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I don’t really go on the internet, it’s like a ouija board, it’s like letting someone into your head, behind your eyes. It lets randoms in.

https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/burial_unedited-transcript

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The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on—only henceforth in my absence. (It's the second of those thoughts: the edition of the newspaper that will come out on the day after I have gone, that is the more distressing.) Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave. Whether it was a hellishly bad party or a party that was perfectly heavenly in every respect, the moment that it became eternal and compulsory would be the precise moment that it began to pall.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3956.Christopher_Hitchens?page=3

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We all have different types of friends, right? There’s the one that’s kind of an asshole but fun to be around once in a while. Fun to get drunk and talk shit with, but you’d never actually call on them for physical or emotional help ’cause they’re just unreliable. (And kind of an asshole.) Or there’s the friend you see once in a while and it’s a nice hangout and you’re always like, “I should spend more time with that person,” but for some reason . . . you don’t. Then there’s that true friend, the one you’d be on the phone with forever. The one that helps you move, or meets you at the hospital, or has a permanent spot on their couch for you just in case you ever need it. Those type of friends are rare, we all know. BUT . . . there’s an even rarer friend: the one that gets you motivated. The one that not only gets themselves going and doing great things but says: we should all get together and do this. And then does it. Adam Yauch was that type of friend. A once-in-a-lifetime type of friend. The friend that makes it happen. The friend that inspires you to go big.

https://www.amazon.com/Beastie-Boys-Book-Michael-Diamond/dp/0812995546/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1589425753&sr=8-1

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You’ve got to be living the life for happy accidents to happen. And you have to be willing to put it all on the line, you have to be willing to go broke, you have to be willing to tumble down the ladder, something professionals are loath to do. Yes, professionals use their years to get more bucks, a bigger office and more status. It’s a game. The truth is art is not a game, but a life. Which is why artists run through the money, they’re not thinking about it.

https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2020/04/30/the-beastie-boys-movie/

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There is no good or bad. It is either compulsive or conscious. Labelling it as good / bad, virtue / sin is conditioning that leads to fear. Seeing it as compulsive or conscious leads to transcendence. You are either a slave of memory or a light of attention

https://twitter.com/vinaychilukuri/status/986646833031036928

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My top 10 albums of 2019

01. RAP - EXPORT 02. CFCF - Liquid Colours 03. Thom Yorke - Anima 04. M83 - DSVII 05. The Chemical Brothers - No Geography 06. TOOL - Fear Inoculum 07. Ryuichi Sakamoto / Alva Noto - Two (Live at Sydney Opera House) 08. Rafael Anton Irissari - Solastalgia 09. Loscil - Equivalents 10. James Blake - Assume Form

2018′s Favs | Spotify Playlist + Extras

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Anyone can become angry – that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not easy.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ok-yell-work-morag-barrett/

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Nobody has a life that worked out the way they wanted it work out,” he told journalist Mark Ellen in 2007. The role of a good song, he continued, was to share that feeling so that “we feel less isolated and we feel part of the great human chain which is really involved with the recognition of defeat”. For Cohen, defeat was the truth of things; the source of all the best jokes; the reason to make art; the crack where the light gets in.

https://clearthis.page/?u=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/nov/11/leonard-cohen-he-knew-things-about-life-and-if-you-listened-you-could-learn?sfns=mo

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Life is suffering. Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated. Truth is the handmaiden of love. Dialogue is the pathway to truth. Humility is recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn. To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small. Speech must be untrammeled so that dialogue can take place; so that we can all humbly learn, so that truth can serve love, so that suffering can be ameliorated

Life is Suffering

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His best era / incredible songs

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Am I here to take your job, Or are you here to give me mine, Or am I here to teach you yours, human?

https://medium.com/cheeky-koans/44-the-robots-koan-cafe185b606b

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Yanni - "Whispers in the Dark" - Los Angeles, CA

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(via Francis Pedraza (@francispedraza) / Twitter)

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When Jesus said, “Forgive them for they know not what they do.” He meant that there is room for everyone to become better, every single one of us, because all of us really, “know not what we do.” We understand ourselves only to the limits of our own personal development as human beings. Yet, we can go further than that. There is always room to evolve, to become better at being human, and to advance the common cause of humanity and civility – this applies not just to you, George, but to me too and, indeed, to all of us

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #52 - Do you get any nasty or annoying comments and questions via The Red Hand Files? I hope not! Thank you so much for this project & your music! : The Red Hand Files

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There are some who would like to believe that the only way you can be strong is by bulldozing those who disagree with you… We forget sometimes that our pre-exiting beliefs have their own force of gravity. Today, certain algorithms pull toward you things that you already know, believe or like. And they push away everything else. Push back! It shouldn’t be this way.

https://observer.com/2019/05/apple-ceo-tim-cook-tulane-2019-commencement-speech-climate-change/