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01's avatar

this is Trash.

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Astronautical's avatar

Read a few of your pieces and find them stale and derivative. Try hard.

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Katherine Dee's avatar

“The art itself is basically an afterthought.”

this has always been true— certain aesthetic qualities end being up durable though and they make it into the next set. This is the second article of this type I’ve read sort of marveling over how NY scenesters aren’t actually that talented but when has that ever not been the case, you know?

Anywhere there’s money and social climbing will have ingenuousness too— even 70s punks weren’t actually down for the cause. Their hair and jackets were cool though

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Lucas Venturoso's avatar

The whole Dimes Square thing is fucking gay, simple as. Oh, art should be le subversive! Instead of beautiful, transcendent and true. And all the fucking language games with the memes and buzzwords, fuck you, fuck the zeitgeist, fuck your scene. Great artists are born in prisons and in the solitude of their hearts. Simple as.

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SpaceRaceDandy's avatar

Whole sentiment is basically just "do better"

Enjoyed this piece

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Colin Pugh's avatar

do you have any examples of creatives types converting to Catholicism? I posted this on twitter as well but am going off social media for lent, so please let me know through here if you don't mind. would love to meet some of these people (I am a Brooklyn-based practicing Catholic for whom psychedelics helped bring me back to the faith)

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Joseph's avatar

Honor Levy and Walter Pearce

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John's avatar

Waugh

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42yoDallasDad's avatar

I was thinking "Dimes Square" sounded like Waugh if he were a boring coked-up rich kid... which he may have been for all I know, but he was better at it.

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John's avatar

Waugh was allegedly a good novelist. I say allegedly only because I don't really grasp the novel as an artform... I could also add Oscar Wilde (albeit on his deathbed) & several others among the british decadents. Oh yes, and Huysmans.

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Gary Namura's avatar

So you want a revival of socialist realist theater? Are you sure about that?

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Davis Hunt's avatar

Great read

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Thomas O’Dare's avatar

Fellow member of the “swagless Northern Virginia deep-state upper-middle class” out here!

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John's avatar

you guys are going along the same lines. they're worse than you, but they're what happens when you take your ideas to the end

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