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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I’m still reckoning with my feelings of despair in the wake of the Election. But despite all the darkness that I’m currently feeling, I wanted to put out a message of light:

It is our job as artists, creators, and thinkers to let the light in. To en-light-en. It is also our job to make sure that our work and our light is reaching beyond our bubbles. Cities that attract artists are like bubbles, and one of the things that has become increasingly clear in the past 48 hours is how much that isn’t helping our country at-large. We flock to cities because they protect us. They are big, colorful, iridescent places full of life, culture and they typically promote a more invested protection of our basic human rights. We inhabit these places both as a comfort, and as a defense mechanism.

I love these beautiful swirling rainbows, but they need to be popped. Popping the bubble that surrounds culture & community in our metropolitan safe spaces allows its beauty to ooze into the rest of America (and the world), and into the places that so desperately need to see this color and light. I want to work to dismantle the hierarchies that disillusion outsiders from thinking that art is only for pretentious city folk, and that enlightenment is a privilege. Art is for everyone, and its power is almighty. I am empowered by art’s ability to enrich our lives and our minds, and I want us to work to pop the bubble that surrounds it and keeps it locked away from those who maybe need it the most.

Pop the bubble; let it ooze. Let the light in, and shine your light out. I know it’s hard when we’re facing a dark opposition, but I urge you to not let this darkness put out the light in you.

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” - Leonard Cohen

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Some young child: *screaming outside* Me with no context: Girl me too

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Interviewer: Did you miss each other? Alex: We’ve seen each other sufficiently. I mean there’s been a month, maybe two-month long…What would you say the max is? Miles: Six weeks, two months, maybe. When I was on tour in Europe and Alex was on tour doin’ AM, it probably did go more. I lied, just then. Alex: There’s a few moments when you think… Starin’ out the balcony at the moon, wonderin’ where is he, what is he doin’ now, who’s he kissin’.

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When did you decide, and how did you decide to form the band?

The Last Shadow Puppets on The Late Late Show with James Corden | 19.04.2016

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She never lies Her new disguise Is butterflies

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Places where reality is a bit altered:

• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet

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Didn’t expect that.

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Brody Dalle @ Bowery Ballroom (7.22.14)

Photo by Alejandra Robles

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Brody Dalle by Alejandra Robles

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Alexis Krauss for SOMA Magazine

Photographer: Sergio Kurhajec

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e.e. cummings

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