I have noticed that the people who changed my life did not try to change my life. they were simply in the room being themselves with such completeness that the completeness altered me. through proximity alone. the way a fire alters the room simply by being lit inside it.
i don’t like performing christianity because i like to have sex - reckless, loud, with men, with women. i like to drink, i like to smoke, i’d send a baby back to heaven without blinking, i enjoy pleasure, i enjoy vice.
i like freedom to be, and religion doesn’t allow that.
in 1973, an australian catholic nun on a religious mission in singapore recorded a psychedelic and indie-folk, proto-synth pop album inspired by the gospels. it’s one of the most unique records i’ve ever listened to