11.04.24 // "I go somewhat further than humanism even; it's less a question about morals and their origins for me than it is about the magnificent splendor of life itself. I believe that life is sacred in any form, no matter how technologically advanced, cerebrally gifted, or morally pioneering. The difficulty comes because the full import of that assertion is crushing for creatures like ourselves, who prefer to think of ourselves as thinking and feeling quite deeply. All that you are impelled to do within the futile bounds of your own sacred life crushes you." He said, after Vonnegut. 11.02.24 // psychic wounds reopened back to the innocence of 2016. The clock that still looms over Union Square was eight years lighter then. After work I would wander down Broadway listening to "Visions of Johanna" and wonder what would become of my twenties. Now I'm nearly 30, and looking confusedly around for the entire world I'd thought I'd be joining. 10.29.24 // something about the speed of ideas “back then” leading to greater room for individuals to become known and authoritative (not to mention the barriers to entry) … versus now, when the marketplace is so saturated and so continuously; we are in a time where an Idea catches on like a literal virus; with all this focus on ideas the person shrinks back; but in music there is no way to “speed up” the delivery mechanism behind the “idea”, so an artist is needed and posited and received; we hunger for individuals (as that is what we are after all) and find the spaces to assert author-ity fewer and farther between, but in music the idea is saved…