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Everybody is confronted with profundity, by the raw awe of living. It’s just that not everyone insists on making it everyone else’s business. Relax.


J Dilla - Donuts

You really should listen to the whole box, not just grab The New, Mash, and Time: The Donut of the Heart (although they are delicious) and think you’ve tasted pretty much the entire album.

Just sit down for a little less than three quarters of an hour and listen to Donuts. An astounding audio time travel road trip hangout at professor tensors hyper ovoid musical loop farm (city version). So many little audio tricks, so many genres, so much quirky imagination, stuff you heard on fuzzy FM in ’74, blooped back on the loop, and the tomorrow people! Go get your girlfriend…because dancing.


Is “denude” like “inflammable” in that they mean whatever the hell you want them to mean? Definitely can burn or won’t. Not un-nude, totally nude. Ach, la langue.



He turns to me and says with a straight face “I’m hard candy, but I don’t melt.” and I immediately heard myself think “O, I like this one.”



I generally try not to pay attention to what machines suggest I do, but my player recently said I might like J Dilla’s Donuts. ❡ Haven’t heard smthng this evocative and intriguing in years. ❡ Moved I was. Remember, they’re donuts, if you have too many you might get sick, AF.


Y’ever think trees and plants are kind of over-compensating for gravity? I mean, I stand here rootless, yet I’m not floating off into the atmosphere…wait..oh uh…hmm…no, okay, I think I get it now.


Are you ever lucky

Are you ever lucky enough to find good material on a recent popular topic, and after reading and reflecting come to understand how spotty and superficial what you thought you knew about the subject actually was? And then maybe thought, is my knowledge generally of this character? And then sat in a heap on the floor all day trying to learn something, anything? I could knit, or fashion some sort of crude lathe… so lucky.

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