I Am Toward You | How To Dress Well | PhD (the problem of nihilism and the prospect of non-nihilistic metaphysics in jacobi and hegel) | friend to the undertow

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“Contingency/Necessity (Modality of Fate)” OUT NOW!!! found.ee/HTDW-CNMF “Doing 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 in the shrine room at the Buddhist monastery, I wonder if I’ve ever made a single right decision.” I Am Toward You in 9 days 🫀
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Chanel beads tyler Richard so beautiful
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“the only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own false self” Incredible new track from @HowToDressWell x @nickleon found.ee/htdw-totjoe
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Rip Annie Dillard you were so inspiring to me
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Yessss new music from HOW TO DRESS WELL × NICK LEÓN @nickleon found.ee/HTDW-TOTJOE "the only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own false self" This is the second time Nick has remixed HTDW, but calling this one a remix doesn't quite capture what we got here. It's a new, nearly ten-minute bangarino: pure Ibiza true joy 4am, Villalobos sweating through tee shirt, the windows at panorama bar opening type vibe. The original is a sparse vocal mantra from my record I Am Toward You built around a line of@mystical poetry from Thomas Merton: "The only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own false self." to me, this line names the shared purpose of love, psychoanalysis, prayer, dancing, singing, and really any genuine attempt at transformation of self: gaining that revelatory distance from the person you have, through repetition and @drudgery, confused yourself for. the shadow you've deluded yourself into mistaking for your true self falls away and true joy enters. I sent Nick the song with this idea of making it severely and ecstatically patient and entrancing. tension accumulates for a long time, then the whole thing breaks open. We passed the tune back and forth until it became something neither of us could have made alone, then trayer mixed it and Zac mastered it. Rave music mantra for ten minutes let's go. The Only True Joy on Earth - Nick León True Joy 4am Mix. #escape #ecstasy #ibiza #trance #mysticism
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My overwhelming sense about everything (all of it) is that everyone is either understating or overstating everything. This becomes clear when you read something really intelligent, comprehensive and focused, like @bognamk or Phil Neel
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i meant to tell Claude to "consider all angles" but i accidentally typed "consider all angels." it's been thinking for 47 minutes with no sign of stopping, and now my laptop is making an unearthly wailing
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Incredibly sick to me that one of my besties blurbed one of the ~3 most iconic and permanently relevant texts of contemporary civilization lol every time I see it in a store I’m just beaming fr
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Hopefully she just means the yeastie boys truck
I'm sorry Karen Bass wants taco trucks GONE in Los Angeles of all places? Does she even live in the city!?
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the long-rumored 3,958-word exegesis / lore-trove for my record I Am Toward You is finally online---a philosophical-biographical map of the record
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In which I also talk about how sick jefre cantu-ledesme is
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i’ve put every How To Dress Well EP from 2009–2010 back online: the complete MP3 archive for dl and a mildly buggy player I made for streaming. sharing these eps isn’t an exercise in nostalgia i just wanted to bring them back into circulation because they feel alive to me now, and because returning to them has become part of the route into my next record. for paid subscribers:
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