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This was always an unholy project: the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real, and so on and so on.

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

I’m waiting for IKEA and Lego to merge into the mega corporation that runs our lives. It will be a prison of our own making.

[Bill Pourquoimec @BillPourquoimec]

Brian Eno’s graphic notation for Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1979)

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@WhatHoARat @teachrobotslove Stoicism is AA for addicts of morality

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Also it goes without saying this is not supposed be a free market labour value deal. Pay the kids well, this is getting your money’s worth in community building and having teenagers be able to afford to pursue hobbies and fulfillment without having to beg for money. If the kid mows your lawn or washes your cars give him enough money to take his girlfriend to the movies or something.

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

@MTClassical @matthenryyoung The move is you hire the first kid for the job he is offering as a reward for being the first to ask but offer the other kids odd jobs if they want them.

“Your buddy beat you to it on mowing the lawn but do you want to wash the cars once a week?”

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

@LeProjetSerret @WhatHoARat Okay so your description matches very well with pre-poptimism view of popular music. I might even be inclined to say that the Flying Burrito Brothers 2 albums plus Gram Parsons 2 albums are the “writers” albums to listen to compared to the stone’s “readers” albums

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

If you haven’t listened to these as full albums you are cheating yourself of the rich cultural heritage that is rock and roll.

[What Ho…A Rat!! @WhatHoARat]

Beggars Banquet to Exile on Main St is one of the most perfect 4 album runs in all of rock and roll.

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

It was a weird thing, there were definitely popular bands and many of us successfully managed to grow to levels of achievement that was unexpected but your original hipster fans almost resented you for growing. The mysterious element of discovering a band helped alot of us for sure but it was not an ideal time to be a musician

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

The hipster scene sucked for musicians becuase no one wanted to see your band become popular rather than being the best band they heard playing to 50 people that were all too cool to tell anyone to buy the album because you were the band only they were cool enough to know about

[Kyle Kushblasta @SkinnyTuna]

the weirdest thing about being a lifelong pretentious hipster who only likes music no one has heard of is that its a completely lost art now. every time theres a new cool band everyone i know is immediately in love with the new cool band. whered the cynical aversion go

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

@200PoundsOfSin “Call it something I ate” Orin incandeza

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Perhaps my most satisfying interaction in the circle of hell that we inhabit

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@wizard_waterloo @MTClassical I still think Moby Dick is one of the greatest works of man I just can’t compare it to the artistry of a great work written in a language I cannot read

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

I re-read Moby dick recently as my treasured mutual @MTClassical was posting about it and I would agree with you save for the fact that I can’t read Tolstoy in the language it was written in. I feel that if you read Tolstoy in Russian and read Melville in Russian translation you might come to the exact opposite conclusion. I, however, lack the ability to verify this but still love translated stories. In fact I just love stories and the power they have

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

@200PoundsOfSin It is a reference to a book that broaches these topic. I was not making a statement of fact but rather making and inside joke

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

@WayneOWastes This is true though I might say that hipsters are a blight upon the dilettante who functioned as you described. Refined taste gave way to gatekeepers who believed that exclusivity was a social marker of taste

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

This is a slimzim respector account, talent paired with dedication must not be taken for granted. The dismal state of the arts at this moment is a representation of the way in which society rewards envy and vitriol over capability and talent and dedication. Society has lost the sense to see that nothing great is ever free and instead feels the need to discount what is great as privilege through province. The godless wish to condemn virtue and grace. You are an unfortunate victim of a holy war

[Travis Lipski @TravisLipski]

It's funny but it really was easier, in many ways, to face certain death in a clear cut mission vs taking a meaningless job in an increasingly bizarro, mentally ill society run by psychotically deranged people.

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

@TravisLipski Remember when you had something worth dying for vs I have to impress HR to get through this performance improvement plan

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

I implore you all, once again, to watch “Noble House”

[Video Nasties🇵🇲 @53gaDr3amca5t]

I wish cities all looked like 80s Hong Kong.

[Marquee Facade @lacancerous]

@gwennypaltry Careful what you wish for. You’re about to see a bunch of dudes with completely shaved eyebrows because they don’t understand 2 brows one face