Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
But sometimes the point is harder to discern. What exactly did I have in mind when I noted down that it cost the father of someone I know $650 a month to light the place on the Hudson in which he lived before the Crash? What use was I planning to make of this line by Jimmy Hoffa: 6 “I may have my faults, but being wrong ain’t one of them”? And al... See more
Joan Didion • On Keeping A Notebook
why do we write stuff into our notebooks?
when the point is harder to discern (but she still shows us the way there)
It may possibly be that acuity and taste in choosing which Deciders one submits to is now the real measure of informed adulthood.
David Foster Wallace • Both Flesh and Not: Essays
With few exceptions, the ancient Greeks did not seem to value newness; on the contrary, they idealized the precise observation and replication of the old. Even the arts, which today seem conceptually inseparable from the pursuit of novelty, were for the moment expressed through rules (the Greek word for art, techne , literally means “the making of... See more
Elan Ullendorff • A brief history of creativity (and power)
feels connected somehow to the rene girard stuff I’ve been reading. perhaps the obsession with novelty / originality underpins the critic’s need to name and eliminate the ‘mimetic desires’ from one’s life
I’ve chosen Los Angeles. I’ve fallen in love with this city. I’m surrounded by friends who have settled down here, who have chosen to build lives here, too. Now, we all know people who’ve lost everything, if we haven’t ourselves. We’re masking up to protect our lungs from burnt asbestos in the air and wondering what a future in L.A. looks like. No... See more
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