No one I've ever met likes art like my dad does. By this I don't mean that he likes art more than anyone else I've ever met, because while he's pretty damn into it, he can't hold a candle to some of the art students I awkwardly hang around at school. And I don't mean he knows more about it than most folks, because while he takes an active interest ( Read more... )

I'm starting to wonder what permanence feels like ( Read more... )

More than once since graduating high school (and sometimes even before), I have laid awake at night and wondered for long, long hours whether I might better serve the world and myself by turning my back on law school and pelting headlong for the countryside and not even looking back. More than once I've fallen asleep thinking of the good weariness ( Read more... )

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So this is pretty much my favorite piece of music right now. I think I've listened to it close to twenty times in the past few weeks. It is my background music for everything, particularly my folklore project, which is centered around the same Till Eulenspiegel named in the ( Read more... )

So yesterday I was talking to my sister online. We weren't chatting about anything in particular, just catching up; and then she said, suddenly, that she wanted to leave the Catholic Church ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about happiness a lot lately, in the moments where my mind wanders in class, in the dark of my bedroom before my eyes adjust, on the 30-minute walk home between the pines by the law college. I think it must be because right now, I'm happy. I'm really happy ( Read more... )

so er I just had a conversation with Someone entirely in .gifs and it... it needs to be somewhere for posterity, and here is as good as anywhere

please disregard us

never ask what this conversation was about

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So 99% of the people I know have joined the mass exodus to Dreamwidth and no one's going to read this, and anyway it's pretty dumb for being the first update in three months or something and this journal's probably not going to stay on LJ much longer anyway, but I have to get this one out because music! What do I even post about anymore ( Read more... )

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So this is a video in which a deaf percussionist explains how to listen to music and then you never listen to anything the same way ever again.It's long, yeah, I know. But I have just had an outlook changed, and I am kind of still reeling. This is one of the most amazing talks about performance theory and the way in which humans listen to music ( Read more... )

I just got out of Inni. It's Sigur Rós's concert film, and basically it's just 75 minutes of concert footage, shot at exciting angles in grainy pretentious unnecessary black-and-white, interspersed with short clips of the band going about various activities, ranging from riding around parking lots on tiny bicycles to enjoying an awkward silence in ( Read more... )