A submission to the feeling of being overwhelmed. Knowing when to tap out, and using it as fuel to make you a better fighter. Not giving power to things that are out of our control. Not allowing societal constructs to kill our inner confidence. Avoiding misguided truths, keeping our mental free and clear for new growth. Taking information in, and deciding whether or not it serves you. Looking at old relationships, taking them for what they’re worth, and sometimes moving on from them.
This is sonic anxiety, yet it is also an excitement for more understanding of who we are. Bang your head to this. Get out of your head to this. Fuck up leg day to this. Shake your ass to this. Love on yourself to this.
A dive into what all this chaos has done to our senses. Everything we thought we knew has changed. A lot of us lost friends, and family this last year. It won’t be in vain if we all pick ourselves up, and continuing moving forward. Stronger, faster, and better than ever before.
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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