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Getting there is half the fun? No, it makes you wish you never left.
But once you’ve left behind the anguished purgatory of the plane, with its environmental guilt, dehydration, viral anxiety, literal butthurt, and inescapable vortex of human sounds and smells, you can be wherever you are.
After, that is, you pass through the gauntlet of physical and moral tests that constitute the airport and then endure the inevitable car ride that extends your agony in a miniature simulacrum of the flight. But then, finally, like primitive man in his edenic state, you are once again free - free! - to enjoy the bounty that is our birthright as thinking, feeling organisms.
Until you have to get on the plane again - where a part of you will always remain, trapped, suffering, tainting your enjoyment with the knowledge that freedom as a concept can only exist in the context of a larger captivity.
But try to have fun anyway!
Apr 20, 2024
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Kinda comfy feeling you get to wait with others read your book and play on your phone. kinda exhausting especially connecting flights but feels like your on an adventure:))
Feb 4, 2024
The cold wind on my face, blown in from the slit of the taxi window is bliss — a silver lining that smells like Paris and freedom from the stale plane air. My head rests in the nook between the car seat and window bathing in it.
Nov 11, 2024
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Life is so dang busy. When you're on a plane, it's like, "oh, I have no internet and I can't move from this spot from several hours. I guess I am forced to do whatever I want." And then you play video games or read a book or draw or sleep!!! feels to good to be forced to do whatever you want, because I won't allow myself to do it otherwise!!
Feb 27, 2025
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I'm leaving for Vegas tonight to see the final performance of their latest residency, so I spent all week re-listening to all of their albums on vinyl. Apparently when you crack open my crusty shell, the 13-year old version is still intact within, gobsmacked by how seriously a bunch of adults can pursue their silliness.
I spent about five minutes worrying that I'd be disappointed seeing them again now that they (and I) are so old, but then I told myself to shut up. “They’re so over the hill” is the least B-52s sentiment imaginable. Their edginess was never dependent upon youth. They weren't exactly rebels, but they gloried in pillaging what’s old and awkward for the creation of something new and cool that embraces squareness rather than mocking it. What they want - what they’ve always wanted - is for people to have FUN, and they’re entirely non-judgmental about how you want to do it (unless it involves putting anyone down, in which case, no thanks). It’s a spirit that makes just as much sense old as it does young. As a blueprint for a culture, you could hardly do better. And I guess that’s why they’ve always been my favorites - because I still wistfully believe that if everyone shared their courage, spirit, and humor, this would be a better world.
Anyway, "Song for a Future Generation" is one of the greatest things ever committed to video.
Apr 19, 2024
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Film Forum is the OG but Metrograph is younger and hungrier, with a more diverse slate of films and an emphasis on rediscovered or neglected classics. Great atmosphere too, with a restaurant and bookstore. you can’t go wrong!
Apr 22, 2024
Bugs is the great American hero, but Daffy has the most range. From his psychopathic hoo-hoo-hoo-HOO origins to his mature later incarnation as a petty, grasping striver with delusions of grandeur, he covers a broad gamut of the human experience. His desperate ambition slots so wonderfully into an array of genre roles that elevate him just to take him down: Robin Hood, Duck Dodgers, the Scarlet Pumpernickel… Bugs is who we wish we could be, but Daffy is who we are.
Apr 21, 2024