My rumblings on life, art, cinema, literature, and culture
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For the umpteenth time the big heavy turtle of my adolescent apathy is being thrown out of the sea of facetious ordeal by the tide of artistic stagnation to rest on my chest. No matter the vast diverseness of my actions and precautions, the devouring torpor will eventually come to meet me again in my enormous motivation, which whilst trying to lift me off the ground fails to do so, crushing into…
While in my thinking from time to time, occasionally, about how it would be nice to have a cable again, I walked in on my partner setting up an app for live TV that comes included with our wifi plan. And so, for the past two weeks I've been turning on Cartoon Network or Disney Channel to watch The Amazing World of Gumball , Phineas and Ferb , and Star vs. the Forces of Evil almost daily and it's…
Yesterday on our spontaneous before bed walk around our neighbourhood, we passed by a small old tech store. A tiny thick monitor on the lit-by-a-dim-street-light display made us stop and examine what else there was. Among covered in dust devices from around 2000s stood a Brother typewriter. And I've been wanting to have a typewriter for a long time now, though this story is about how I didn't get…
Dimmi se devo credere che tutto ciò è reale... The floor was somewhat comforting. I know I was lying there in a bathroom stall for more than two hours. The noise of running water. Firstly, you go there, in a bathroom stall, thinking you need some time to cool down, then you are sitting with your head reaching towards the floor, and somehow some moments later you are trying to find a repose lying…
I slowly, one-by-one, continue to post here my older writing – the texts I've shared many times before, but those that are now only accessible to me as the websites they were originally written for are long gone. This text was written for my friend A. back in May 2023. Do you hear voices – Do you hear voices? – No – Then he's completely mentally healthy. Go away now. [Two hours earlier: "I have to…
During the last year I started trying to set more mindful habits: no social media, reading more, be more analog, and yada, yada, yada. For now, the biggest change is in how I spend my mornings. I love reading in bed, love choosing new album to listen to every morning, love doing yoga, love playing New York Times Connections with my partner, love opening my RSS reader. I started to keep my phone…
This essay's been written in July 2024, though I though I'd share it here as well. Rejecting reading trends in the age of readers’ aesthetics and BookTok recommendations. In all likelihood, everyone is sick and tired of hearing about TikTok’s tendencies of making microtrends, encouraging overconsumption, and promoting low-quality content as much as everyone is tired of “just let people enjoy…
I don't remember the day it happened. Reading a book one day, maybe, or sitting at a posh restaurant listening to what people are talking about at the next table, or, maybe, it was that short late night car ride. Firstly, you leave all social media – you delete almost everything off of your phone or, better, you start considering getting a landline (in case you'll need to dial "M"). You buy a…
