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“Companions in pathos, who barely murmur, go with your lamp spent & return the jewels. A new mystery sings in your bones. Cultivate your legitimate strangeness.” –René Char

“You have to be lost as a young man. You are not really trying unless you are lost.” –Michel Foucault

“The sky has exploded & the stars are raining down on me. I know this is not true, but it is the Truth.” –Michel Foucault on acid, from Foucault in California

You know that the future is bleak when there is a lucrative criminal black market for olive oil. A Most Ridiculous Year. theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…

Bob Dylan has been mixing it up on this potentially last leg of the great Never Ending Tour: Lieber & Stoller's Kansas City & Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away in KC; Paul Butterfield's Born in Chicago & Muddy Waters' 40 Days & 40 NIghts in Chicago; 2 Chuck Berry tunes in STL!

Like.... "Spiritually, it is calling to me. Like, I feel like it would cure my depression to sit on these sidewalks.” nytimes.com/2023/09/15/sty…

"In the dying brain... Parts that are normally dormant become active, and the dying person gains access to their entire consciousness—all your thoughts, all your memories, everything that’s been stored before" scientificamerican.com/article/some-p…

Big Star - Blue Moon youtu.be/Ub9N8IP8hao?si…

The funniest thing about Noah Lyles' comment was: "Don’t get me wrong, I love the U.S.—at times." nypost.com/2023/08/28/nba…

“Anyone who has ever played a piano would really like to hear how it sounds when dropped from a 12th-floor window.” –Tom Waits theguardian.com/music/2023/aug…

"It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult." –Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson

A CLIMATE WARNING FROM THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION nytimes.com/2023/07/29/wor…

Joni Mitchell & Taylor Goldsmith - Come in From the Cold - Joni Mitchell at Newport youtu.be/1b0VCJhbrRc

@cinchel VU

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I might have to attend every screening BACK TO SCHOOL WITH KIRSTEN DUNST @ Metrograph metrograph.com/category/kirst…

You first -> Would You Drink Beer Made from Wastewater? nytimes.com/2023/07/22/bus…

Heat Is the New Covid nytimes.com/2023/07/20/wor…

"It’s especially funny when I call my bank & get put on hold & it’s my own music that I have to listen to" The Jazzy Tune You Heard on Hold? This Part-Time Musician Made It. nytimes.com/2023/07/17/art…

This sgt should be evaluated for being a likely danger to society, a sociopath -> Greenpoint serial litterer was NYPD sergeant gothamist.com/news/greenpoin…

A tennis film by Luca Guadagnino, starring Zendaya? Yes, please youtu.be/MDnVk5jIJr0