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Everything old is new again
“Love cosmetics were anti-cosmetics, makeup for a time—and a generation—at war with the pretense and falseness of makeup.”
“It was a strange, even paradoxical claim for a brand of cosmetics to be making, but it seemed to work: while older brands were said to mask and conceal the user’s selfhood, Love enhanced her individuality, allowed her real nature to come to the surface: "You’ve got a complexion worth seeing. You don’t need make-ups that blank you out. Ours won’t. Ours can’t.”
“The products themselves came in radically simplified packages, basic cylinders rather than the elaborate faux-crystal decanters of other brands. They bore whimsical instructions printed on the bottles in earnest, sans-serif typefaces.”
(Thomas Frank, The Conquest of Cool)
Isabelle Huppert in The Lacemaker
a friend of mine sent me a pic of her attempt to stop talking to someone based on a page in Person/a. lol. good luck!
THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE presents: CAVE GIRLS AND TRASHY FASHIONS: UNSEEN POST-PUNK VIDEOS BY WOMEN (1977-1999)
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i saw chris kraus speak a couple weeks ago and it felt as captivating as a teen movie because her tone of voice was as titillating as mine in terms of wavering within a very high register.
once i spoke on the phone with a friend and he said “WAIT -- can you TRY to not speak in such a SHRILL manner? it’s HURTING my ears.”
never have i ever felt soft and ALSO heard
in any case
i am going to subsist with my jaunty rhythm of speech
because that’s how people pay attention to you because you’re funny
and that’s how people pay attention to you because you’re right
tone is everything
take one class
then you’ll learn!
“As the 2016 school year began, hundreds of students in St. Louis Public Schools walked in to find their drinking fountains wrapped in yellow tape.”
Lead findings in St. Louis Public Schools are just the latest link in a generations-long struggle against environmental racism, which will only be further institutionalized under the Trump regime.
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talking shit
edit: this was in my drafts. not sure when it’s from. i’m glad i don’t feel this way anymore.
last night i was completely upended by. stranger's words. someone i know nothing about, who knows nothing about me.
i hate the phrasing "[he/she/you] made me feel bad," because ideally we would all be in control of our emotions and nobody can really make you feel anything.
the english language is so limiting and so is typing with your thumbs.
i spent the day feeling like shit, thinking of all the reasons why i am shitty and how i have nothing to say if someone asks me what's new or what i'm up to. i don't feel proud of anything i've done. i've half assed my way through most things. i am afraid that any project i've completed has been driven by the desire to be productive and not to create or express myself. i disappoint myself in many ways. i am lazy and cut corners.
i feel like i am at the longest red light or that i am trudging through weeds with a dull scythe. i haven't learned anything new in years.
i feel like i've actually declined in talent since i was a teenager.
but i have to go on, right? granted, my lows are not as low as they could be.
maybe due to vanity. how much of ‘going on’ is lying to yourself?
is remaining positive the greatest hypnotist trick? the alternative is to stop and give up. i am aware that concern over my creativity is an extremely privileged stance to take. many people do not have the resources that i do.
lately i’ve been replacing my “i’m sorry”s with “thank you”s, like instead of “sorry i’m late” i’ll say “thanks for waiting for me”, or instead of “sorry for being such a mess” i’ll say “thank you for loving me and caring about me unconditionally” and it’s not only shifted the way i think and feel about myself but also improved my relationships with others who now get to receive my gratitude instead of my negativity
good advice
SELF-LOVE / THE EMPRESS by elaine kahn
I hate sleeping because
then I cannot keep improving
I don’t think there’s anything
the matter with ambition
My betterness or worseness
is not part of the public domain
I’d like to fuck myself so hard
I get pregnant and give birth to me
I’ll say daddy was a bad man
I’ll say mama was his bag man
But I’ll take care of me so good
I’ll make myself fried eggs
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