• honesty. i acknowledge the need to lie in order to protect oneself in certain situations. but lying to the people who matter, especially about one's true feelings and intentions, never leads to anything good. relationships based on honesty are the only worthwhile ones.
• authenticity. one should do the things that make sense to them, not chase abstract notions of success. find the aliveness. meaning is immanent.
• vulnerability. the only currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with each other when we are uncool.
• tolerance. let people groove and then blow up. everyone is different. we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.
• equality. equal access. no one is better. collective advancement is the only real advancement.

• When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.
• Each day was only as good as its distractions.
• Once built, the digital environment becomes a monument, an artifact, a site, a landscape, made from human time, labor, and money, made by machines, made of natural resources. Its contents can be otherworldly, yet the digital’s creation remains very much of the world, material culture of the immaterial.
• What seems like nostalgia is more about remembering concepts that we forgot in our ambition to turn software entirely into productivity, pure functionality, and maximizing output
• The sun never sets for those that ride into it.
• That deadpan Mad magazine irreverence that crops up any time talented folks are gi...

• activity cycle: set up the desk with everything i'll need (laptop, pencil, notebook, tissues, water), get comfortable, skim through the material first to get a general idea of what it covers, then read it through, note down concepts to look into further. at the end, go over my notes once more and try to connect & summarise them. tidy up desk
• schedule in times for studying. better than irregular binges
• pomodoro technique. or, more loosely, have set periods of rest and set periods of focus.
• get enough sleep
• keep track of my motivations: get important qualifications, acquire useful skills, build my CV, add to my toolkit for understanding & making sense of the world, feel a sense of accomplishment
• keep organised. make a folder for each cl...

• skater skirts
• flannels
• cotton t-shirts
• oversized sweaters
• wooly socks
• overalls
• button-up dresses
• silk shirts
• lace-up boots
• canvas shoes
• knee-high socks
• boxer shorts
• hair clips
• leg warmers
• converse high tops
• striped shirts
• knee-length skirts
• ankle socks
• patterned underwear

• magic
• control & the lack thereof
• identity and/as oppression
• the interconnectedness (or not) of place, experience and identity
• nostalgia as fuel for the future
• to explore a past that never existed
• weirdness as okay
• the time and space of creative trips

• veronica in heathers
• wanda in barfly
• 90s juliana hatfield
• aggi wright
• jean seberg in breathless
• eva in stranger than paradise
• isabelle grossman in crossing delancey
• harper lee
• susan sontag
• patti smith
• marianne faithfull
• lina bo bardi

• piratas do tietê no. 11
• the official slacker handbook
• ukulele
• tuner shaped like a green alien
• bread-baking manuals
• digital diana camera
• zines
• lost in space complete collection
• back to the future box set
• sulfate-free shampoo
• the simpsons season 1, 6 & 7
• rider-waite, marseille, and thoth tarot decks
• little amulet that contains my soul
• drawing i did on transparent paper when i was 3 or 4
• several editions of every salinger book
• a t-shirt jack got me for christmas that says "bill murray" on times new roman
• a grateful dead t-shirt i got from the lost & found at a hotel i worked, with some...

• stroganoff
• steak and chips
• chicken and chickpea stew
• crazy soup
• pea and sausage soup
• salpicão
• sausage pasta
• chicken soup
• fake "burritos"

add vegetables

• grilled broccoli/cauliflower
• green salad
• carrots with honey and soy sauce (make in batches)
• roasted pumpkin
• grilled aubergine
• green beans
• stir-fried courgette and caramelised onion

• postcardware
• raymond scott
• sense of place
• third place
• contemporary archaeology
• material culture
• imagined community
• conservation and restoration of time-bas...
• rick prelinger
• collective consciousness
• dead media project

• analytical bibliography
• archiving of ephemera
• arts-informed methodologies
• audiovisual preservation
• collage art
  • surrealist assemblage
• collectionism
• commoning
• communalism
  • history of communes
  • theories on pros and cons of communalism
• community building
  • role of libraries (and library-like places, and how do you define a library for the sake of studying them?) in community building
  • third places
• concept theory

• unclear instructions
• weak coffee
• cold coffee
• chatty co-workers
• doctors
• multi-tasking
• getting up late
• face paint
• shiny things
• dangly things
• heat
• countries that claim to be "the happiest in the world"
• craft beer
• half-watched youtube videos
• disney live-action remakes
• lifehacks
• deadlines
• jargon
• roller derby (yeah sorry, it annoys me)

• 12:08 east of bucharest
• abigail's party
• after hours
• american psycho
• back to the future
• before trilogy
• blue in the face
• bridesmaids
• bubble boy
• buffalo 66
• bugsy malone
• clerks
• crumb
• edifício master
• elvira, mistress of the dark
• eyes wide shut
• gates of heaven
• ghost world
• groundhog day
• happiness
• heathers

• another sunny day
• apples in stereo, the
• beat happening
• beatles, the
• belle and sebastian
• bob dylan
• buddy holly
• byrds, the
• caetano veloso
• camera obscura
• cat stevens
• clap your hands say yeah
• clash, the
• crosby, stills and nash
• culture club
• daniel johnston
• desmond dekker
• devo
• echo and the bunnymen
• elton john
• essex green, the

• alfred hitchcock
• eduardo coutinho
• errol morris
• hal hartley
• jim jarmusch
• joão moreira salles
• john hughes
• kevin smith
• luis buñuel
• martin scorsese
• mary harron
• michael lehmann
• mike leigh
• penelope spheeris
• richard linklater
• richard o'brien
• robert zemeckis
• sofia coppola
• steven spielberg
• todd solondz
• tom dicillo