/culture/ - arts & literature

I love thrifting!! I get all my DvDs and CDs from thrift stores. Clothes sometimes too, it's hard to find cool clothes in my thrift stores though :(

Sometimes I thrift for old technology and I repair it but not so much for clothes. I did thrift for a shoulderbag that I still use, excellent quality and resistance despite being very used by the time I got it. Love the thing and it fits my religious texts perfectly in width and length.

I've been meaning to check out thrift stores. I'm in a college town, so there should be some good stuff especially when the end of the semester hits and tons of kids graduate. But I always keep putting it off, thinking I can just do it some day later.

Good find.
I used to go thrifting more but I accumulated too many clothes.

I found a crt for 30$ at a university surplus shop 2 months back :3

>>1536
>He was, by the way, exceptionally handsome, above average in height, slim, with beautiful brown eyes and dark brown hair

TAKE ME ALREADY PLEASE NNGH

>>1536
I'm listening

Just finished "The People in the Trees" by Hanya Yanigihara. I enjoyed it. Her writing can be prosaic. After I finished it I read about the author's life and it was interesting noticing how much of her own life experiences she put into the book (father was a doctor, she's Hawaiian). I also ended up reading about the real life doctor her character was based on - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek. What a story! I picked up "A Little Life" by her but not sure if I want to read that next… Might read "Moby Dick" since I've actually never read it. I also have "Myth of Sisyphus" sitting at my bedside.

I'm presently reading through "That's How They Get You", as are other members of the book club I'm in.

Well, I just finished reading Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.
…I have to say, I'm glad I read it.

I feel a bit better about myself. I read a "classy" book. I read something that well-read people read, so that was good. I actually did read something. I feel like there's this seemingly endless list of things I "should" read, and I've read one thing, so that was good, but yeah, I had to read Wikipedia's article on the short story in order to really understood what I read.
I was thinking whilst reading - even if Tlon is a world where the existence of things depends upon it being perceived, where is this going?
I suppose there was something interest that happened in the story which is when a drunk man is found dead, and at the site of his corpse is a collection of coins and a strange object that had up until this point only been described in the Encyclopaedia of Tlon. It felt like something out of that Control videogame with that "Jesse Faden" woman. This mysterious object that nobody understands is now present in our realm. But I suppose it's not meant to be like that. That object is possibly in the encyclopaedia of Tlon, since it was recognised to be from Tlon.
The conformity of the world to Tlon was a bit disappointing as well, as it seemed like more and more people were just obsessed with learning about it. The mysterious aspect of Tlon-objects appearing in the world wasn't really the driving mechanism like I hoped it would have been, with more objects from Tlon spontaneously appearing. Instead, there's just more intense study on Tlon.

After reading about the short story on Wikipedia, I've come to conclude that being a Borges fan is predicated upon being a literature fan. You have to be in the know about all of the latest ideas and theories and whatnot. That's how it seems to me. The short story makes reference at one instant to an idea of "Hume". I believe that's David Hume? I've never read Hume - not a single word. I just know that he's an important philosopher, and that for me as a Catholic, a potential enemy (supposedly he argued that the soul should serve the desires of the flesh).

That's my run-through with this short story. I don't know if I'll read more Borges. I probably will, as I'll bring myself to read the books I ought to, but I think, for fun, I'll turn to Light Novels instead.
Although perhaps the other short stories might be more entertaining? I'm curious as to whether or not I'll like them. Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

I enjoy reading blogs, but they can be hard to keep up with. It motivated me to start using RSS more, but many sites don't have a feed.

i love blogs, especially reading old ones from the 2000s or 2010s that are long since dead. its almost nostalgic. i do want to create my own blog, but i'm unsure what service to use… blogspot? tumblr? medium..? if anyone can point me in the right direction i'll be grateful thanks thanks

>>1624
I want to start a blog too. I've been thinking of using bearblog. You can check it out.

>>1541
I do have a blog. Personal blogs + rss > "social" media

I've been thinking of starting my own blog for some time. A place to share my thoughts, musings, reviews, etc.
I feel like it's partially an influence of my time on Lainchan and my time watching Luke Smith's videos that I want to do something more inline with how the internet used to be. But yeah, having my own website where I post my thoughts feels like a nice idea.
"The internet was at its best when it was a place for people who read books" is the sentiment I've internalised from those two aforementioned sources. For me to be more of a reader, and to share my musings on my website, would be cool! :D

Some of the movies I enjoyed recently:

Leon the Professional, The Orphan, Lolita 1997, Lamb, Moonrise Kingdom, Innocence, Hanna, Mustang, Pretty Baby, Yulenka, Curfew, Show Me Love, Alice in the Cities, A Little Princess, Water Lillies, F-Report, The Blue Lagoon, Laurin(89), Sleepwalking, Matilda, You Were Never Really Here, Lawn Dogs, Take Me to the River, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Stray Dogs, Spirit of the Beehive, Stephanie, The Taste of Tea, Hounddog, Bridge to Terabithia, The Beguiled, God Bless America, Somewhere, Alice(88), City of lost children, Cape Fear(62), Arcadia, Tomorrowland, Christiane F, Walkabout, The Florida Project, My Girl(91), Addams Family Value, Young Aphrodites, The Ice Palace, Swing vote, Tideland, Bad Seed, Cocoon, Annabele: Creation, the opening scene of Desire, Phoebe in Wonderland, Gifted, Spark, Caspe, Because of Winn-dixie, Zazie dans le metro, Amanda, Waterworld, What Maisie Knew, Paper Moon, Sundays and Cybele, Hideous Kinky, Svanurinn, Miss Violence, the Troop Zero, Ana, Tuck Everlasting, System Crasher, Angela 1995, Alice Sweet Alice, Romys Salon, The Trouble with Being Born, Midnight Sky, Jeanne d'Arc, News of the world, Ich liebe Victor, Eyes of an Angel, the Secret Garden 1993, Usagi Drop, The Tree of Knowledge, A Mother’s Heart, Luiz de Mana, Little Lips, Malodelacenza, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Push, The Gray Man, Arabella the Pirate's Daughter, Adventures of The Yellow Suitcase, The Quiet Girl, Logan, Aftersun, M3gan and L'immoralita

Persepolis is trash and all the people who like it are demented

>>1680
Did you like Waterworld? I was talking about it with some friends recently. I thought it was ass ngl but the premise was interesting, the film itself wasn't.

>>1682
Wait, I just realized the trend of these films they listed. sushi roll is a troll.

>>1683
I am sorry, it was funny. I did watch Waterworld long time ago, and almost slept through it.

>>1671
Thank you! I agree, I got the other one when I was much younger and my tastes have changed a lot.

And sure. I'm still learning but here is one from this morning.

>>1656

No, I incestuously shizopost on uboachan.

>>1675
*schizopost, mb

>>1675

OP here

Now that i think about it, you know what would be absolutely COOL sushi??

Take screenshots of your uboachan posts, print them, and plaster them on a diary

>>1678
I think my parents would sodomize me with a sledgehammer

baka

>>1436
very cute pink baka

>>1436
Yeah i agree with that other sushi roll, this is cute, good job

>>519
cute!!!

i hate drawing so much its unrea l

Hmm this is very interesting. I too enjoy drawing flowers sometimes so I appreciate this post.

Some of the better roses I have sketched. I’m usually just doing these in 30 minutes while im doing reports and stuff so i just use pen instead of artists pencils. I have a set lying around at home but I cant find them right now : (
But ink on paper is a neat medium in its own right.

More progress. I will keep going until I draw 100 and give them away on Valentine’s Day.

I tried wah

Its not easy and it takes patience.

Snippet of an old song I wrote a long time ago.