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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 4h

Anne Carson & Jamaica Kincaid, I will avenge you.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 15h

same genus (different species) as people who claim to like classical music but think the canon ends with Ravel.

Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 16h

the average middlebrow theatregoer would be annihilated upon contact with their first production at La MaMa.

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 20h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 1d

Here, have 6000 words on Yasunari Kawabata: libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...

The High Art of Distance - Liberties

“Art, of course, lives in history,” said Elizabeth Hardwick. By which she meant that a novel emerges in its own time, and changes in its passage to our own. This — the likeness which is also an unlike...

libertiesjournal.com

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

that Princess Chelsea album from a few years back still slaps btw.

Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

putting my inner child in the Omelas hole as punishment.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

went too far down the yaoi slop rabbit hole on tik tok, I’m getting edits of NHL players, I want off the fucking ride.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll start compiling some. Personal favourite is that she addressed everyone with the more formal “vous” instead of “tu,” including her pet dog.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

Marguerite Yourcenar loved Bon Dylan

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Erin Somers @somers.bsky.social · 2d

New story by me in Granta today about inept swingers on the Hudson Valley granta.com/pleasantries...

Pleasantries

‘Her body looked good in that sumptuous way. He was not always attracted to her anymore, but he was attracted to her in this moment, and there was something noble about this, generous – he was about t...

granta.com

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

the remix goes crazy, too

youtu.be/Zqae5qyopok?...

Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Remix) (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by UPROXX Indie Mixtape

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

Charli: you suck up all the oxygen in the room and you poison everything you touch.

Taylor: you’re a cokehead and too spineless to say anything about me directly

Tori Amos, bellowing over a harpsichord: COURTNEY LOVE IS A UNTALENTED STARFUCKER

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

it‘s kind of funny watching people act like Charli and Taylor’s beef is anything serious. Tori Amos set the bar pretty high when she dropped Profesional Widow and nobody’s ever coming close.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

day seven of sober october,,, I’ve developed clairvoyance and have spent more time writing, which is nice.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

I’m going to stay logged off twitter, but stay online here because there’s less to doomscroll & I also can’t cut myself off completely from posting and alcohol for all of october.