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an old NME column that's the spiritual precursor to Perfectly Imperfect... Morrissey, Mark E. Smith, Lydia Lunch, Madonna, and more!
Mar 21, 2024
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The Place to Buy Kurt Cobain’s Sweater and Truman Capote’s Ashes by Rachel Monroe for the New Yorker
More thoughtful than gruesome in regards to the literal consumption of celebrity IMO. As someone whose dream job is still "pop culture archivist," I ate this tf up
Mar 21, 2024
Unironically one of the most forward-thinking and groundbreaking pieces of cultural criticism of our time. The aesthetic movement he skewered here was still relatively niche then, but it’s evolved and has since been fully absorbed into the mainstream, now the defining consumer lifestyle of the 2020s, where algorithmic social media trends dictate life choices. His observations and insights still ring true, and looking back, the trajectory from then to now feels eerily inevitable… I just feel like he touched on something so raw here. his mind!! I miss him so much!
“The contemporary conformist looks to create a ‘permanent instagram filter’ in their lives/personal space where #NoFilter is necessary. Instead, there is always a source of ‘natural’ light that is meant to properly illuminate every space/photo opportunity.
A picture of a plate.
A picture with your significant other.
This is different than youth culture broadcasting. It is tasteful, deliberate, and shows ‘a life that you are living’, not a culture that you are ‘conforming to.’
Let’s go to a bakery.”
“Dear Lord,
Please free me from my
Contemporary Conformist Leanings/Practices
Set me free.
Dear god, Set Me Free.”
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Adam Moss, the former EIC of New York Magazine, talked to numerous creatives off all different disciples to craft this stunning book about different approaches to the creative process.
Oct 28, 2024
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i’ve done this platonically and romantically recently. and both seem to be working out. i love talking on the phone. we should all talk on the phone more often
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i haven’t done this yet, but my dear friend meredith has been testing it out. it’s working for her. i’m always going on and on about how badly i want a pen pal, so i’ll approach someone with this soon and report back
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if you love a really famous musician or a major studio movie, you can probably find some bizarre promotional item on the internet. they’re often too rare to purchase. but i DID just order a set of madonna russian nesting dolls from the music era, so it can be done
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