February 2012
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“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a god and the only...”
– Paul Kemp, “The Rum Diary” (1998 novel by Hunter S. Thompson)
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“I can see a hundred people a day
who have given up
entirely.”
– Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame - Charles Bukowski
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“I was no conscious chronicler or witness of the events that unfolded in those...”
– Margon Sperver, “The Wolf Gift” (2012 novel by Anne Rice)
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Never real and always true: on depression and... →
psychotherapy:
Writer James Bradley’s wonderful essay on the links, both real and mythologized, between mental health and creativity. A highly recommended read.
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“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
– Haruki Murakami
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“I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and...”
– Reuben Golding, “The Wolf Gift” (2012 novel by Anne Rice)
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Nature vs. Torture
May 19th, 2008. That was the appointed day, and nearly every day thereafter… exercises in masochism, prolongations of the inevitable, living existing under that doom that I know will one day come to pass. That shadow looms over me as intimately as a lover would, constantly entwined. I’ve said it many times before in my confessions, and I’ll say it again; I’m acutely aware of the fact that...
Why We Hide Emotional Pain (Leon F. Seltzer,... →
psychotherapy:
Excerpt (via Psychology Today):
“Not to show vulnerability is typically viewed as a strength, a “demonstration” of character. But in reality the major motives in hiding our emotions are (as I’ve already indicated) fear-based. We’re just afraid to look weak or susceptible to others. Paradoxically, though, unashamedly disclosing our vulnerability can actually be a deliberate...
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II-XVII-MMXII
Strange. That’s the first word that comes to mind as I reflect upon how I burnt the candle at both ends last night. What was supposed to be another night of self-absorption turned out to be something quite different, entertaining an elderly car accident victim and sharing my music with him. Maybe that sounds nice… maybe that paints a pleasant portrait of a young man who can put his own interests...
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Hiding | Savannah — Luma Optica EP (2012)
Luma...
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Summer Sun | Athlete — Black Swan (2009)
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Der Noir: A Dead Summer →
If I were to recommend one song for the initial impression, it’d be Oblivion.
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II-XII-MMXII
Two weeks of neglect. Two weeks of escapism in another city and damn near another state, but I am back and so I write. Muscle memory, that’s all it is. This room is dark save for the artificial light before me. I find light and all that it might reveal to be nothing more than distractions. I am a miserable mess of a human being, riddled with countless contradictions and gradations of right and...