- [...] he takes Goodbye To All That as another example, named after Joan Didion's 1967 essay about leaving New York that was itself named after Robert Graves' 1929 war memoir, described by the author as 'my bitter leave-taking of England'. "that phrase on its own is like 'well that was fun!' 'Thank U, Next!' 'Keep calm and carry on!' (não acredito que ele disse isssooo) there's such a proliferation of these phrases in our society and we shrug them off and find them meaningless, but right now i'm desperate for some kind of platitude that tells me where to go, and how to go about my business in a way that's healthy and sustainable. these phrases are all carried down throughout the generations because they get us through the day." x
- you must love your enemies, serve the poor, give everything away, and put yourself last. this goes against everything the world has taught you, and it goes against your instinct, and it most certainly goes against the laws of free enterprise and corporate interest. money and power and governments are fraudulent and false gods. we must be in the world, not of the world. x
- [...] but i say make amends while you can: take every opportunity to reconcile with those you love or those who've hurt you. it was in our best interest for our mother to abandon us. God bless her for doing that and knowing what she wasn't capable of. x
- [...] my love of God and my relationship with God is fundamental, but its manifestations in my life and the practices of it are constantly changing. i find incredible freedom in my faith. yes, the kingdom of Christianity and the Church has been one of the most destructive forces in history, and there are levels of bastardization of religious beliefs. but the unique thing about Christianity is that it is so amorphous and not reductive to culture or place or anything. it's extremely malleable. x
- everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. i really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes. x
- my work speaks for certain convictions and persuasions, and i don't want to muddle that with any soapboxing or politicizing, but at the same time it's important to provide reminders of what's valuable, just in case we've really sunk so low that we've forgotten the true essence of what it means to be a human and to be humane.
- my work speaks for that, but now it's important for artists and musicians to stop and take stock of what we're saying and doing, and how we're living. does it measure up? is it substantial? does it matter? is it meaningful? whether i like it or not, my role is to communicate my beliefs, my convictions, my stories, and my own personal narrative to a listener. there's a responsibility in that mode of communication. i can no longer be frivolous about what i say, and what sing, and how i speak. x
- i still have personal dread — believe me, i still wake up wondering why am i here and not wanting to get out of bed. but it's so familiar now that i understand it and i can identify it and it doesn't have any persuasion over me anymore, because i figured out how to work with it. but now there's this new thing. the big question: Who are we? but i like that. i like using the plural pronoun now. it feels like I'm growing up. x
- the apocalypse is overplayed, to be honest. in this project's investigation of the solar system (Planetarium), i discovered that the most abundant place known in the universe is right here, right now. our bodies contain more biodiversity than is known to exist anywhere else. we're fucking it all up for sure, but it's all been fucked up before, many times over. and that's the strength and the power of this beautiful abundant space craft we live on called Earth. she's a real survivalist, and we're lucky to be on her team, in spite of our worst intentions. in this political climate it is easy to start feeling claustrophobic, but that's just a sensation, it's not reality. x
jul 25 2020 ∞
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