Ayo Edebiri
Jun 19, 2023 BY
@ayo🍊
Travel is weird on the body. I'm of course, so grateful to be a modern independent woman or whatever but no one talks about how feminism means you're always fighting off a little cold...I really hate swallowing pills so I stand by these swabs when I'm about to get sick. *Ayo's Note: Right before I sent this off, I consulted a friend about my list...turns out the guy who created this was kind of insane and these might not work and might even? damage my nerve receptors xo. That is what is so rock and roll about me....I'm addicted to danger (I'm not).
Jun 19, 2023
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The world's tough place. There's lots of movies I want to see and because of the dumbest corporate reasons, lots of times they're unavailable or only available to buy on a streaming service. At that point I'd rather just get a blu-ray (s/o walmart dot com and the kino lorber sale...) but if I can't find one, or if it's $50, I'll straight up just see if it's avail to watch on youtube or through the internet archive and a lot of times it is. The quality might not be great, but that's okay. It's important to not get what you want sometimes in life. (Elaine May's A New Leaf, Scorsese's Kundun, Todd Solondz' Happiness, Akira Kuroswa's Dreams, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth etc. etc.)
Jun 19, 2023
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so nice finishing something or having a friend finish something and then swapping that book. sharing things with your loved ones? making memories tactile? it's nice! (some that I've given or received that I've loved as of late: why fish don't exist - lulu miller, clarice lispector - an apprenticeship, how to do nothing - jenny odell, stay true - hua hsu)
Jun 19, 2023
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I valued the idea of being low maintenance and chill for so long and I don't know if it's been living in LA and or being around more rich people but I realized recently that it is all a lie. every single person that is effortlessly “just being themselves” is lying. They are getting acupuncture and lymphatic drainage and taking pilates and yoga 3 times a week and getting facials and layering $90 serums and creams on top of their face and going to erewhon 80 times a day to get probiotic water that does not exist. they are a project. and guess what? so am I! sometimes it's nice.
Jun 19, 2023
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this, to me, is the pinnacle of joy, love and artistic expression. Michael Jeter is and was a genius. I have no idea how he can do the things he does with his body here
Jun 19, 2023
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I love canned food and tinned fish. I used to have such an aversion to the stuff as a kid but now I'm all in again. Lots of faves, but I keep returning to these fried mussels. My favorite way as of late is on a thick slab of sourdough, with some miso shallot butter (sorry....) and a lil parm, hot sauce, and chives on top. heaven, believe me!
Jun 19, 2023
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being away from home so much for work makes you sort of crave comforting things, and I keep returning to old Agatha Christie TV shows like Ms. Marple and David Suchet's Poirot. I also love Agatha Christie herself, because was very much for the drama. Like, she pretended to disappear for 10 days because she was mad at her husband and then lied about it. good for you, girl!
Jun 19, 2023
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I love making coffee in my moka pot and if I travel for work, I can bring it with me and try beans from new places. The sound of the espresso bubbling inside is weirdly centering. Morning routines work! I make a pretty decent flat white. If I'm feeling absolutely insane? affogato for dessert. World's my oyster.
Jun 19, 2023
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right now as I'm writing this, new york is caked in a freaky orange smog and the world is proverbially "giving" "apocalypse vibes." it's hard not to feel an underlying sense of doom and dread lurking in everything, even the fun things (well the world is ending, so I might as well do what I want, etc. etc.). my whole thing as of late is that I'm sort of over that...I read Recapture the Rapture by Jamie Wheal recently which gets into a lot of these feelings (s/o the meta crisis) and one of his pitches for the start of a solution is something he calls "radical hope." I of course do not know if it will work but I think it's far more interesting than ironic detachment because you're actually not brave enough to care about anything
Jun 19, 2023
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something unique about me is that I need to be on my phone less. this app has been the most helpful deterrent for some reason...don't want to spoil how but every time I want to open instagram, for example, I have to do something humiliating like "exercise patience."
Jun 19, 2023