THE ARCADIAN DREAM

mood swing

Pete Doherty interview for The New Cue, 26 Feb 2024 [X]: I did an interview in France the other day and when he was setting up his iPhone to record me, this French journalist, I saw a little list and it was times and dates and names of the people he’d recorded and he’d interviewed Damon Albarn a couple of weeks before. I was like, ‘Let’s have a listen!’ He was like, ‘No, no, it’s against journalistic ethics…’ I went, ‘Come on, let’s have a listen!’ So we had a little listen and there was one question he asked him about how he decides which song he uses for Blur and which song he uses for Gorillaz, which I thought was a good question. The answer’s great. He says he’s got a do-it-yourself chemical litmus test set. He makes a special potion and he dips the song, a USB or an MP3 with it on, into it and if the potion turns a certain colour, he uses it for Blur. Which doesn’t answer your question, but it’s quite a funny anecdote.

Tumblr will always be home but Twitter is a great place to visit sometimes

The chronological Liber-kissies. 

Updated with bonus chronological kissing.

Post-Soviet visual. "We are waiting for changes!" artwork by Polina Korolyova, Russia, 2022.

by juan arata

Same energy. 2003/2024

Kafka actually wrote like this…

It’s weird to grow up in a family where you know you’re loved but you don’t feel loved. And then later in adulthood you understand how almost impossible it seems to cross that distance and let yourself experience closeness, how otherworldly love feels now and how love feels unbearable at times. You flinch when someone tries to wholeheartedly love you. And over and over you see so clearly how you cannot be loved unless it's from afar and love is mixed with that familiar sensation of distance and coldness.

when Florence Welsh said "What a thing to admit that when someone looks at me with real love I don't like it very much / Kinda makes me feel like I'm being crushed"

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Franny Choi, from "First Blood After", Floating, Brilliant, Gone