"...all manner of fanatics thrived in the contemporary chaos, exploiting the frightening complexity of the age to hawk their simplistic narratives, their archaic binaries that brooked no ambiguity"
"My life sounds like a Penderecki tune," she said.
"I like Penderecki," he said.
"But I love him because so much of modern philosophy or commentary or culture just seems to be strange adult individuals making shit up. None of it has any substance or truth, like none of it. Even the ones who seem to be contrarians, you know what I’m talking about? There’s so many of these talking heads and it’s all just…a waste of life. It’s just like pretentious like political or self-help goofballism."
"I’m a Gen-Xer who unapologetically loves postmodern shit like nonlinear stories and blog post series posted out of order"
daniel.industries/2024/01/03/2023-in-review-postscript/
I also just reworked my archive and category indexes. It was a journey.
I've loved this Elliott Smith cover by Chris Garneau since forever. "Recorded by Duncan Sheik" was unexpected new detail I learned today.
chrisgarneau.bandcamp.com/track/between-the-bars-elliott-smith-cover
"Noble had an astral plane experience with Balisarius that somehow revived him"
The worst part of a bad movie. If you're going to bring your antagonist back to life to milk a property, at least make it believable.
The @mike blog by @mikehaynes@social.lol is _gorgeous_
"Yesterday I experienced two failures trying to do relatively non-consequential activities. It felt like a microcosm of my 2023."
Dan Wilson, "What a Year for a New Year" (2002)
