I consume a lot of great things. Here are my keepsakes
(non-comprehensive) of the especially great things that have resonated with me.
Masksby Shel Silverstein
The Missing Pieceby Shel Silverstein
One Artby Elizabeth Bishop
The Fishby Elizabeth Bishop
The Two-Headed Calfby Laura Gilpin
Sick Goatby Mikko Harvey
The Heat Death of the Universeby Pamela Zoline
The Machine Stopsby E.M. Forster
Story of Your Lifeby Ted Chiang
Burning Chromeby William Gibson
It's Called: Freefallby Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Think Fastby Dominic Fike feat. Weezer
Flimsierby King Krule
LIE DOWNby Saya Gray
Leonard Cohenby boygenius
Hallelujahby Jeff Buckley
warm glowby Hippo Campus
Ballade No. 1 in G Minor Op. 23by Chopin
Ballade No. 4 in F Minor Op. 52by Chopin
Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2by Rachmaninoff
Heart-Shaped Boxby Nirvana
Seigfriedby Frank Ocean
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.from Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Why would you believe in something awful when you could believe in something wonderful?from Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
In romantic relationships, you should always be yourself, because the worst that can happen is something that wasn't going to work out doesn't.from a 2018 lecture by Louis Menand in Humanities 10a (paraphrased)
We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty, and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to make yourself feel nothing, so as not to feel anything — what a waste!from Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.by Ursula K. Le Guin (link)
For what is grief, but love persevering?from WandaVision
When I am served half an egg at a restaurant, I wonder to myself: who has the other half of my egg? Two strangers; living their lives; sharing an egg.(link)
pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors \ so now it's like the point of doing them is to get good at them' and not 'this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives'.(link)
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.from Blade Runner