Barrett Avner
Apr 14, 2022 BY
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My friend Alex Bienstock and I based our entire body of work and lifestyle on sucking down some Stubbs. There was no causality behind it at all, just magic. You donât need a reason, just telepathic singularity. But now weâve moved on to NONBBQ, because it became too much of a signifying subject. I drink this out of the bottle when I get stressed out. You can enter the Nubased by sucking down some BBQ sauce down by the river. I highly suggest people try doing this at least once to see if itâs something they might be into.
Apr 14, 2022
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Legend has it this manual was found in 1986 by an employee at Boeing inside an IBM printer being sold for scrap parts. It outlines how the credit system is predicated on population reduction. It has a lot of charts and diagrams that show how consumers are misled by manufactured causes and events. I have no idea if this is made up or not. It could be like the Voynich manuscripts, which have basically been debunked as totally fake. Honestly I think made up documents are cool. It's all just interesting to me.
Apr 14, 2022
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This has helped me a lot. Data (thoughts, emotions, sensations) can be very overwhelming. Practicing/reading this has helped me not get too invested in the sensations, which is kinda like stroking a snake, the head and the tail both lead to being bitten.
Apr 14, 2022
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This is probably the only modern consumer electronics I've come across that has an alchemical, otherworldly quality to it (A close second would be those faux wooden record players w a built in CD player and clock. Those are funny.) It doesnât do what other music players do. You can remix the songs, add effects, play them backwards, but what really makes it special is that DONDA 2 was released only for this particular piece of technology. It's a way of giving objects their purpose back, because the media can only exist in this one place. Everything feels so temporary because it can be played or seen anywhere.
Apr 14, 2022
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This works really well if you have a bad back. I got a basketball injury 4 years ago and recently started doing this everyday. I like the âHappy Babyâ pose. Anything knee to chest that decompresses the spine. For years I was doing the Cobra Stretch, which crushes the disks towards the lower back. If you have lower back problems, donât do this one.
Apr 14, 2022
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I got this book at the Museum of Jurassic Technology when I was 19. It was written by a homeless MIT grad who would staple pamphlets of prose philosophy around UCLA in the 90âs. Itâs kind of a precursor to a lot of what you see on twitter these days, schizoposting, etc. Iâve always been inspired by guys like this, another interesting guy was Shea Zellweger. If youâre like me you sometimes get an impulse to exclude yourself from group activities, alienate yourself, etc. I like how committed he was to writing and posting this stuff.
Apr 14, 2022
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This is my favorite TV show of all time. I read James Garnerâs autobiography a decade ago because I became so obsessed with this show. The idea of being a PI who hardly works, drives a gold Pontiac, lives in a trailer on Malibu beach in the 1970âsâŠall his relationships w/ women blur the line of friendship and romance. Impossible and hilarious to me.
Apr 14, 2022
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I love living in Texas. I get that maybe it doesnât have the best reputation as a place for âcreativesâ, but I think the distance can be very beneficial. I like the open sky, lakes, bbq, and the people Iâve met here. What's that Leonardo DaVinci quote â Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look upâ. I grew up near the pacific ocean and always disliked the beach. It always felt sad to me for some reason. A lot of people here who just kind of do their own thing. The pressure from places that demand explanations, discourse, âa reason for why you do thingsâ, I think leaving that mostly behind has helped a lot personally.
Apr 14, 2022