A few ideas have been swimming around in my head for the past month or so:
- pleasure-maximizing or pain-minimizing?
All through my life, I’ve been programmed to choose the latter rather than the former. How regrettable.
I guess one of my biggest recent/college revelations is that I really can walk away from the beaten path. Maybe a few roaches will run up my legs in the wild. (ew, ew, ew, ew, EWWW.) Maybe it will be extremely unpleasant and upsetting … but at least I will survive. Somehow.
The question now, though, is where I am going.
Perhaps “more pleasure and more pain” is better than “less pleasure and less pain.” At least I’ll feel like I’m living … truly, madly, deeply, living.
Ryan McGinley's Metamorphosis
- art, art, art…
In all its glorious forms — the above photo, the free Kerouac prose, the joy bursting from Animal Collective’s delicate yet mushy songs, a piano cover of Radiohead that gets people talking about the “jazziness” of Bach…
… = life, life, life.
- growing old, growing young and growing up.
Growing old — the physical inevitable
Growing young — the mental desire
Growing up — the intellectual urge
??
Also, last but not least,
I stumbled upon a treasure trove that combines my love for music, art and interesting interviews. It’s a website about the art on CD covers. What a shame that it is now dead, but here it is, with its glorious past: http://sleevage.com/
