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Aesthetic + philosophical contemplation, & somehow the crowds are no bother. The closest I come to outward religious observation
Jan 29, 2024
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Jan 23, 2024
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If you just go for 40ish minutes, you get the perfect dose of “inspo-intel” without overdoing it. So many times I’ve felt inspired but then killed it by going for too long because in the end you really can only absorb so much. If you make the visit shorter, you have time to actually go to studio directly after and “work it out” with your enlightened eyeballs. Plus when you treat it like a more frequent activity you start to have a more intimate relationship with the paintings on view. It’s the closest thing to actually owning a masterpiece.
Nov 5, 2023
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great activity for people watching but also, obviously, art watching. tons of cool galleries all over LA u can't go wrong fr. i go solo but i guess u can bring a friend or partner.....feels like a solo activity to me, cuz then ur like, esoteric, and people are like, who is she........
Sep 18, 2024
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Not the "best" movies to go on like an AFI list, but the ones that shaped me:
Blue Velvet - my first (only?) exposure to that level of mordant humor and Freudian menace
American Movie - I watch this at least once a year and feel its rawness and sadness a little more profoundly each time
Gummo - my people, finally represented on screen
Zodiac - captures something no one talks about, which is how fucking *dark* the Bay Area is. A procedural, but less about cops and more about a kind of media terrorism and the propagation of social-psychological contagion
Twin Peaks: FWWM - the first 30 minutes rewired me permanently, never been the same since
Raising Arizona - I grew up in the sticks and this was the first "art film" I ever saw. Watched it enough times to memorize every line
Feb 25, 2024
The elemental, straight dope version of the sound that terrified white conservatives in the '50s. (Also the soundtrack to Ben's Place in Blue Velvet.) I tell Spotify to make a "Honky Tonk Part 1 Radio," the party flows from there, and I get compliments on a well-curated playlist.
Jan 29, 2024