Reckoning with the Dead at the Sphere
As Dead lyricist Robert Hunter wrote in the classic Dead song “Uncle John’s Band,” “When life looks like Easy Street, there is danger at your door.”
Barry Barnes • Everything I Know About Business I Learned From the Grateful Dead
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The satisfying crunch of the sand beneath your feet comes courtesy of thousands of dried bones. I had made the four-hour pilgrimage from Los Angeles to visit this monument to decay. Some consider it gauche to visit so-called ruin porn, but I like to witness firsthand the way nature will declare war against our hubris, building in places unintended
... See moreCaitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
The Zone has the eerie feel of a postapocalyptic oasis, a scene where some prior devastation has left ruins that are now returning to nature, cultivating a terrible beauty, a kind of “bright sadness.”
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
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 t... See more
Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
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when the point is harder to discern (but she still shows us the way there)
After each generation dies, only a few songs and artists enjoy a lingering fame.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
It’s impressive that in 2022, when it feels like everything we’re doing is being mined, lumped into categories, catapulted back at us in the form of ads and content, the world is being NFT-ified, yada yada yada—that you can still fall down rabbit holes on the internet and discover something no algorithm has found. A sound and scene that’s still lea... See more
No Bells • Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
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Whisper Out of Time It is common for an artist to question the weight of their ideas.