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What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling all round the sun. What a beautiful dream that could flash on the screen in a blink of an eye and be gone from me. Let me hold it close and keep it here with me. And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young, let us lay in the sun and LIST every beautiful thing we see.

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I can only have authentic experiences if I don’t post pictures about it. And, this is a REMINDER regarding "like-based scrolling-feed" social media. The introduction of “scrolling,” and “likes,” on social media (by big tech) changed human psychology (we don't use those features here). They will NEVER stop psycho-engineering to make social media as addictive as possible. The disease is in our collective consciousness. The degradation of truth, humility, and so on. I feel it growing within myself. Unbridled capitalism brought the world slavery; modern society will not be different.

Destroy what destroys you...

THOUGHTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA:

  • I do not want to pull people out of their lives to look at mine.
  • Social media algorithms flatten culture and art, creating cookie cutter content that sells and pleases the algorithm (versu...
oct 23 2016 ∞
jan 18 2025 +
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  • David Bowie (surprise) jumping on stage at an Arcade Fire show in Central Park.
  • Walking down the back stairs of the Fillmore into fans with Rivers Cuomo holding my hand.
  • Meeting Michael Stipe in the LA canals to be in REM's music video for "Drive."
  • Late night after hours dancing with friends at mile high club.
  • Singing and dancing in my car seat on road trips.
  • Singing Molly's part in Annie at OC fair in 5th grade.
  • Meeting Kathleen and Adam.
  • Singing Weezer songs in the basement with Rob on drums and Joe on guitar.
  • Working out Tower Records and Tower Video and playing my favorite movies on the tv screens.
  • Meeting Sting backstage.
  • Going on tour and all the fun warehouse p...
aug 23 2011 ∞
feb 20 2025 +
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To be played upon my death: Dark Lolita

  • “I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return” - Frida Kahlo
  • "She has now gone, from this unhappy planet, with all the carnivores, and the destructors on it..." - The Smiths
  • "Love, peace and harmony. Very nice. Very nice. But maybe in the next world." - The Smiths
  • "Screaming from beneath the waves." - Echo and the Bunnymen
  • "You know, the world was made for men." — Belle and Sebastian
  • She lived years in a period of silent indignation.
  • I was here for the body experience. And now I'm done.
  • "Thought there was love in everything and everyone. You're so naive." — Belle and Sebastian
  • "Sometimes I feel so happy. Sometimes I f...
may 1 2022 ∞
feb 18 2025 +
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  • Abandoned Book Depository, Detroit
  • African Party - remote office building, Paris
  • Alcatraz Prison, San Francisco
  • Audium, San Francisco
  • Basilica Cistern --underground water palace 532bc: Istanbul, Turkey
  • Bat Flight Program, Carlsbad Caverns
  • Being John Grisham and David Baldacci guests at his book fair in Florida
  • Berber Camp, Sahara Desert
  • Berghain, exclusive club in Berlin, partied all night
  • Blue Grotto, Capri Island
  • Brooklyn Underground tour (old subway lines beneath the city)
  • Bus Station, out in the middle of Turkey --craziest I've ever seen
  • Cagaloglu Hamami Bath House, Istanbul
  • Carla's apartment on the Grand Canal, Venice
oct 2 2006 ∞
mar 14 2025 +
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  • “Woke culture is literally just having empathy. That’s it. Empathy.”
  • “There is a bird and a stone in your body. Your job is not to kill the bird with the stone.” - Victoria Chang
  • "Meat symbolizes fear pain and death. I don't eat it." -Dr. Jane Goodall
  • "If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people." - Chris Walken
  • "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." - F. Douglass
  • "I am blind. It is a strange blindness. It is not a darkness, not a blackness, not an absence of light. Rather, I go through life as if beneath a shroud. I could see the sky, the earth, the trees, the animals, all the flora and fauna, without deviation, without distortion or diversion. But mankind appears to me, grotesque, vil...
sep 6 2008 ∞
jan 28 2025 +
mar 6 2024 ∞
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may 21 2010 ∞
mar 6 2024 +