Unison - Gang of Youths
Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn - The White Stripes
Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
I - Kendrick Lamar
"In many ways, writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.
It’s an aggressive, even a hostile act. You can disguise its
aggressiveness all you want with veils of subordinate clauses and
qualifiers and tentative subjunctives, with ellipses and evasions—with
the whole manner of intimating rather than claiming, of alluding rather
than stating—but there’s no getting around the fact that setting words
on paper is the tactic of a secret bully, an invasion, an imposition of
the writer’s sensibility on the reader’s most private space." -- Joan Didion
How convenient it is to let our minds indulge in the follies of modern pleasures. How convenient it is to catch 100 winks amidst a sea of disorder. There is no escape from the 2nd law of thermodynamics. We fall short, yet not lose sight of the distant lighthouse. Our perception is forcefully limited to the markers of yesterday's experiences. Thrust forward!
