Nov '24
Hanif Abdurraqib's new book, “There’s Always This Year” had a quote which echoes the notion that a person is the summary of the five people they spend the most time with.
“I propose that above all, you are a reflection of who loves you. We are a reflection of the people who love us.”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive.”
— Alan Watts
“Meaning arises out of the social interaction that people have with each other.”
— Herbert Blumer
“Painting taught me that things don’t exist in themselves. They’re created by the relations between them.”
— Robert Bresson
“When performing, I experience an aliveness where I feel close to the living and to the dead. It seems that the show affords both band and audience moments of acute spiritual intimacy and communion, unlike anything that can be found outside of our own particular cathedrals – sex, nature, religion, identity, whatever.”
— Nick Cave
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
— David Graeber
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
— Albert Camus
“How will you be useless to capitalism today?”
— Brontë Velez
Kayfabe is when staged events within an industry are portrayed as real or true. This includes maintaining that the competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants are genuine within the direct or indirect presence of the general public. Kayfabe is the shared illusion of conmen and wrestlers. In a world that is becoming increasingly like a televised wrestling match, it begs the question of what is kayfabe.
The supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 Galaxy is producing an energy jet of superheated gas nearly 18 trillion miles in length. It's described as "blowtorch-like" and is triggering nearby stars to erupt!
An Aztec Death Whistle is a ceramic, skull-shaped whistle that sounds like someone shrieking when it's played. Archaeologists have popularized the idea that hundreds of warriors would play these whistles at the same time. Imagine hearing a hundred of these.
15%
she tries to get things
out of men
that she can't get
because she's not
15% prettier
– Richard Brautigan