So, in the time I need to go and spend more time on Big Daddy Kane, Ice Cube, LL Cool J, NWA, etc. etc. I also need to read up on Mac Miller, Macklemoore, Danny Brown, Childish Gambino, Wiz Khalifa, Azealia Banks, etc. etc.

And this is only mainstream-ish rap. hmm...

It is beyond insane that I could literally spend thousands of hours consuming culture in the form of freely accessible videos, articles, images, projects, ...

I used to think that it was impressive that so much porn was freely available and distributed. But what is truly jaw-dropping is the significant amount of amateur videos and pictures freely ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot lately about who I am, and what defines me. I feel like I'm getting a better feel of what makes me more "mature" than I might have been in my early 20's, and I'm not necessarily finding it easier to describe.

I think that for many years, I've been able to make do with a very shallow self-concept (?) that was only connected ( Read more... )

Rereading Birth of Tragedy ( Read more... )

I think I want to be a Nietzsche scholar ( Read more... )

Why did no one tell me that The Last Unicorn was such a brilliant book?

I'm saddened that I spent hours upon hours reading Michael A. Stackpole, C. S. Lewis (fiction, and non) and Clayton Emery when I could have been reading and re-reading this book. It's just sickeningly good... the quality of the prose, the imagery, and how Beagle teasingly throws ( Read more... )

Almost done the Steve Jobs biography. I don't feel that enthralled by the book, or by the person. Though I'm truly glad that I'm reading it.

Imputing as little condescension as I can here, I feel like I recognize a big part of Steve Jobs, and his personality. His strength really wasn't his sense of advertising, or his engineering. Fundamentally, It ( Read more... )

Spending time with R was great and interesting for a slew of reasons. Appropriately enough, it reminded me of the choices that I've made in my life. It's easy with my kind of temperament to make decisions and deliberately avoid reflecting on the fallout of the decision. Which is useful, as it doesn't weight the decisions down with the kind of ( Read more... )

Ravencrow Neversmiles is a pretty great name.

Having a very difficult time these past few weeks. Would love to say that it's mostly a question of P being gone, but it's more than that. I think that there are too many top-level crises, and I haven't yet created a system for managing the top-level issues, and converting them into PRIORITIZED lower- ( Read more... )

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