Me When I Get Depressed Every Summer And Its Summer And Im Now Depressed:

Quick reminder that it's always morally correct to punch nazis.

“Go outside” they said. “You’ll enjoy the fresh air” they said. Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.

TAG GAME (thank you so much to @booksandabeer for including me, I really appreciated this!🫶🏻🥂):

Favorite color: Blue in general, but mostly deep, dark blues, and not the warm shades of it either. (I also love the International Klein Blue @booksandabeer mentioned, so so gorgeous!)

Last song I listened to: My Blue Heaven by Gene Austin

Last book I read: the last book I’ve read of is “Asimov’s Guide to Science”, I haven’t picked it up in days, though. The last thing I finished, however, was a book about Kazimir Malevich (“Malevich, Life and Work” by Jeanott Simmen). But god I haven’t finished anything in weeks. I need to fix that.

Last movie: Shame (2011). I really liked it!

Last TV show: Agatha All Along

Sweet/savory/spicy: all 3 for me as well!

Relationship status: happily single.

Last thing I googled: “How to use chopsticks” and I still can’t do it in the proper way.

Looking forward to: I’m sending a friend my own baked goods one of these days and I’m looking forward to hear from them about it!

Current obsessions: I’ve been falling back into the Evanstan rabbit hole lately.

Tagging (with zero pressure, please feel free to ignore this) the lovely: @musette22 @soliddarrity, @thisonesatellite and @buckrogers 🤎

snoopy of the day

Nonduality is so simple, but it can never be understood by an individual, which is only a sense of being someone and therefore doesn’t understand anything at all. A sense of self can’t do anything because it’s not actually a thing with its own existence. Instead, understanding belongs to awareness, consciousness, being, or whatever you’d like to name it—literally, whatever seems to stand under all appearance of phenomena. And this “pure consciousness” is the best candidate for being our Self—not the bundle of thoughts and sensations we normally take ourselves to be.

Direct pointing can sound obtuse, like you’re holding back the punchline, asserting claims without proof, or making word salad. But direct pointing is pointing to what is always immediate, always here, always available—the you in which “you” appear and which precedes all concepts.

Conceptual thought can only produce a conceptual facsimile of understanding. Look directly. You are not and never were the self you have always believed yourself to be (or have at least believed since around the time you were two years old).

Awareness can see that it’s not the mind, not the body, and not the person. And yet the sense of being a person seems to stick around and still seems to be real even after the initial recognition of its unreality. That’s just how it seems to work.

(Sorry to use “seems” so much, but much is only seemingly so.)

But if a person persists in being exposed to concepts that point beyond the conceptual, then it seems like there’s the potential for the “body-mind system” to do something different. I.e., when the conditions are right, the mind gradually stops layering the sense of doership/ownership on everything that seems to happen.

Eventually the recognition of non-doership/non-ownership can “stabilize” and become the default mode of living for what seems to be an individual. And eventually for everyone, the person dies for good—either when the body dies or allegedly, in the case of enlightenment, before the body dies.

Nonduality is the most liberating shit on offer. Continue to go back to it and when you’re ripe for awakening, the person will be exposed as being empty and the emptiness will be exposed as being you. And that will change everything without changing a thing.

Or don’t think about nonduality at all. That’s fine too. Whatever happens, this is just this, exactly as it is.

Is it anxiety or is it intuition???

Freja Beha Erichsen for UK Vogue, May 2006 photographed by Javier Vallhonrat

a few great films that are free on the internet archive

in decent quality too!

here is the archive collection of these films so you can favorite on there/save if desired.

links below

black girl (1966) dir. ousmane sembene

the battle of algiers (1966) dir. gillo pontecorvo

paris, texas (1984) dir. wim wenders

desert hearts (1985) dir. donna deitch

harold and maude (1973) dir. hal ashby

los olvidados (1952) dir. luis bunuel

walkabout (1971) dir. nicolas roag

rope (1948) dir alfred hitchcock

freaks (1932) dir. tod browning

frankenstein (1931) dir. james whale

sunset boulevard (1950) dir billy wilder

fantastic planet (1973) dir. rené laloux

jeanne dielman (1975) dir. chantal akerman

the color of pomegranates (1969) dir. sergei parajanov

all about eve (1950) dir. joseph l. mankiewicz

gilda (1946) dir. charles vidor

the night of the hunter (1950) dir. charles laughton

the invisible man (1931) dir. james whale

COLLECTION of georges méliès shorts

rebecca (1940) dir. alfred hitchcock

brief encounter (1946) dir. david lean

to be or not to be (1942) dir. ernst lubitsch

a place in the sun (1951) dir george stevens

eyes without a face (1960) dir. georges franju

double indeminity dir. billy wilder

wild strawberries (1957) dir. ingmar bergman

shame (1968) dir. ingmar bergman

through a glass darkly (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

persona (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

winter light (1963) dir. ingmar bergman

the ascent (1977) dir. larisa shepitko

the devil, probably (1977) dir. robert bresson

cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. agnes varda

alien (1979) dir. ridley scott + its sequels

after hours (1985) dir. martin scorsese

halloween (1978) dir. john carpenter

the watermelon woman (1996) dir. cheryl dune

On March 22, 1895, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, screened their first film, "La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory)," to an invited audience in Paris. #OnThisDay

The San Francisco Examiner, California, August 23, 1932