"Beautiful Losers", Leonard Cohen

birthdays are so much fun because my brain is always like okay u have three options: cry, panic attack or feel numb and unreal the whole day

Emitt on the chair, 2001 by Lucy Culliton, 1966-

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i'm kinda mad that i'm like right at the cut off point in terms of intelligence like...if i was just a tiny bit stupider i would actually be able to enjoy life but unfortunately my brain is big enough to have complex thoughts and question things

asking for help at work feels like being stabbed 400 times then getting run over by three trucks and shot like one thousand times

The Drowned, by Josef Manés (1867).

“the algorithm only shows us _____” so stop looking at the algorithm. you don't need it. go to a thrift store and flip through some magazines from the 1980s. go read a random book that’s no longer in print on the internet archive. go to a museum and walk around until you see an artwork you don’t recognize. go get a cookbook from the library and make a recipe you've never tried. go listen to the radio. go talk to people in real life. go write a poem or a song and don't show anybody. go take a walk. you are not confined to your online content feed. you never have been!!!!!!!

Lindau, Bodensee, 08/24

just to prove that I also go on vacation, once in a blue moon :-)

shot with Kodak Color Plus 200 on my trusty old Revue BF3, a cheap late 90s point and shoot camera that i found in my mom's basement four years ago.

i will always always without a doubt prefer film over digital. not because i'm snobby but because I'm old and it makes me feel warm and cozy and reminds of a time when I perceived the world differently.

my two cents on the desire unleash tracklist...i want to know why we need multiple english/korean versions of a song on an album. i really don't like that kpop does this bc then u have like (in this case) 2x2 versions of the same song on the album. i'd rather have a shorter mini album and a single album for the english versions of the songs bc it messes with cohesion. they already put so much effort into building up the aesthetics and tone of the album and the tracklisting kinda just puts a dent in that. like ik kpop is not the place to look for cohesion in album tracklisting but they did it with dark blood so why not here?? i had the same pet peeve with orange blood, which has such good tracks but the tracklisting takes me out of the immersion cause it has 3 (3!!!) versions of sweet venom on it lol

anyway i'm still super excited for the new songs!

Illustrations for Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of Waves | Shiosai | 潮騒, by Lâm Tùng Nguyễn.

Favorite Photos Friday

Misty mountain hike in Mount Rainier National Park