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Chris Lavergne

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“You let me know that I'm the man that's pushing stones up the mountain, watch myself let them go — I can't admit.”
— Lowertown, At The End
Tagged: stones
“An unspoken ideal behind the quest for below-the-radar music is that somewhere out there, a random stranger might be churning out homemade songs that're better than the ones you can find through more established channels. The methods of discovery, the sub-genre descriptors, and the artist names change, but that faith in some undiscovered loner who defies the odds and draws a diehard following (at least somewhat) independently has remained constant”
— Marc Hogan, DSU
Tagged: Searching For Music
“I got drunk in the sports bar
In here nobody knows me
A double vodka and tonic
Looks like a glass of ice water…

Haven't you heard that I'm crazy?
Haven't you heard I quit drinking?
Haven't you heard I'll be dead soon?
Bury [marry] me in the sports bar…”
— Mathew Lee Cothran, Sports Bar
“There is a child inside you who's trying to raise a child in me.”
— Big Thief, Mythological Beauty
“And there is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love.”
— Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Tagged: Poetry, Creative Creating
“Even outside of dreams.”
— Big Thief, Mythological Beauty
Tagged: Beyond Limits
“I get it, I do. I had me a death wish too. I'm already late to be so destitute.”
— Billy Nomates, Blue Bones
“This is where Mary Harron’s comment hits: What is behind Tom Cruise’s eyes? What are behind the eyes of any of these artists whose skill is in pretending to be someone else? We think because they can pretend to be something, they understand what it means to walk in those shoes and have greater empathy, but do they? Or do they just have one superior skill — impersonation — and everything else is empty? Perhaps even nihilistically empty?”
— Creepy Catalog, Tom Cruise Movies: The Most Intense American Actor
Tagged: Tom Cruise
“If I could call grief by any other name I would call it a Trojan Horse. We think it looks a certain way, we think that we can assess it and measure it and create a human shaped space within our own bodies for it to take residence within. But just when we think we have it figured out, when it’s all organized neatly between our bones — it morphs, and unpacks itself, and we come to understand that it was never really as linear as it seemed, it was always going to take new form, to alter, to surprise us when we least expected it, to splinter off into the heart of us.”
— Bianca Sparacino, Grief Is The Most Honest Reflection Of Your Capacity To Love, So Please Embrace It
Tagged: Grief
“The need and desire to be close to another person can overtake logic and reason, creating an untenable and violent situation.”
— Alexandra West, Films of the New French Extremity
Tagged: Brutal Intimacy