OneQuietCup

brewing thoughts on culture, life, and feminism

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Baby, don’t get it twisted. 

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Found me a new dance anthem for this season of my life. 

ZERO | Chela 

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This is how I know that I’m missing the lush, sticky rush of Asia. Listening to this and seeing glimpses of the chaos I know and love. 

Torn between homes. Always. 

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A bout of the romantic blues. 

It sounds like Mazzy Star meets Yo La Tengo. 

I. (Full Album) | Cigarettes After Sex 

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Don’t Wanna Fight | Alabama Shakes

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Do whatever I can... 

Never Work for Free | Tennis

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Pretty sure that I want this to play at my funeral. And we’re all gonna have a good time. 

Cherry-coloured Funk | Cocteau Twins

[thingstolovefor]

8 Year old Mari gives a few facts about the Flint Water Crisis

Please don’t forget #Flint. Spread the word! #Love it!

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Light, beautiful R&B-influenced pop tunes from this incredible Malaysian singer, Yuna. 

Falling | Yuna 

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Honestly, Hiatus Kaiyote is FIRRRRRE. 

Choose Your Weapon (Full Album) | Hiatus Kaiyote

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Jennifer Egan, On Writing

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do. If what you really love to read is y, it might be hard for you to write x.

Exercising is a good analogy for writing. If you’re not used to exercising you want to avoid it forever. If you’re used to it, it feels uncomfortable and strange not to. No matter where you are in your writing career, the same is true for writing. Even fifteen minutes a day will keep you in the habit.

You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly. You can’t write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.

From: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/07/jennifer-egan-on-writing/ 

[thelovejournals]

Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing in the world force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren’t inherently bad people, but they aren’t the right people for us. And as hard as it is, we have to let them go. Life is hard enough without being around people who bring you down, and as much as you care, you can’t destroy yourself for the sake of someone else. You have to make your wellbeing a priority. Whether that means breaking up with someone you care about, loving a family member from a distance, letting go of a friend, or removing yourself from a situation that feels painful — you have every right to leave and create a safer space for yourself.

Daniell Koepke (via thelovejournals)

[humansofnewyork]

“We met in college. He walked me home from school every day for five years. We would talk about everything: how many kids we wanted, how we wanted to raise them, our roles in the home, where we wanted to live, and even where we wanted to go on vacation. So there really haven’t been many surprises. A lot of couples only seem to talk about important things if they’re forced to make big decisions. And there can be this moment of: ‘I didn’t really know you.’ And there’s pressure to make a decision. And that’s when the biggest arguments seem to happen. We’ve luckily managed to avoid that because it’s all been discussed before. We’ve been married for fifteen years but we still walk home together from work every night. We’re actually doing that right now.”

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This is legit the sweetest thing ever. 

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Well ain’t that the truth. 

I Fall in Love Too Easily | Miles Davis

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Mindless & Broken | 3RD Core (MJ Cole Remix) 

[crossconnectmag]

Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto

Yamamoto Motoi (born in Onomichi, Hiroshima in 1966) is an internationally renowned artist who calls his native Japan home. Motoi is known for working with salt, often in the form of temporary, intricate, large-scale installations. Salt, a traditional symbol for purification and mourning in Japanese culture, is used in funeral rituals and by sumo wrestlers before matches.

Motoi forged a connection to the substance while mourning the death of his sister, at the age of twenty-four, from brain cancer, and began to create art out of salt in an effort to preserve his memories of her. His art radiates an intense beauty and tranquility, but also conveys something ineffable, painful, and endless.

“Drawing a labyrinth with salt is like following a trace of my memory. Memories seem to change and vanish as time goes by; however, what I seek is to capture a frozen moment that cannot be attained through pictures or writings,” Motoi has said.

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