The Weeknd, Dennis Cooper and Sadism

I read a few of Dennis Cooper's books around 2007.  

It was a really weird time for me. I was living in San Francisco and felt off-kilter and displaced a lot. And also, just cold. That city is so fucking cold. I was reading authors that really weren't good for me at the time--Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, and most of all, Dennis Cooper. 

an analysis of "breaking bad" and the anatomy of pain

No one would like Walter White in real life. And by like, I mean LIKE. That feeling of oh shit, this guy is awesome. The Walter White of Breaking Bad starts off as a grumpy science teacher, and quickly descends into the rank corridors of the methamphetamine trade. It isn’t cute.

I have been on meth. I’ve watched a middle-aged woman in a track suit snort lines next to her bulimic 17-year-old; I’ve watched a guy show me how he had to “parachute” his meth because he only had a few teeth left, and little to speak of separate nasal cavities. (Parachuting is where you wrap the drug in toilet paper and swallow it.) It’s a toxic thing that kind of reminds me of cancer—a thing that feeds and spreads with the anger of wildfire. And while my interaction with meth involved mostly innocuous college nights spent playing spades until 8 in the morning, the stuff I’ve seen that drug do to people’s faces is enough to make me recoil. This is the truth: I never became a meth head for the same reason that I never became a hardcore drug addict of any kind. It really isn’t worth getting ugly over.

stream ryan hemsworth "last words" ep

this is delicious and lovely and amazing. 

I spent an evening at Ryan Hemsworth's Bandcamp page unable to stop listening to all his ep's. I don't remember the last time I freaked out on someone's canon. "Kitsch Genius" is so chill and sweet to listen to...now, on a fall night in Georgia, with my bedroom window open. I really love this style of music. It reminds me of what lounge and chillwave music were trying to do in the 90s' and early 2000s, but kept making it too sappy. His treatment to the Notwist's Consequence is subtle and beautiful because you barely even notice until the end that it's that song. Anyway, go check out all his stuff on his Bandcamp page.

evian christ "MYD"

dark like burial. been grooving really hard on this. i guess this guy is a big deal right now, off an ep called 'kings like them.' UK guy and kept his identity secret, very like burial.

“the danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.” -jack kornfield