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Once, I was in LA and rented a car from Avis. While I had the car, I got Covid. This was in 2021 so Covid rules were still quite strict. I had to quarantine and couldnāt return the car. I called them and offered for a friend to return the car for me but they insisted they had to come tow it and decontaminate it. The reason I was in LA was for our first big LA party, which I had been planning for a long time, and it was my first time getting Covid, so it was already a very stressful situation. They insisted thatās all they could do and I didnāt need to worry. Two months later they called me and said they were just getting the car back after 2 months so they had to charge me thousands of dollars. I told them that they had the car towed two months prior and they told me I was lying and that I had kept the car for two months, even though I was no longer even in LA. After two days on the phone arguing with people, I kept getting transferred to other people and all of them insisted I was lying about the whole situation and that I had the car this entire time, which didnāt make any sense. I eventually reported the charge of thousands of dollars as fraud and closed the credit card. I then took out a new credit card, and a little while later, they somehow managed to charge the new card thousands of dollars again. I donāt even understand how thatās possible. It took weeks of arguing on the phone with them and eventually the charge just disappeared, even though everyone I talked to this second time around still implied I was lying up until the bitter end and never backed down. By the time the saga was finally over, it was months after my trip to LA. I was so angry about it I swore to myself right then and there that I would find a way to air out this petty grievance in a public forum, and inspire the masses to take a stand and never rent from Avis. When Tyler asked me to do another Perfectly Imperfect, this was the first thing my mind went to. If you really want to help my cause, every time you see an Avis Car Rental at an airport or whatever go up to the desk and say you will never rent a car from them because of Curtis Everett Pawley.
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May 16, 2024
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for a multitude of reasonsā¦but today itās because every time i get a tesla uber it makes me crazy car sick and messes up my whole day
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Idk why this didnāt work in this case, and Iām sorry it was such an ordeal! But Iāve only been approached by people with petitions and not asking for sign-ups or donations. And mostly itās been for stuff I believe in so Iām happy to stop and sign. But last year, kinda weirdly last minute before the election (like september I think?) this guy stopped and asked me to sign a petition, and I was like āoh yeah sure thatās something I do, whatās it for?ā And it was for getting RFK Jr on the ballot š¤®š¤®š¤® so I said āNo, Iām sorry I canāt do that sir.ā He asked me where he could go where people might say yes and I said āI donāt know, Iām sorryā and just walked away :/
May 29, 2025
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If your band name doesnāt have a The in it, I donāt even know what to tell you.
Aug 17, 2023
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Randonautica is an app that generates a āquantumly randomā point on a map which you go to. Youāre supposed to set an intention, however vague you want, while it generates the point and see what you discover with regards to that intention on the way to the point and then at the point itself. Then you can set another point from the first point and keep this process going as long as you want. I guess it was a thing on TikTok for a while but I swear it isnāt corny. I did it by myself out of curiosity and had a really crazy experience thatās too complicated to explain. No one I told seemed phased by it until I forced my friends to do it when we were in London and we had an equally crazy experience. I know itās annoying that Iām not giving details but trust me, itās too complicated to explain. But we found something so related to our intention that kinda freaked out. I love the idea of playing with reality, becoming hyper-aware of your environment, and seeing whatās around you in a different light. Even beyond the eerie metaphysical element, itās a really interesting way to explore your environment.
Aug 17, 2023
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This kind of goes hand in hand with the last one. Brian Eno made Oblique Strategies with Peter Schmidt in the 70s. Itās a deck of cards where each card has a vague phrase or aphorism on it, intended to be used while trying to make a decision creatively. But now itās online and in an app so I use them any chance I get. Not just in creative situations. Pretty much any decision. I usually draw three.
Aug 17, 2023