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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 doesn’t 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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I have a friend who has a membership and brought me as a guest once. the food was fine, basic Italian-American-ish offerings. The movie screening rooms are nice.
Feb 9, 2024
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Grab a couple friends, watch (once per week, together or separately) classics/canonicals you otherwise would never have gotten around to, discuss irl or on Zoom. Feel free to hate, but also feel free to love
There is literally no other way to get yourself to watch Jeanne Dielman, but boy-oh-boy you’ll be happy you did
Jan 30, 2024
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most underrated movie theatre in la. student tickets are $5
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I love living in Texas. I get that maybe it doesn’t have the best reputation as a place for “creatives”, but I think the distance can be very beneficial. I like the open sky, lakes, bbq, and the people I’ve met here. What's that Leonardo DaVinci quote “ Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up”. 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, “a reason for why you do things”, I think leaving that mostly behind has helped a lot personally.
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