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19 Apr

Prelude in E Minor, Mahogany, & Charcoal

Saint Orpheus0 CommentsWriting, , , ,
I hear in colors. My earliest accounts of listening to music all involve some sort of palette. If your first reaction is, "Wow, that's odd and probably would've been worth investigating", then your instinct is right. But when you grow up hearing rainbows pour out of every guitar and speaker, you too might normalize the unusual. It wasn't until after my 18th birthday that I first learned that audio stimuli didn’t create visual manifestations for everyone each time they turned pressed play on their iPods. I was scrolling through a popular Tumblr post when I noticed that people in the…
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15 Mar

The Neuroses of Hamelin

Saint Orpheus0 CommentsMental Health,
Don't you know when you have a friend over, and that friend absentmindedly puts her drink on the ground, except the ground is filthy, so the cup becomes filthy? And you don't say anything in the moment, choosing to carry on with conversation, but vigilant in monitoring the fate of that cup? (Where will it go next? What tables or surfaces might she move it to? What’s your game plan if she asks for a refill? How do you best handle the cup once she’s done?) And you have to have this 30-minute inner monologue take place in about 2.4…
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