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hadn't thought about it until now but yeah, i'm praying on his downfall too

it is interesting which songs whither under those conditions and which ones withstand. i never would've guessed the eagles singing "he said we haven't had that spirit here since... 1969" would still get me after 10,000,000 plays. always just assumed i hated that song.

the radio station at the hardware store i worked at when this came out played the exact same 80s-00s hits every day, but somehow it got in the rotation for a while. so several times per day i'd be minding my own business when that "EEEEEEEEEEEE" would assault my eardrums out of nowhere, and i'd...

in the borges essay quoted in the OP he makes a similar comparison: "Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river"—so he thinks it's impossible to get away from, but maybe also that these radically different timescales, inhuman as they seem, are already a hidden part of us? as much...

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12 likes. resounding silence. an intriguing combination.

(but i know fuck all about this stuff, going to watch dog star man in full later tonight inspired by this thread)

mcluhan claimed that seeing the image on screen changing and intuiting that the subject/eye is moving, which is what you're often "supposed" to infer, is a conditioned response—someone whose viewing isn't conditioned in that way will look at a moving shot of a forest and think the trees are...

deleted. just too much of an eyesore.

feel like maybe you're interpreting that post in a very different way than i intended

(when i read the words "lake minnatonka" certain images flash through my mind, only seems fair than others should share this curse)

yeah sus read the entire post aloud in a restaurant basically at shouting volume, almost died of embarrassment just from being at the same table

technically she's the one who owes me a text atm. refuses to get back to me on the extremely urgent question of what the best teklife releases are.

i'm flattered. feel free to turn any passage of my sophomoric, typo-ridden screed into one of those mallgoth cursive tattoos.

it's here folks!!! the wait for this highly anticipated document is over!! introduction (2022) 1) music as diegesis (2022) a. zones without people b. super hostile vs super docile c. palimpsestscapes d. vanishing visions and unknown memories e. transfigured states...