Since I have been alive people have said rock n roll is a living corpse, and maybe it is 99 out of 100 times.
What is nostalgia’s purpose and why do we hold onto it so tightly even though it’s just a blank mask that hides us not only from the world but ourselves? Lol I dunno, dude.
If you can’t feel pain, you lose your capacity for pleasure.
I’m a big believer in the power of the placebo effect, and the times when I’ve been deeply engaged in a practice have been by far the happiest in my life.
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It’s like if Mad Max: Fury Road didn’t have all those kinky outfits so you could talk about it with grandpa.
If he can paint us so much joy among the pessimism, maybe we can build these lush and beautiful worlds in our own imaginations.
I’m tired of talking about Hayao Miyazaki, yet I can’t bring myself to stop talking about Hayao Miyazaki, and I think that I’ve become an accidental evangelist.
The name I go by is not the one that I was born with, but it’s not one I chose.
