Thepretentiousacademic - Quality And Beauty In The Everyday

Norway

© R. Söthje

walks around the dashboard with my hands behind my back like someone's grandpa

Billionaires are a disease, not a success.

Robber barons of yore built hospitals and libraries, established public parks and museums. They felt bad for stealing.

Note: Andrew Carnegie built 1700 libraries across America.

Today's unethical and ruthless mega-rich do nothing.

"The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get."

Today's aesthetic is cassette futurism

Forest in the Fog

finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING

look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth

A couple of years ago I had a coworker who asked why I collected vinyl because I had just got done telling him that I didn't really care about the "sound quality" thing that most people talk about when they talk about vinyl. (I like the tone of records but it's not why I like records)

My response was almost exactly this. Vinyl almost forces you to listen to an album as a whole. You can skip around on cd's, you don't even have to buy entire mp3 albums and can opt instead for single song purchases. And streaming services? You don't even have to pay for the music. Records are bulky, they're a commitment.

There's a physicality, a ritual, a performance that needs to take place when you listen to records. At least once an album you have to flip the record over and place the needle to the groove.

The album flows as the artist intends it to. The thought they put into which track goes where is evident.

If you're in to music I highly recommend listening to albums as a whole.

please listen to albums someitmes youll be amazed at what an artists songs do when theyree in an order they made. for you to listen to. etc