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things i didn't make but keep coming back to.

books

the ones i re-read

  • 1984

    george orwell

    the telescreen isn't the frightening part. newspeak is.

  • mindset

    carol dweck

    one idea, and it happens to be the right one.

  • four thousand weeks

    oliver burkeman

    that's the whole life. you won't get to everything.

film

watched more than twice

  • the shawshank redemption

    darabont, 1994

    patience as a plot device, twenty years of it.

  • the mist

    darabont, 2007

    the ending. that's all i'm saying.

  • the truman show

    weir, 1998

    less funny every year since.

art

makes me want to make something

  • frida kahlo

    painter

    painted the thing itself, not a polite version of it.

  • haken

    prog, uk

    filed under art on purpose. composed, not assembled.

places

worth the trip

  • vârful piule

    retezat, romania

    everyone stops talking on the way up.

  • cafeneaua nației

    bucharest

    some rooms just let you think.

  • assisi

    umbria, italy

    stone, hills, a slower clock than you arrived with.

aesthetics

the whole mood

  • raw nature

    no path, no signage. the thing as it already was.

  • a sunny morning

    light that's only there before anyone else is up.

  • a rainy afternoon in the mountains

    inside, warm, weather happening to somebody else.

wrong by the time you read it. that's the point.

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