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CHARLI XCX party 4 u (2025) dir. Mitch Ryan Watch me, watch me party on you, yeah. Party on you, party on you, party on..

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Brendon Burton

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“The longing I feel when I think of the past I’ve lived in real time, when I weep over the corpse of my childhood life – this can’t compare to the fervour of my trembling grief as I weep over the non-reality of my dreams’ humble characters, even the minor ones I recall having seen just once in my pseudo-life, while turning a corner in my envisioned world […]. My bitterness over nostalgia’s impotence to revive and resurrect becomes a tearful rage against God, who created impossibilities, when I think about how the friends of my dreams – with whom I’ve shared so much in a make-believe life and with whom I’ve had so many stimulating conversations in imaginary cafés – have never had a space of their own where they could truly exist, independent of my consciousness of them! Oh, the dead past that survives in me and that has never been anywhere but in me! The flowers from the garden of the little country house that never existed except in me! The pine grove, orchards and vegetable plots of the farm that was only a dream of mine! My imaginary excursions, my outings in a countryside that never existed! The trees along the roadside, the pathways, the stones, the rural folk passing by – all of this, which was never more than a dream, is recorded in my memory, where it hurts […].”

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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William Wegman, Collected Rooms, 2018. Oil and postcards on wood panel.

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I picture it soft and I ache!

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in the club begging strangers for forgiveness and proving incapable of articulating what for when asked

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social media needs to add multiple tiers of blocking someone

I should be able to differentiate between "you seem perfectly nice but I do not enjoy seeing your posts," "you view the world through an ideological framework that I find flawed at best and repellent at worst," and, of course, "I Am Killing You With My Mind"

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Centre For Useless Splendour

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Four puppies cuddling. Pompey, 1 century CE.

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Slavoj Zizek, The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema/ Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Film, 2009

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I scratched my inner ear so hard I remembered an ancient dream

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Bob Dylan & Joan Baez, London, England, April 27, 1965.

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Give a man a leaf and he will eat it. Teach a man to leaf and he will go away

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The holy grail of searching through academic literature is coming across a string of publications that are like:

Here’s An Idea. Smith et al. 2016

Terrible Idea; a comment on Smith et al. 2016. Johnson 2016.

You’re Wrong Too; a response to Johnson 2016. Nelson 2016.

Guys Just Stop Fighting, None Of Us Know What’s Going On; a Review of the Current Literature. McBrien 2017.