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#NewMusicFriday My jazz fusion album "Blink Twice" is out today, and I think it's really good! jacksonwelchner.bandcamp.com/album/blink-tw…

Albert Camus was right

i don't know how to flirt, I told her she's a pillar of the community

Songs of the City covering Omhouse - Long Way Around

Rumi said “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” Clarity doesn't come before action. It comes from action.

INEFFICIENCY AND FRICTION IS A BIG PART OF THINKING.

"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities." - Ursula K. Le Guin

“Practice any art… no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.” - McKellen reciting Vonnegut

how lovely that the more you trust your intuition, your most inarticulable self, the more trustable it becomes for you. the more you take your own side the more worthy it is to take

“To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.” ―Mark Rothko

In order for me to write poetry that isn't political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, The warplanes must be silent. - Marwan Makhoul

looking down from the railpath after declaring a bloor and lansdowne girl summer

a man who can sit on a porch and watch the sky change color without reaching for his phone has won a war most do not know they are fighting.

You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.

Never apologize for being obsessed. Read all day. Work all night. Run for hours. Forget time exists. Be everywhere, but be a ghost. Turn off the world and create your own. Let craft become compulsion. Positive obsession is a gift, disguised as a curse.

nobody talks about how genuinely wild music is at a fundamental level. an instrument disturbs air molecules. those molecules cross a room and reach your ear. your ear transforms that into electricity. that electricity shifts your consciousness. and without any coordination, without any shared culture or language, every single human society that has ever existed found their way to this. that is one of the most profound things about being human.

this banger from norm

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.” ―T.S. Eliot

i'm going to remember this person forever oh my