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calm and normal guy
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first poet on the cover of gq
killtomsachs.comJoined January 2012

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me praying before bed every night: dear god. thank you for this day. please forgive me all of my sins. i ask that you let me sing the hook on one extremely popular euro dance hit. also please smite all my enemies in the state of rhode island. amen.
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review of the new national album after listening to it once in a rental car: it is very very boring. worst album they’ve ever put out. sleep well beast at least had one good song on it (carin at the liquor store)
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in their only reporting on missouri’s draconian anti-trans legislation, the NYT conveniently fails to mention that the AG’s citation for requiring 18 months of therapy is literally a NYT magazine article
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fuck it, im gonna say it. the costco hot dog is a garbage-tier hot dog experience. 1/4 pound of subpar lukewarm meat, buns that are somehow both soggy and stale, and a condiment selection worse than death row.
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The Costco hot dog combo is a legendary meme. But how does it still only cost $1.50? Introduced in 1985, the price of that combo should be ~$4.20 if adjusted for inflation. Thankfully, the $216B warehouse retailer has done everything in its power to keep the price down. And… Show more
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having two monitors is crazy. i’m scrolling around and clicking on shit i didn’t know was there. booking plane tickets to atlantis while i’m trying to turbotax. ordering 1,000 bees while i’m trying to read the news. pooping while i’m trying to pee. etc.
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i have a regular at the bar who is a 55 year-old barback at a bbq place who has never eaten fish, an orange, or anything green (from lettuce to green m&ms) who i am extremely excited to serve this to
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This is what happens when you use a marketing and advertising agency that has never met one of your customers.
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The art world is dead. The institutions have no edge; the Artists have no grounding; at the top there is nothing but money and the thirst for it. Where once there was counterculture there is now culture, from the Chanel guillotine to hypebeast heroism - and so the cycle repeats.
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You show work around the world, design for Nike, and popularize "knolling" in a film titled 10 Bullets, required viewing for assistants in your studio (reportedly a cult-like and abusive workplace). You develop systems; you pay minimum wage; you become what you wanted to kill.
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Two years later, Thom Yorke wears the shirt onstage with Radiohead. In 1999, a bootleg version of the shirt appears on a bully in the teen romantic comedy movie She's All That. Your career picks up. You become a famous contemporary artist commenting on violence and consumerism.
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it’s an indescribable emotion how i’ve felt every night for the past week when my gf and our dying cat fall asleep on my lap while i play resident evil 4
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gonna wear my most oldest, most tattered flannel to work, and when a wealthy old white patron inevitably complains, i’ll say it’s a $1200 marc jacobs straight off ezra miller’s back at 2023 paris fashion week and that they’re just uncultured swine who doesn’t understand fashion
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POET: dude get this. i was at duffy's place the other weekend. ya ya the farm. lol no he hasn't lived in dinkytown for like a decade mb. but ya i'm chillin in that hammock he has and that's when i realize. i've wasted my life FRIEND: u shd write a poem abt that
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