dancing4heaven

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Just be like the silver back gorilla. There's nothing else I can tell you.

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I made a new friend he's 75 and so cool

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Holy f*** people I just realized I live with a crippling fear of danger lurking around every corner which prevents me from welcoming the wonders into my life. I actually don't have to live like this. I want to trust people.

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Gorilas de Maiz by Javier Bergia (1985)

One of the prettiest voices to me

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Thee Headcoats - The Day I Beat My Father Up (1995)

Billy's got a song for every occasion! Happy Father's Day! B-side to Gun in My Father's Hand.

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"Other people's lives seem much more interesting cuz they ain't mine."

-Modest Mouse, "Other People's Lives"

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"Spotify obsessively talked about how it was leveling the playing field, but there were plenty of anecdotes suggesting otherwise. Certainly something was being leveled—flattened, smoothed out, homogenized. Beneath leveling the playing field is a deeper assumption, too, that artists should want to be operating in a one-size-fits-all model—or that independent artists should want to conform to the norms of the winner-take-all pop star system. Data-driven hit-predicting was previously reserved for the stars; now, it was being presented as an opportunity for artists of all scopes.

So much of the disconnection at the heart of streaming lies in this contradiction: that independent musicians have been convinced to make their livings in a system that was not only designed by the major labels but also prioritizes the type of music engineered and roundtabled for mass-scale success in mind when they write, record, and release music. Not everyone who wants a music career also wants to be a pop star." (page 34)

—Liz Pelly, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

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I know that when I'm writing and I'm laughing that I'm in my true self. It shouldn't be hard. If I'm writing and it's laborious, I'm trying too hard to be something I'm not, or my defenses are going haywire and I need to check in on my reality.

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2012

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everyone's playing defense

looking for threats

scanning for pretense

immaculate rejects

i want to be an artist

and play the guitar

while people slouching over

listen and hate me

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I walked 33 miles today holy shit, one of the hardest things I've ever done