzly bear - two weeks
save up all the days / a routine malaise / just like yesterday / I told you I would stay would you always / maybe sometimes / make it easy / take your time
think of all the ways / momentary phase / just like yesterday / I told you I would stay
every time you try / quarter half a mile / just like yesterday / I told you I would stay
sheer nostalgia
explosions in the sky - disintegration anxiety
skittish unease, then a momentary glimpse of something forlorn and beautiful
jamie xx - far nearer
I feel better when I / you feel better when I / I feel better when I have you near me
you / me / you I feel better / you feel better / I feel better
I had put this song on my Spotify about a year ago and was looking for it recently but realised it’d been removed. possibly some kind of ironic lesson in digital impermanence.
these days, I’m probably as inarticulate as the lyrics, but it doesn’t make it any less truthful. something wordless but still raw and honest
bill callahan - the breeze / my baby cries (kath bloom cover)
I'd like to touch you / but I've forgotten how / and said I didn't need you / but look at me now / sometime in the summer / when we're lying in the breeze / the breeze will kill me / the breeze will kill me I tried to follow the path that you're on / something in me is stubborn / I keep going wrong / if you can forgive me now / we'll meet up in another land / when the breeze has killed me / when the breeze has killed me sometime in the summer / when we're lying in the grass / and the breeze / the breeze well my baby cries when he's tired / my puppy howls with the moon / you can never be sure of the people that you know / they don't want to show you their sadness yesterday I talked with / my father / he said that we could / never win / it's so hard to tell / where I end / and my father begins so if you see me / passing by / please hold me deep in your heart / and just remember I want to help you / I don't want to hurt you / just remember I want to help you / I don't want to hurt you / so don't tear it apart well my baby cries when he's tired / my puppy howls with the moon
the stoicness of it all
flight facilities - clair de lune (live with owl eyes & the MSO)
if I would know you, would you know me? don't go / tell me that the lights won't change / tell me that you'll feel the same / and we'll stay here forever / don't go / tell me that the lights won't change / tell me that it'll stay the same / where we go / where we / where we go / where we go / where we go / where we go / where we go
magic
m83 - steve mcqueen
I woke up stronger than ever / driven by big waves of fire / to run and yell all the way / nothing can hurt me today there's a magic inside / just waiting to burst out / the world is a goldmine / that will melt tomorrow
I just can't recognize myself / tears of joy run all over my face / my sensations reach the limit / nothing can hurt me today
there's a magic inside / just waiting to burst out / the world is a goldmine / that will melt tomorrow
living for / living for / a thrill
just waiting
full of triumph and love for life
