who up in a kafka-esque rut sleep deprived, casually malnourished, socially awkward, painfully self-conscious, struggling financially, lacking community, altogether anhedonic

1976 Steve Wonder Songs in the Key of Life Billboard, Times Square. (via: Barney Hurley)

Stevie Wonder circa 1975.

MEG STALTER: I also feel very jealous of whoever he works with next. And I said it's specific to us being a duo. So if I saw Paul with some funny fat girl, I would start to be sick to my stomach and I feel like I would start maybe not texting him back. Maybe I feel like I would be mad at him and I would feel like I would be upset with him and I would maybe start unliking some of the likes that I've given him online.  PAUL W. DOWNS: If she's in another comedy duo, I am committing vehicular manslaughter. I am absolutely not even just saying…I am doing damage to the world. I'm upset. [x]

— Michel Houellebecq, Platform

that night, frog and toad were both happy

my favorite block on the aids quilt

Tsai Ming-liang’s “愛情萬歲” (Vive l’amour) September 2, 1994.

Vive L'Amour(1994), dir. by Tsai Ming-liang

Vive L’Amour (1994) dir. Tsai Ming-liang