I step inside The room where you Dissect people Without touching them And where you expect me To bleed out too Eventually.
But I'm interviewing you To see If you can handle My personal brand Of sarcasm, calculated remarks And swearing I'm polite But I'm testing Just as I expect you to be. I'm telling you They're the tools We're both going to need.
We both smile But understand The unspoken protocol That I've come with a plan To remain intact And invulnerable I sneer at the box Of tissue papers You place near Because you really Don't know me At all yet.
But after twenty minutes Even I realise You're actually quite kind And genuine You seem to understand That the world Is fucked up And still you really believe You can change it So I decide to give you a chance To prove Whether You're delusional Or emotionally advanced.
We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...
At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasn’t just down—it was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasn’t even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a baby’s rattle w...
In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”
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