roberto seña

12 years ago today, Mac DeMarco dropped ‘Salad Days.’⁠ The project was created by a 23-year-old DeMarco alone in a windowless Brooklyn bedroom with no studio. What he did have was a cheap guitar, a deteriorating tape machine, and lots to say. In his 2014 Pitchfork cover story, he put it plainly: "I need to get this sh*t out, you know?" Pitchfork also released a documentary titled ‘Pepperoni Playboy,’ which captured the sessions as they happened.⁠ ⁠ Standout track “Chamber of Reflection" drew from a Freemasonry initiation ritual in which candidates are locked alone in a room to confront their past before moving forward. He told The Editorial Magazine about the connection to his own process: "I kind of felt like I was doing my own chamber of reflections in my room with my music—you get all the demons out and then you go party again no problem." The song was certified Platinum by RIAA in 2022.⁠ ⁠ The aesthetic Mac DeMarco built from broken equipment and cigarette smoke became a blueprint for the generation of indie artists that followed.⁠

Chappell Roan denies sending security guard after young fan: “I'm just gonna tell my half of the story of what happened today with a mother and child who were involved with a security guard who is not my personal security. I didn't even see, I didn't even see a woman and a child, like, I did not. No one came up to me, no one bothered me, like I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel. I did not ask the security guard to go up and talk to this mother and child. I did not. They did not come up to me. They weren't doing anything. It's unfair for security to just assume someone doesn't have good intentions when they have no reason to believe because there's no action even taken. I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children, like, that is crazy. I'm sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming something, that you would do something, and that if you felt uncomfortable, that makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.”

something i've noticed is that people who are new to something — whether it's tailored clothing or catholicism — are often very rigid and dogmatic in their thinking. much more zealous than people who have been into it for a while. not sure what causes this.

the older i get the more i realise happiness is quiet mornings, a clean space, early nights, a safe home and people who don’t drain my energy.