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yes but the pop industry is just one facet of music as a transcendental cultural/spiritual/secular meaning-making expression activity as a whole. its a place where both bob dylan a…

Also if I may recommend Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie. Excellent coffee and cakes in a gorgeous setting

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great quote - and the dialectic is that it is only through the most "individuated" individuals that such work can be brought forth (the Frankfurt school would say during Modernity,…

I understand the pragmatism but....it took me around a decade+ of doing crap jobs, that I hated, in order to subsidize the pursuit of "my passion" Its now been 6 years where I have…

Yup, V. Vale certainly exists and sells his RE/Search publications pretty regularly outside of City Lights bookstore in SF! He has a table he set up on the sidewalk and is very fri…

Art; aesthetics give context to human culture that would otherwise be colorless. Carpenters, architects, nurses, doctors, engineers may form the bedrock of society but art, music, …

Oof as someone who makes a living as an artist this article hit hard. There's little to no separation between what I do and who I am. Been thinking about inhabiting character modes…

Furthermore the pigment sepia, a beautiful brown color used historically in inks and paint, is derived by removing the ink sac from the cuttlefish (it shoots ink like a squid). Alt…

It's hard to quantify why Robert Walser's work feels so vital, even today. I think his unique combination of radical inwardness, humor, wonderment, estrangement, cynicism, and the …

Now that I'm making money and am 'successful' doing what I love, I have realized that nothing could have prepared me for the contradictory reality of the making a living off of som…

Interesting counterpoint to say the least: https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2021/07/west-isn-t-d...

Regardless, if Square were to offer legitimate 2FA I would probably feel more comfortable using their debit card for daily life..Can't seem to find any details regarding this on th…