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random quote from http://www.spaceandculture.org/
"Perhaps the central fascination of the city, both real and fictional, is that it embodies man's contradictory feelings - pride, love, anxiety, and hatred - toward the civilization he has created and the culture to which he belongs."
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personality is environmental
today i realized how little what i do has anything to do with my own will. things that i do really just happen, like a brain that does it's own thing as a machine. in order to be the person i want to be, i really just have to be surrounded by the kind of people that help bring it out of me. while i'm at school, for instance, i can't imagine that i' ( Read more... ) -
daily highlights
watched akira, watched natural born killers (loved it), and spent some good time downtown. the assemblage of people i hung out with was slightly different than usual, making it very entertaining ( Read more... ) -
the scariest nightmare ever
i just woke up from the worst nightmare i've ever had. it's the only nightmare where i'm still afraid, still fantasizing about how it could be real ( Read more... ) -
coffee
why is it that whenever you get black coffee at a coffee shop, it's always bad, but whenever you get it at a diner it's always good ( Read more... ) -
suv fireball
we were driving to the park to play croquet and have a picnic, but we were on the wrong side of the highway. we passed this SUV with smoke billowing out from under the engine. we drove out to the next exit, got on the side of the highway where the park was, and drove past the SUV again. this time, there were huge flames shooting out from under the ( Read more... ) -
confession
i'm in love with audrey from twin peaks -
encounters
i was just reading a deleuze interview about 30 seconds after i posted the last thing, and deleuze expressed almost the same feeling that i was thinking before i read it. i think encounters with people are just as great as with paintings or films, since people are no different from these things, people are objects inscribed with stories just like ( Read more... )
