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The Painter Who Didn't Finish Pictures.

"In the U.S., you cannot sign away your labor, legally; that’s indentured servitude. But you can sign away your intellectual property. That’s the music business."

— Damon Krukowski via @jordandavis3

"Why are you analysing the sickly secretion of a machine that has no aesthetic taste, has no aesthetic intention, that just oozes a strange frankenstein-glomp of motifs, ill-conceived symbology, poorly mishmashed concepts?"

"The Last Toast

I drink to our ruined home,
To my cruel life,
To our loneliness together —
And to you, I drink —
To the lips that betrayed me,
To your death-cold eyes,
To a world brutal and graceless,
And to God, who did not save us."

—Anna Akhamatova (tr Victoria Stoilova) via

"The ruling changed how all businesses had to value unsold stock, and for publishers, the effect was devastating."