James

Standing outside the paywall, talking shit

Listening to a compilation of Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio. Afternoon summer storm outside. God you wish you were me.

Welcome to Vivisectors week here at James ExhaustData headquarters

Did we ever figure out What Joan She Didion Means ?

Time travelers from 2015 at the coffee shop this morning, expressing their doubts about Bernie Sanders ability to enact change, followed immediately by ranking their favorite episodes of The Office

My kid finally looked at me and said “dad where’s your dad?” and even with years to prepare for that question, I panicked and said “Tennessee” because that’s where we scattered his ashes

Ate a really really good peach at 7:40am all downhill from here

@norabird Gorgeous film on every level. I listen to the soundtrack at least once a month

Last year my family went to the Indy 500 over Memorial Day weekend and on Monday I had us drive to Columbus Indiana to look at the architecture but every building was closed so we just looked in the windows. Anyway I’m finally watching Columbus and it’s exciting to see inside

Japanese officials checking the radiation levels of a smiling William T. Vollmann in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami

@eroscestlavie_x On a roll tonight

Playing exquisite corpse but we’re writing down the digits of a social security number

@nkulw Asking if it’s real or not actually makes him the smartest Barstool guy

Lmfao

I’m fine with the normalization of print-on-demand books because the infrastructure for them has improved dramatically in recent years, and it allows books to stay in circulation forever. There’s not enough warehouse space on earth to perpetually house all of the books ever!

@hudthrob It’s great and I’m glad to see that one get a boost! I’m just weary from 10,000 rounds of Stoner discourse and need to prepare myself for another one in 2-4 weeks

@exhaustdata i bought it because of his recommendation and loved it :)

Everybody say Nice drones, Jean-Luc

Fuck it, ambient set at the bookstore

Immerse me in the scope baby I’m ready

Other places I have located that feeling: —2001: A Space Odyssey —David Wojnarowicz with his lips sewn shut —The End of Evangelion —Twin Peaks: The Return (ep 8) —Ducks, Newburyport —“The Part About The Crimes” —the Internet, before it got compressed into 10 websites

As a child, I came across Bosch’s Garden of Earthly delights in a book, with no preparation for it, and have basically spent my entire life chasing that exact mixture of awe and terror

I do not take it for granted that the Anna Kendrick “when I’m gone” cup song was released into a pre-tiktok world. We got so lucky

@Lilian Also reading it right now. Wondering the same things

Es que ya leyendo lo nuevo de figuras consagradas. Ahí le voy a comentar que me parece que el emperador(a) está desnudo bajo ilusión de las más ricas, elaboradas prendas. Like give me a break.

@kingsbookstore HOPE

@exhaustdata but what if