'For my part, I am a devout Decadent, so I firmly believe in anachronism, inversion, reversals, paradox, metaphor, error, hyperdiction, ornament, odes, Frank Ocean, the Sublime, immodesty, immoderateness, and going all the way. My aim is to exhaust my star.'🌠✴️

Style is substance.

Adorno’s eulogizing of Benjamin. “Misunderstandings are the medium in which the noncommunicable is communicated.” “His glance revealed the ordinary world in the eclipse which is its permanent light.” Every page is like this.

This guy was always going to be special.

Sundays are for Ozu.

'If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.'

Malcolm X was born #OnThisDay in 1925.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Judas and the Black Messiah, The Green Knight, The Lost Daughter, The Northman, The Five Devils, Babylon, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Ash Is Purest White

Whenever I hit an extended sequence of low days, I think about my grandpa who eventually didn't survive those days, but who was the always gentle always loving dad who raised my gentle unconditionally loving mom who provided me reserves from which to handle lows.

the real number is so much higher than 40k that it scares me to even think about. israel destroyed the ministries and infrastructure that were keeping track of the killed and wounded. we’ve been seeing the 30-40k number since december.

First look at the 40th anniversary 4K restoration poster for Paris, Texas.

Premiering at Festival de Cannes on May 24, the restoration was commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation under the supervision of Wim Wenders and with the collaboration of Argos Films.

Satyajit Ray at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1967. Photographed by Mike Wilson.

He is a mediator and a seer more than a witness.

- Christina Campo on Proust

i am the mother
no longer willing to sacrifice sons
to wars of men and
gods of war i
mother refuse to lose
more daughters to sons gone crazy
watching kids get bombed and blown
into bits of brain and bone

—Suheir Hammad
▪︎ Palestinian poet ▪︎

People are always like nobody reads anymore, death of the novel, etc.

but last night Third Place Books 3 high school students hauled a bounty of Rikki Ducornet books to get them signed and one of them was so overcome by emotion she cried & cried 🥹