December 2011
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Currently reading The Doors of Perception. My first and only new year’s resolution is to take mescaline. Maybe see a new country.
Dec 31st
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary. - Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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I love to read. It keeps the noise of the world at bay. - Art Garfunkel
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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I’m generally not caught up with music but this year was full of consistently great releases. First time I’ve ever done this but this was 2011: 1. This Will Destroy You – Tunnel Blanket 2. Beirut – The Rip Tide 3. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – S/T 4. Iron and Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean 5. Algernon Cadwallader – Parrot Flies 6. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972 7. La Dispute – Wildlife 8. Zola...
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? - Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the...
Dec 14th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive, ‘I don’t understand this person so they’re crazy.’ It’s bullshit. Those people are not crazy they’re strong people. Maybe that environment is a little sick. - Dave Chappelle
Dec 2nd
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