Terminal 5 remains the NYC venue equivalent of visiting your parents: You get there and are immediately anxious and furious, spend the entire time there convincing yourself that it’s actually okay, and afterwards you eventually feel like you survived a car accident
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there are two kinds of people in this world: people for whom this house is a dream, and people for whom this house is a nightmare. I'm in the latter category.
having normal guy thoughts like “it would probably be easier to learn a few close-up magic tricks than to learn how to dance, and it would probably be just as useful at weddings”
Sylvia Plath knew exactly what she was talking about when she wrote “you must have known you were wrong when your fingers were dipped inside me searching for honey that would not come for you.”
People will offhand be like “I don’t think I’ve ever been to [city]” & the next day ProPublica is like “we talked to someone you took an off-book Segway tour from there, & btw traffic camera video shows you bribing a judge while wearing your college choir’s class trip t-shirt.”
Seymour Stein was written by the one band member of B&S who didn’t actually meet him.
I was working in a restaurant that night and feeling blue that my girl had left the city and left me.
Record company men back then, especially those as eminent as Mr Stein, seemed like fantasy…Show more
get yourself together. move to philly. buy a loft. start a noise band. get six or seven roommates. eat hummus with them. book some gigs. paint. smoke cloves. listen to animal collective. start some type of salsa company.
@elonmusk , question for you. I'm losing about 500 to 1k users a day. To counter this I went Blue² thinking it gave me some preference and would help retain or grow users. Any suggestions ?