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a tradition passed down by my mother, breakfast for dinner.
one day, when jared and i venture into the wildnerness of perfect architecture, of all-natural wood & walls of glass, of a loft-sized bed with pillow stairs, of imported food, and of reverse vacations to civilization; i will make this rainbow stack of love to contrast the neutral hues of our life together.
— judith butler, via ‘undoing gender’
the world is a strange place.
we pay $15 for feathers and glue.
we pay $10 for a case of pbr.
we pay $6 for marlboros.
we give plastic.
we are plastic.
we are free wi fi.
we are the www.
we are text after text after text.
we are constantly available,
but we can’t connect.
we are dubstep, techno, electro.
our heartbeats sync with the bass.
we are drugs.
we are the hangover, and the withdrawl.
we are neon.
we are strobe lights.
flashing,
and
bright.
“i put my hand on him. touching him was always so important to me. it was something i lived for. i never could explain why. little, nothing touches. my fingers against his shoulder. the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeezed together on the bus. i couldn’t explain it, but i needed it. sometimes i imagined stitching all of our touches together. how many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?”
jonathan safran foer, via ‘extremely loud & incredibly close’
vs.
“not tickle-tickle, but, like, tickle. you know? sometimes i do it to myself when i’m bored.”
jared ross frankel, via ‘life’
the lakes of canada - the innocence mission
“don’t tell me what cannot be done.
my little mouth, my winter lungs,
don’t tell me what can’t be done.
look for me another time,
give me another day,
i feel that i could change.”
The Cult of Done Manifesto, by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark
- There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
- Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
- There is no editing stage.
- Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
- Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
- The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
- Once you’re done you can throw it away.
- Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
- People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
- Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
- Destruction is a variant of done.
- If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
- Done is the engine of more.
[immediate]
-reconnect
-quit:
-take a 30 minute walk at least 3 nights per week
-drink tea > drink coffee
-soften
[winter break]
-read:
-watch:
-winter hikes
[summer]
-travel to:
-peace corps application
-cook > 2 new meals a week
-read > 25 books
[eventual]
-peace corps
-work as an artist in residence
-move to west coast
-work within the guerilla art community
-purchase:
-take vegetarian / vegan specific culinary classes
-live without a car
-own / operate a coffeehouse that functions as an open, creative space
-learn how to mix records
