happy new year

in: - sentience, being embodied - boy crazy, yearning, longing (but NOT simping) - writing down my day + night dreams - funk - beastie boys + 90s hip hop - mouthwash - perfume - fishnets - skins (uk) - lip pencil - chunky glitter - cyberpunk - keanu reeves - bdsm/kink - animated media (i.e. anime, cartoons) - sculpture - taking language classes - psychedelics - adderall - shakespeare - hito steyerl - czech new wave films - classical music out: - lukewarm coffee - napping - reality tv - expensive body lotion - natural toothpaste, natural deodorant, etc. - dried flowers - literary + art criticism - marriage, heteronormative monogamy, etc. - aspirational aesthetics + living practices (think alison roman) - cookbooks + food media influencers - personal essays - cocaine - cottagecore - overhead lighting - electoral politics - manhattan - jia tolentino and jt-adjacent affects, writing styles, and moral relativism - "there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism" - comedy of manners films about the bourgeoisie - rose (the wine) - the experience economy