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I read Clare Barron’s play Dance Nation and it touched something in me that was so personal and deep in there that I then read every other play of hers currently available, and they ALL did that for me. Without exception. I don’t know if it’s because she’s interested in the same things I am, or if it’s as simple as “she’s a beautiful writer”, but whatever it is, it feels like I told her all my secrets except they’re secrets I didn’t even know I had. That’s the best way I can describe her work- especially the monologues- they make me feel like I didn’t know that feeling or that impulse or experience was something I felt but it is. Absolutely thrilling to read. And perform! Not that I have gotten the privilege of being in one of her plays. I am unfortunately just talking about reading them out loud alone in my apartment, performing every character, recording the whole thing in photo booth, and then never watching it and deleting it 4 months later.
Aug 12, 2021
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đźŽOne of my favorite playwrights of all time (just behind my dear friend Polly Stenham, who first introduced me to her work) - her book of complete plays (Blasted, Phaedra’s Love, Cleansed, Crave, 4.48 Psychosis, and Skin) is everything I love about music, films, really anything. There’s something about reading plays that allows my brain to process and experience the work differently - it’s a crazy thrill to read her,, especially Blasted. It’s intense to the bone stuff. She also made a short film for Skin in 1997 just before hanging herself in 1999.
Mar 17, 2022
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🩻But I would start with “Foreign Body” or “On Lighthouses”.
She primarily works with the physical experience of memory. Endlessly subtle, touching, and funny.
She primarily works with the physical experience of memory. Endlessly subtle, touching, and funny.
Feb 8, 2024
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It's haunting and melancholy but very passionately performed. If you like Christine and the Queens, Holly Humberstone, or Holly Herndon for that matter, you'll dig this probably (but put through a Celtic filter). Came out in April and I keep returning to it. Especially "Life of the Forbidden," "Wee Rosebud," "Into This, Called Lonliness," and the closing track "S.O.S. Song of the Sword" is VERY on the Kate Bush tip.
Jul 12, 2024
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💪Okay... I think honestly people are surprised to learn that I am deeply obsessed with like, “health and fitness” culture. I think it is SO FUN and riveting and it occupies sooo much of my thoughts and my time. I have been told that this does not suit my personality. It’s like God flipped a wrong switch and gave “loves to work out” to me instead of the right person. But if I was REALLY being honest in this list and not trying to impress anyone, all my recommendations would be about that. But I’m trying for some variety, so I will just say that the government does not want you to know about The Ready State.Dr. Kelly Starrett is an amazing man. If you have a foam roller, lacrosse balls, tennis balls, a towel, NOTHING, there’s a 5/10/20/30 minute video you can do where you follow along with him as he talks you through mobilizing and restoring function to your own tissues and muscular systems and teaches you how one affects the other etc. If that sounds really boring, you don’t have to retain any of the information, you can just give yourself a better massage than anyone you would pay could. It hurts really bad fyiI think everyone in the world should be devoting at least like 5 min a day to this. It will literally keep you from needing surgery later. “Doctors HATE him!” etc(Equally great alternative, higher production value- Jill Miller’s YogaTuneUp balls -- -- and corresponding videos. I think she has a lot of free Youtube stuff too that might not even require lacrosse balls)
Aug 12, 2021
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❗Oh other things I am thinking are Lypo-Spheric Vitamin C (ridiculously expensive but its what famous people use to not get sick and I think it does work somehow), Natural Calm Magnesium (I have taken this every night for years since someone told me there’s some cult that gives it to children to keep them from being hyper), This instagram lizard named MacGyver, Old Spice men’s deodorant, breaking up a protein bar into tiny pieces and putting it into a bowl of popcorn, Alka Seltzer chews
Aug 12, 2021
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🌶Their spices are so insanely delicious. Their turmeric especially is a transcendent experience.. I drink it every night w/ like almond milk and stuff when I have it, but a lot of the time I don’t because it is always sold out, because it is so good. All their spices are single-origin and sourced directly from the farmers they work with and they don’t sell their stuff on Amazon. Their whole thing is about a spice trade that’s equitable and not evil. Their spices are out of this world and absolutely worth getting on their waiting lists for.
Aug 12, 2021