hi hello i post dog. this guy, specifically:
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he loves you, and hopes you love yourself too. i want him to be a candle in the dark, i.e. not really doing much, sure, but still there. something to hold onto if you need it.
One of my fav Byrne quotes is from his cycling memoir related to his experience of living in a hippie dome commune and struggling with it:
I eventually lost focus on the dome project and ended up busking with another friend on the streets of Berkeley—he played accordion, I played violin and ukulele and struck ironic poses. It was successful. I realized that at that time I was more interested in irony than utopia.
"Yup, that's fancy driving alright" he says, wiggling a steering wheel forward and back, turning left and right, in a 1950s cabriolet set in front of a projector screen.