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deeeaahh · 2 months

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embeccy · 9 months

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"Art and love are the same thing. It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."

- Chuck Klosterman

- Embeccy

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oldwinesoul · 1 year

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“𝐴𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔: 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢.”

—Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

#poets on tumblr #dark academia #aesthetic #spilled poetry #words #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #19th century #vintage #love poem #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia books #renaissance art #renaissance #poetry #dark academia lovers #vintage classics #dark acdemia #chuck klosterman

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seanhowe · 8 months

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“Who was Tom Forçade? A revolutionary guru? A hippie con man? An undercover cop? In Sean Howe’s brilliant book, he’s a weird one-man secret history of seventies America, a mystery man who keeps showing up everywhere from the early underground press to the punk-rock explosion. Agents of Chaos turns this bizarre tale into an obsessively fascinating and addictive epic, like a countercultural thriller.” —Rob Sheffield (Dreaming the Beatles) “A fascinating, anecdote-packed tale of drugs, guns, and magazine publishing.” —Entertainment Weekly “Rollicking history ... captures the freewheeling spirit of the counterculture’s troubled march through the 1970s.” —Publishers Weekly “A cautionary tale from the countercultural past, full of revolutionary glory and ugly criminality.” —Kirkus Reviews “Like an obsessed detective hunting a man without a face, Sean Howe has turned the life of Tom Forçade into a detailed metaphor explaining why the seventies were sublime, why the seventies failed, and how those two things are inextricably connected.” —Chuck Klosterman (The Nineties) “Richly drawn, deadly serious, utterly comical, this book gave me a contact high.” —Joe Hagan (Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine) “A gob-smacking roller coaster ride.” —Tom O'Neill (Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties)

Read an excerpt at Rolling Stone here.

#books #book covers #high times #cannabis #radical #journalism #politics #true crime #chuck klosterman #rob sheffield #joe hagan #tom o'neill #charles manson #1970s #drugs #bill sienkiewicz

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innervoiceartblog · 1 month

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"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."

~ Chuck Klosterman

~ Photo Lili Roze

#Chuck Klosterman #Photograph #woman #Lili Roze #Love #Art and Love #heart and soul #art and soul #Life #Seeing

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aherdofbees · 1 year

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#downtown owl #chuck klosterman #hamish linklater #lily rabe #henry golding #vanessa hudgens #ed harris #finn wittrock #Illustration #artists on tumblr

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veryslowreader · 11 months

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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

The O.C.: "The Dearly Beloved"

#sex drugs and cocoa puffs #chuck klosterman #the o.c.#adam brody #seth cohen

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twin-azure-dragon-wave · 9 months

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The older I get the more I relate to this Chuck Klosterman quote

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beforevenice · 2 years

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Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

// Chuck Klosterman

#venice #venezia #ph #photography #wrong #chuck klosterman #quote #q #travel photography #italy #italia

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maddie-grove · 1 year

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Little Book Review: Nonfiction Round-Up (May-December 2022)

Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine (1997): a self-help book with a somatic approach to dealing with trauma symptoms. It contained some advice that was useful at my old job. Unfortunately, I was too traumatized from said job to concentrate properly on the audiobook, so I was kind of in a Catch-22.

The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman (2022): A deliciously disconcerting series of essays about the fractured last decade of the twentieth century. It wins the coveted "book I'm most determined to lend to my mom" award.

Yes, I'm Hot in This by Huda Fahmy (2018): a cute collection of comics from Fahmy's Instagram, covering subjects from strangers being stupid about her hijab (hence the title) to lighthearted scenes of domestic life. I found it in a Little Library.

Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson (2022): an exploration of the life and writing career of Beatrice Sparks, author of multiple "real" diaries by troubled teens, through-and-through grifter, and coiner of the immortal phrase "freak wharf." This fucked, y'all. Emerson seamlessly delves into multiple topics of interest--Sparks's hardscrabble youth, the discovery of LSD, the Satanic Panic--with plenty of compassion and humor.

The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber (2013): the true-crime account of Charles Cullen, a Pennsylvania/New Jersey nurse who murdered possibly hundreds of patients by poisoning their IV bags in the late 1980s to early 2000s. The subject matter is shocking, and it's horrifying how the indifference of the large medical systems he worked for kept him from facing consequences other than getting fired for years. The style/organization of the book is kind of pedestrian, though.

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (2019): an account of Farrow's efforts to write a story for NBC about the decades-long sexual predation of producer Harvey Weinstein, including NBC's sideways attempts to get him to back off. Farrow's a solid narrative writer, not great, and the book gets less interesting when he strays beyond the inner workings of NBC.

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (1968): In her first collection of essays, Didion talks about murder, movies, mental distress, and Sacramento. It's incredibly fresh in some ways (the essay where she talks about raising her daughter away from her extended family) and incredibly dated in others (her incredulity at people who ascribe artistic vision to Meet Me in St. Louis). I genuinely appreciate her ability to make me go "girl, what are you even talking about."

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh (2020): an illustrated memoir/series of comics, focusing on coping with mental illness and the unexpected loss of a loved one. There are some very funny passages (particularly one involving a troublesome dog), some devastating ones (Brosh's montage of memories of her late younger sister), and some aimless ones.

Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith (2012): part memoir and part general information about anxiety (the science of it, how different people have written about it through history, etc.). It's more interesting as a memoir. I remember that it had some good advice at the end for managing anxiety, but I don't know for the life of me what it was. Still, I feel like I should give him credit for it.

#little book review #waking the tiger #peter a. levine #the nineties #chuck klosterman #yes i'm hot in this #huda fahmy #unmask alice #rick emerson #the good nurse #charles graeber #catch and kill #ronan farrow #slouching towards bethlehem #joan didion #solutions and other problems #allie brosh #monkey mind #daniel smith

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deeeaahh · 2 months

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"Art and Love are the same thing; it's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."

-Chuck Klosterman

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rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world · 1 year

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Younger generations despise older generations for creating a world they must inhabit unwillingly - an impossible accusation to rebuff. Older generations despise new generations for multiple reasons, although most are assorted iterations of two: they perceive the updated versions of themselves as either softer, or lazier. Or both. These categorizations tend to be accurate. But that’s positive. That’s progress. If a society improves, the process of growing up in that society should be less taxing and more comfortable. … If new kids aren’t soft and lazy, something has gone wrong.

- The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman

#books #generations #chuck klosterman #the 90s #the nineties #nostalgia #generational differences #Gen x #millennials #Gen z #boomers

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uaravsh · 9 months

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"Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."

-Chuck Klosterman, "Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story"

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sammeldeineknochen · 1 year

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Jeder will die Person werden, als die er sich sowieso schon ausgibt.

Chuck Klosterman: “Nachteulen”, S.141

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tepot · 2 years

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What Tarantino could express, more explicitly than any of his peers, was the intensity of his own perspective. He became the most important filmmaker of the nineties by making movies exclusively designed for his own idiosyncratic pleasure. [...]

For a fleeting moment in time, this attitude was everywhere. The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius and an amazing decade for high-gloss unconventional film, saturated with anti-cliche, self-contained projects defined by the interiority of their creators: Danny Boyle's drug exploration Trainspotting. P.T. Anderson's fictional porn biopic Boogie Nights. The discomfiting atmospheres of Jane Campion's The Piano and Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's brainfuck Being John Malkovich. Sofia Coppola's essayistic The Virgin Suicides, Darren Aronofsky's mathematically obsessed Pi, and Christopher Nolan's memory-inverted Memento. Spike Lee's prescient Bamboozled, overlooked during its initial 2000 release. Wes Anderson's esoteric character studies. Even directors with more formal aesthetics—the Kubrickian perfectionist David Fincher and the interpersonal realist Noah Baumbach—did not make rote, familiar-feeling movies. Their manufactured realities were life-like, but not transposable with life itself. They demanded to be seen (and considered) as isolated and nontransferable. Time and again, the movie was about the movie.

But this, as it turns out, was an impermanent condition. What came from the nineties stayed in the nineties: By 2015, the notion of seeing a film (or any art) as separate from real-life morality and present-day politics had become increasingly unpopular. By 2020, it was verboten.

The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman (New York: Penguin Press, 2022)

#the nineties #film #quentin tarantino #christopher nolan #sofia coppola #david fincher #chuck klosterman #90s

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littledidiknow · 1 year

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Books Read in 2022

Faggots by Larry Kramer (1978)

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (2009)

Never Be Alone Again: How Bloghouse United the Internet and the Dancefloor by Lisa Abascal (2020)

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (2015)

Arriving Today by Christopher Mims (2021)

But What If We’re Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman (2016)

Fuccboi by Sean Thor Conroe (2022)

Red Notice by Bill Browder (2015)

How Should A Person Be? By Sheila Heti (2010)

Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin (1965)

Human Wishes Enemy Combatant by Edmund Caldwell (2011)

Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry (2019)

This is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth (2021)

Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy by Dave Hickey (1997)

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (2009)

Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis (1937)

A Wreath for the Enemy by Pamela Frankau (1954)

Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt (2011)

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (2019) (reread)

LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin (2021)

By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano (2000)

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (2016)

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt (2000)

Milkman by Anna Burns (2018)

The Golden Spur by Dawn Powell (1962)

They by Kay Dick (1977)

Bliss Montage: Stories by Ling Ma (2022)

Status and Culture by W. David Marx (2022)

This was a big year for me both for quantity (nearly twice as many books as i read last year) but also for quality. So many standouts! And I'm learning I'm very here for experimental literature, please send me your weirdo recos.

Where the hell has Helen Dewitt been all my life? How are so few of her books published?! (she claims to have a dozen ready to go and i need all of them).

Chuck Klosterman has really grown up since I last paid attention to him like 15 years ago. But What if We're Wrong? changed the way I look at the world. He looks at the present day from 1000 years in the future and comtemplates what we could be completely wrong about based on what we've been wrong about in the past. Some of the interviews I've listened to of his this year have really opened my mind to new ways of thinking. Will be doubling back on what I've missed from him in years past in 2023.

Fuccboi was a blast and all the literture snobs that hated it are just completely fucking wrong.

I found Human Wishes Enemy Combatant through a newsletter or something. How lucky we are that this was released again! Read if you want to experience someone completely destroying the structure of a novel.

Milkman is gorgeous. Read immediately.

Gentleman Overboard is another that was nearly lost to time and recently published again. A beautiful and haunting little story.

Read Faggots for a very fun and raunchy romp through the gay sex scene of the late 70s moments before the AIDs crisis. You won't be able to keep track of all the characters, but it doesn't really matter.

How Red Notice hasn't been made into a movie by Adam McKay is beyond me. Maybe it's coming. A great window into Russia's transition after the Soviet Union and also the mindset of modern Russians. Also lots of fascinating stock, money stuff.

Read Arriving Today and This is How they Tell Me the World Ends (about the supply chain and hacking/internet security respectively.) for a peak into our modern lives told by very good story tellers in ways that are far from boring.

I could go on and on about Fleishman is in Trouble (and have in person to so many). The story of two women trojan horsed through the tale of one very mid man. The series on Hulu is also good and an incredibly accurate representation of the book.

Status and Culture! I'm still reeling from this book. Marx is so direct when looking at how and why we like the things we like it almost makes you uncomfortable. i don't think i have ever underlined, astricked, exclamation pointed so much in the margins of a book.

The Golden Spur, They, Bliss Montage, Astragal, How Should A Person Be?, Laserwriter ii, Night Boat to Tangier, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead are all well worth reading also. Honestly, I was blown away by almost everything i read this year minus two big exceptions.

I hated The Buried Giant. Read it for a book club. I'm not a fantasy girl. I get what he was trying to do with the language, but i couldn't get into it, it felt like a bad translation. Which is really saying something for a book written in English. If he called her Princess one more time, I can't.

1Q84 I really wanted to love, (my first Murakami, somehow.). I really liked the first section, but it just didn't add up for me in the end and there were so many loose ends for such a long book.

I have found so many of the books that i loved this year on the podcast Backlisted. Two British guys have on two guests to discuss an old, out of print, or a newer book that isn't as popular. They are charming, it's very nerdy. But they have incredible taste and i put at least 5 books into my Thriftbooks cart during every episode. n+1 also did a fundraiser quiz that gives you 10 book recos. i was very excited about all of them and most of them i'd never heard of. Haven't read any yet, but many are sitting in the same shopping cart. Just checked and they aren't doing it anymore, but look for it next year!

#books #book review #end of year book list #backlisted #books i read #books 2022 #chuck klosterman #w. david marx #helen dewitt #sheila heti #murakami #taffy brodesser akner

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