adverb lover

Torn between Succession, Mad Men, and Better Call Saul here, but weirdly, that felt like the only part of this that was a toss-up. I'm a little surprised at how unwavering the other nine wound up being.

Shocking no one, The History of Concrete is one of the best films of the year: letterboxd.com/kabbalahharr...

The Why Cheap Art? Manifesto, Bread & Puppet Theater, 1984

Pathologic (2005)

I tried using AI to write my resume, the way they tell you to, but it kept sneaking in little references to my sensual lips. Claude stop it, I said. This is a programming job. It ignored me. Bedroom eyes, it wrote, under a job where I mostly used Visual Basic. Wears tight little shorts.

When I was 16 a teacher had us read Ray Kurzweil—the original apocalyptic AI cultist—and it was so obvious to us how delusional he was that we all ganged up to tell the teacher how much Kurzweil sucked, and that was how I met my first-ever girlfriend. True story!

It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

There is no deadline for finding your people, falling in love or discovering something new about yourself. If you’re beginning again, I hope you give yourself room to be a beginner. You don’t have to explain your pace to anyone. I'll always cheer for the life that feels right to you.

Abstraction is to video games what cuts are to film: the defining trait of the medium, around which all artistry springs. It's why so many modern games are such shit.

I don't love Hamilton, find its emotional beats insincere and transparently manipulative, and think its rhyme schemes are obnoxious and cringe, but also Lin Manuel-Miranda is insanely good at what he does. All Lin haterdom needs to factor that in, because denying it makes you sound dumb

I wrote SO MUCH about my favorite band. They're fuckin nuts. I could go on, but I already did. 👇🏼

couple it with my new thing: "a hundo million is great to have." things don't have to be shit if the founders don't have to make a trillion dollars

If you live in a city you shouldn't have to own a car.

social media has enormously enriched my personal and intellectual life but i think it's a plague and a blight and if you use it too much you almost inevitably go insane

Hey, I just met you And we're to take sail But here's my number So call me Ishmael

TIRED: winedark sea WIRED: snotgreen sea INSPIRED: scrotumtightening sea

Had the privilege of recording a classical piano trio I composed recently. I've been obsessed w chamber music the last few years bc of the human elements that come through that can get washed out with the scale of a full orchestra. Here's the main theme:

the phrase "buddy, that's my MEDICAL cheese" is swimming through my head this morning

The secret to enjoying whatever social media platform you use is to maintain a social media account on a platform where everybody's much, much worse.

Every indie game developer comes up with attempting political assassination as a publicity stunt and I keep telling them it's a bad idea. Invest in graphics, I tell them. Refine your core gameplay loop. But they never listen

I'm freaking out about this so much that I messaged my company group chat about it, just in case any of them are Herzogian cave-painting enthusiasts too. People must be told

Hemingway once said the happiest story ever written was six words long