Lorde For Document Journal (May 2025)

jon onstage at the knitting factory in brooklyn, new york on 31 march 2010

photographs by Jessica Krause

Nirvana playing a Halloween dorm party at The Evergreen College, 1988

V nasty, kreayshawn, & lil Debbie

moral orel season 3 episode 1 no children scene changed my brain chemistry i think

White Americans ... are terrified of sensuality and do not any longer understand it. The word “sensual” is not intended to bring to mind quivering dusky maidens or priapic black studs. I am referring to something much simpler and much less fanciful. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. ... Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become. It is this individual uncertainty on the part of white American men and women, this inability to renew themselves at the fountain of their own lives, that makes the discussion, let alone elucidation, of any conundrum—that is, any reality—so supremely difficult. The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. And these attitudes, furthermore, though the person is usually unaware of it (is unaware of so much!), are historical and public attitudes. They do not relate to the present any more than they relate to the person.

--James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1963

Pump Up the Volume (1990) dir. by Allan Moyle

Kurt Cobain painting on the glove box of a Volkswagen Beetle

honestly they were so crazy for this

♡   M I R R O R ,  M I R R O R ,  O N  T H E  W A L L ,  W H O’ S  T H E  F A K E S T  O F  T H E M  A L L ?  ♡ 

— v, from “excerpt from a book i will never write” (via letsbelonelytogetherr)