bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”
if you do mixing for rock music i beg of you please stop mixing your kick drums so quietly. i found out a couple weeks ago that this one deerhunter song that one of my bands covers is like 60% kick drum and no matter how much i listen to it i cannot hear it