Angela Lane — Chromosphere (oil On Birch Plywood, 2023)

Romeo Gigli velvet coat in Vanity, Ottobre 1989. Photographed by Alistair Taylor-Young. Headpiece by Simon Costin.

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

Mary Oliver, from "In Blackwater Woods" in American Primitive

Just realized I've never given an upgrade on this. Well. They did announce. I am most likely not going because 1) unsuitable date 2) it's a festival 3) expensive tickets 4) even more expensive accommodation 5) I don't listen to them that much anymore so I can probably live with that

January so bad only nine inch nails announcing a show in my country could save it

I think the most fundamental thing you can do to be a decent human being is to understand and respect the fact that not everyone feels and thinks in the same way that you do.

Patricia Morrison, 1978.

"Thou Shalt Not", 1940 photograph by Whitey Schafer, made in protest of the then-current motion picture censorship Hays Code. The photograph deliberately breaks many of the "rules" of the code, listed in the upper right corner.

January so bad only nine inch nails announcing a show in my country could save it

01-19-2025, 8 PM

Tonight I've realized I have free will and can do whatever the hell I want, isn't that awesome?