Rebecca Martinez
@beccam724
Rebecca Martinez
There was a Jesuit preacher, Anthony de Mello, who said if you’re suffering but not willing to do anything about it, you need to suffer more. Suffer until you get sick of your suffering. Which sounds harsh, but it’s true. The transformative moments in my life only came when the pain of staying the same finally became greater than the pain of... See more
Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era
We are drowning in a river of short-form video. Where the allure isn’t even the content but the abundance, the infinitude of the flow. As the cultural conversation is dominated by what is fast and loud and immediately engaging, because those are the qualities screens reward, we lose the capacity to think in paragraphs, to think hard about the same... See more
Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era
Loving any kind of music is great, but the cultural implications about said music always change dynamically. A couple of years ago, I read
Ted Gioia’s “Music: A Subversive History,” in which he promotes an idea of an institutionalization cycle that music experiences – an idea that has stuck with me ever since.
Essentially, it implies that all
... See moreI saw this interview with Rosalia the other day, and made me think about the next revolution in music: to go backwards
Derrick Geesubstack.comI feel squeamish about trying to define the genre of pop music but I will say one thing: For something to be widely popular, it must be accessible. The “I” of the pop song, the “you” or “tú”, the speaker or audience, is meant to be nebulous and interchangeable. A singer could be talking about their dog, their recently deceased mother, an old lover,
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How to create a hyper-personalized feed that emphasizes issues/policies/topics that pertain to you and your work?
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.com
I think often of Toni Morrison’s views on “writer’s block” and how it’s so antithetical to everything we’re taught. For Morrison, writer’s block isn’t something to be pushed or worked through. It’s a message that we’re not meant to be writing right now; and that that’s okay.
“It’s blocked because it ought to be... See more
Gloria Alamrewsubstack.com