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I have it right now actually

my concern is mainly, do you as an artist, or just a person, have to have an ideal? it seems to me that without an ideal, you can only see the world through observation, a cold, rationalist, agnostic, passive, academic mode of thinking. back the joyce thing, it's a perfect illustration of...

great watch

Hollywood used to be good at making those types of films that play out like a nice little dream.

Just watched Cast Away on Netflix, lying in bed with a fever and a headache. (Tested negative for corona but apparently you can still get sick from normal viruses.) The whole FedEx thing was well done I think. America in the 90s with the solipsism and arrogance of professionalism culture...

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anything in the shape of a diagnosis of youth culture seems besides the point. maybe that's always been the case, i don't know.

i find it hard to know how to react to things like tik tok. Obviously I see it as dark dark dark but all that seems so besides the point.

how's it going on the dating scene shiels?

sort of similar to twitter it seems the right attitude with which you are supposed to engage with tik tok is highly refined and complex in its mix of sincerety and distancing to succeed your performance needs to acknowledge all seven layers in a dialectic of embarrassment and coolness

pasta :-(

guess what I ate tonight

it's wonderful woops perfectly evokes the image of you as a great painter in a cafe in paris and luke this young blue-eyed aspirant coming up to your table asking for a little drawing and you turning without a word to sketch this on a napkin and hand it to him

Yes, a transmitter. Very Cage-an also. It's done unconsciously but not concerned with the actual unconscious of the artist as an object.

is he though? i think mining unconscious is still a part of the self-expression mythology, even a sort of revered shape of it

I think as a person you are able to have impressions that are more independent of your self than others, feelings that circumvent the ego, and that expressing these in the most free, selfless form is the closest thing you come to 'organic art.'

i don't know exactly where i land on all this. Iøm not too keen on the 'core self' thing - i feel like it's a trap.