“I only wish you could just spend five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel.” Continue reading
La Habanera dances in the streetsAnd like every nightPedro Comacho sells peanutsOutside the Tropicana Club Continue reading
TMBG are still good at writing about everyday things that nobody else writes about. I have often woken up with a strong feeling — disquiet, or happiness, or yearning — from a dream that I can’t recall. And this song … Continue reading
The first half of the book is dizzying — stupid — hilarious — it’s a series of seemingly random impressions, vignettes, observations and ideas of a narrator who is an Internet celebrity and is steeped in Internet culture. Continue reading
It seems to me that the world is set up in such a way as to give men an unfair advantage. (Lucky me.) And not just because they are men — more because the world is set up so that … Continue reading
This is an excellent and wide-ranging description of the genesis of existentialism. It includes descriptions of all the major figures you have heard of, like Sartre, de Beauvoir and Camus, and further back to the likes of Heidegger and Nietzsche … Continue reading