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Recently, I read Siddhartha & Catcher in the Rye. Both protagonists, Siddhartha & Holden, were relatable for different reasons. Siddhartha’s quest for knowledge and Holden’s recognition of the performative nature of everyone around him - of their inauthenticity.
Holden is frustrating though - he’s a stagnant character through and through - and the lack of growth leaves him in a mental hospital at the end of the story. A setting I’m sure many of us on here are familiar with.
I don’t want to ruin Siddhartha for anyone, but the lessons about balance resonated deeply with me as a Libra ♎️
Jan 20, 2024
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Yes I realize this is far more than one book, but I read all of these stories in very close succession & I believe they shaped me into the guy I am today. These are all very sensitive-young-man-core, but what can I say? I was a sensitive young man.
I have a very complicated relationship with Mother & Father. When I was first introduced to Kafka, it was like meeting my soulmate. I don’t have it in me to go into much detail at this moment, but being condemned to death by drowning for failing an aging father who can sense a deeply felt resentment; waking up one day to find you’ve turned into a disgusting bug after sacrificing so much for a family that cares so little— these are ideas that deeply rattled & resonated with me personally at the age that I read them. I resolved to try to live differently.
Death of Ivan Ilych was simply further exhortation for me to not live my life according to convention, to pursue wealth, status, family life for their own sakes. I think every single one of us has it in us to become an Ivan Ilych without even realizing. I was totally rapt & manic upon finishing this one I still am today, to some degree.
Portrait of the Artist really spoke to me as well. When Stephen looks at his father & realizes he’s a fool, and that he wants to be nothing like him. The moment when he sees the girl in the water & he becomes so horny he decides to dedicate his life to the pursuit of beauty, to aesthetics, to being an artist. The entire ending segment written as first person journal entries filled me with a lot of hope.
Emerson is the man. Great way to shock the materialist reductionist, the comformist, the busybody, & the consistent, conventional company man out of your system. Probably made me a more annoying person when alls said & done. Oh well.
May 12, 2024
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Read my grandfather’s old copy of this when I was like 12 and became a vegetarian for the next 10 years. Huge influence in my struggle to rise above the pain, sadness, and abject suffering of my adolescence…
May 12, 2024
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some of my favorite… transcendence quotes come from this book. it’s all about the joy and beauty of life in it’s seasons. i listen to the audiobook regularly if i’m stressed or restless. i recommend a second hand paperback, it’s just too good to not mark up. also, rereads go hard as fuck because different truths phase in and out in different periods of your life. a short must read.
Sep 28, 2024
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At the risk of sounding like a basic bitch, this shit is so real.
Going down your chart on co-star and breaking down the individual aspects of your personality and reflecting on how to adapt & change is so fascinating. I love it
Feb 20, 2024
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Crate Digging (digitally, I'm too broke to actually buy vinyl) can be a chore, and there are people out there who have been doing it for decades. NTS Radio 1 & 2 are both dope and usually between one of them I can find something I'm trying to hear
Otherwise, they have a ton of infinite radio stations that are dope... poolside is probably my favorite - I could always be at the beach
Sep 17, 2024
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subreddit for beginner DJing. youtube tutorials will be your friend.
Most will recommend a DDJ FLX400 or a similar type of controller...
my real question to you is why do you want to DJ if you think your music taste is "kinda-ok"?
Sep 17, 2024