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Happy birthday Luka!

i agree that it's the internet that's fucked it up. it sounds tacky and lazy but it's true

playing up the silly aspect of it? the message i'm getting from it is that it's very idealist at it's core in a similar way to something like John Lennon singing 'War is over, if you want it'. If everybody could only get on their 'vibe'...

Pretty boring music to get high to though, isn't it? Anodyne, theraputic, safe space music. It's like blues music on anti-depressants.

it's not a grand principle of mine, it's just this exact syrupy expression I don't have the stomach for. I love pop, soul, disco

it's like that annoying grimace people do when they eat something delicious, that exaggerated savouring expression, that's what I imagine when I hear this

is porn humanist?

it's not humanist music to me

would never listen to any of it

sexier than sex itself

but then it's often done so maudlin and indulgent, it's ridiculous, theatrical

the songwriting in this music is all about desire, savouring the sinful pleasure, being a slave to the body. being weak for the love. there's a greek myth thing to it, the fatalism

Let's create a new structure out of LOVE

The literal conspiracy theory hermeneutics I find pretty boring, but I like them from a metaphorical point of view. In Eyes Wide Shut there's that constant sense of oppressive secrecy, dark forces, strings being pulled in every shadow of the streets. He shot it all on a set, all the street...

is there a difference between systemic and structural?

prompted by this?

i'm not saying that it's the dominant impulse, just that it's always there, so that when people claim that they're completely free of it, I get suspicious

social media surely has amplified this hyperawareness of identity narrative but I feel like i've always had a sense of it

i'm younger than you and I see a form of snobbery as a nessecary step towards balanced and uninhibited taste