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BRIAN ENO’S DIARY: “A YEAR WITH SWOLLEN APPENDICES”

My friend Richard Turley turned me onto this book in April or so. I’ve been reading it in correlation to whatever the day is. I’m grounded enough in reality to know that next to This Legend, I’m a drop in the bucket. BUT— I am delusional enough to think that in diligently reading his diary, I am able to channel the spirit and the honor with which he lives and creates. My other main takeaways have been that he loves porn and big tits. (Nice.)

@madelinequinn

Dec 16, 2021

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Flyboy in the buttermilk by greg tate

Fabulous, brilliant and fun essays by one of the great culture writers. Essays on Miles Davis, George Clinton, Bad Brains, many more

@caasi

Mar 11, 2024

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this feature about the shins i wrote for magnet

Hard to believe it's nearly twenty years old now. Three things stand out for me, reading it again today. Took like 3 months of reporting, or so, to get it all done. 1) The Courtney Love vignette from the Shins' show at the Hollywood Bowl (it was all very Ab Fab and unintentionally hilarious). She is every bit the piece of work she was described to be. 2) James was living in a house in Portland, OR that Elliott Smith used to live in. We smoked pot in the basement and he showed me the washer/dryer that was basically where Elliott four-tracked the "Roman Candle" album. 3) He had a guitar hanging in his home studio that had "You'll be Dead" spray painted on it -- a line from Star Wars (I think his brother, an artist I worked with at Starbucks, did that). I used to have a photo of that but IDK what happened to it. It was a fun era to be writing about rock music.

@coreydubrowa

Apr 5, 2024

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kill your posting anxiety

Posting doesn’t necessarily reflect delusions of grandeur about one’s influence. it’s a simple, communicative act. give yourself some credit, trust social instincts. If people had phones at any time in human history- they’d be using them.

@evanlaffer

Jan 19, 2024

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the 3 star system ★★★

Ranking things out of three (no half stars, 0 permissible) is a valuable exercise. The limitations force one to reckon with the boundaries of language and the necessity of a respect for nuance. One out of three could be pretty bad..on the other hand, it's still pretty good.

@evanlaffer

Jan 21, 2024

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using “aesthetic” properly

avoid sounding like a fool. nothing is “so aesthetic“ it doesn’t work that way

@evanlaffer

Feb 5, 2024