Art of Darkness
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Girthy biographical profiles of dead artists with @kautzmania and friends. Dark Room interview episodes with the living. And more ☠️.
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Joined February 2021
Booking 2026 Dark Rooms now and already lining up some certain bangers. You can see the Core Episode schedule here, and sponsor one if you like. We have assembled a team. https://t.co/pSaWjIi3ox
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See the Season VI Schedule & Sponsor a Core Episode We accept donations to sponsor (and request) Core Episodes via PayPal. You do not need a PayPal account to donate. There are two donation tiers:...
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Samuel Beckett, New York, 1964 [photo by Steve Shapiro]
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william blake engraving from 1793 mogs pretty much every new yorker cartoon
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When George Harrison was 27, everything The Beatles ever did — Love Me Do to breaking America to going to India and getting into transcendental meditation to playing on that rooftop, recording Revolver and The White Album and Let It Be — was all in the past for him.
I've always loved the bit where they put on their old collarless suits in this video but it still blows my mind whenever I think about how the period they're cheekily referencing was... less than four years earlier
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This is why it’s critical aspiring writers pursue juvenilia and lesser known works by the masters. Exposure to perfectly edited masterworks alone is totally disorienting and even demoralizing.
Reading work by a writer you once thought was pretty good—now clearly operating without an editor—is like walking into your favorite bar with all the lights on. You can’t unsee what you’ve seen.
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There is literally a scene at the end where an even older old man talks to our titular “Old Man” to tell him he comes from a long line of Old Men for whom this Country is No longer For.
Rewatched "No Country for Old Men" yesterday, and I am placing my head under the guillotine here by saying this, but making movies with ambiguous endings is terrible art because it shows the director's and writer's lack of decisiveness in making, defending and completing their
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“Country for Old Men”
Rewatched "No Country for Old Men" yesterday, and I am placing my head under the guillotine here by saying this, but making movies with ambiguous endings is terrible art because it shows the director's and writer's lack of decisiveness in making, defending and completing their
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What do you mean, "had"?
The Habsburgs had style 🎨Painting of Archduke Maximilian III by Martino Rota, c. 1580
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“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” J.R.R. Tolkien
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66 years ago today, Harvard Professor Timothy Leary took magic mushrooms in Mexico for the first time. "I learned more about my brain, I learned more about psychology, in the 5 hours after taking these mushrooms than I had in the preceding 15 years doing research [at Harvard]."
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Reddit is down the hall
Rewatched "No Country for Old Men" yesterday, and I am placing my head under the guillotine here by saying this, but making movies with ambiguous endings is terrible art because it shows the director's and writer's lack of decisiveness in making, defending and completing their
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I prefer to read a writer's work before knowing anything about them
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I have a new piece out, "Kipling the Shaman," explaining how the origin of Rudyard Kipling's genius lies in a kind of shamanic crisis. Link below 👇
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New episode out with Andy Edwards (@goldengoatguild ) his books King of Dogs and the recently-released Crowbar! I asked him easy questions like 'What is the supernatural?' and 'What is your conception of the soul?' He's a trooper and actually answered!
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You can always, always, always start a podcast and abandon it in five months.
When Elon says "working will be optional" what he's really saying is "you won't be able to find a job." https://t.co/K79uDDvtCo
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Tom Stoppard was the greatest living playwright up until his death today. “The Real Thing,” “The Invention of Love,” “Jumpers,” and “Arcadia” (among others) are fantastic plays that will continue to be seen and studied. A quote from “The Real Thing” on writing cricket bats:
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When Harold Pinter wrote to Tom Stoppard... “I would rather die.” ~ Harold Pinter 🖤 Tom Stoppard, R. I. P.
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