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1 week ago | 
splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings
Harold Budd: My expectation is exactly what happened: It was total chaos, total confusion. No one knew anything, including me. I didn’t have a clue.
Yaa Gyasi: I’m hunkered down in Brooklyn and trying to make sense of what the next few months will look like.
Budd: It wasn’t an alien thought. That was the start of a change.
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2 weeks ago | 
splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings
Brian Eno: All that formula and repetition is like a great big vehicle for carrying the moment of difference — the tiny point where something happens that didn’t happen before.
Elizabeth Becker: The unpredictability has never frustrated me.
Eno: I know. I tend to be nervous about everything.
Becker: You put your intention onto the page, just like you put your intention out into the universe, but you cannot control the results.
Eno: Oh, that’s interesting.
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3 weeks ago | 
splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings
Timothy Snyder: I don’t know what my Twitter password is.
Nick Denton: And I think that would be the absolute best outcome.
Snyder: The meaningfulness of little individual choices is there, you know?
Denton: Correct. You see it on TikTok, the American tourists arriving in some place, marveling at how low the rents are, whether it’s Medellín or Lisbon or—
Snyder: Sad is exactly right.
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4 weeks ago | 
splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings
Paul Mooney: The check is not in the mail, the stagecoach is not coming. It’s all bullshit.
Mary Midgley: But they didn’t get used to that in the hinterland of the United States.
Mooney: Listen, I knew when to get out of there.
Midgley: Imagery is terribly important, you see.
Mooney: Oh yeah. Of course. The person is somewhere else.
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1 month ago | 
splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings
Gene Hackman: We know where we’re going.
Quinta Brunson: We are not playing—you know?
Hackman: No, not at all. Fifty takes and all that.
Brunson: I just refuse to be inhibited.
Hackman: Yes. Yes, you listen and something happens with you while you're listening, and then you give something back.
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1 month ago | 
splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings
Emma Amos: Well, we were all confused at that time. I was just so nervous and it was awful.
Billy Woods: Well, it depends. Will you be able to make it to the funeral?
Amos: No. Yes. I don’t know.
Woods: You don’t know if you’re going to win.
Amos: You just couldn’t. And it’s all a drag and so boring to be associated with that.
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Woods: Why?
Amos: Because I’m not interested in angles so much now.
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1 month ago | 
splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings
Octavia Butler: I got on a Greyhound bus and took a Greyhound Ameripass tour, which means that for a month I could go wherever I wanted to on Greyhound.
Ashley Bryan: Yeah. The motion of it. It goes from seventy to about four or five hundred when the cottages around the shore are all occupied.
Butler: Some of them are worth something.
Bryan: Good. But that wide, deep depth is also very holding.
Butler: We’d encourage each other back and forth going to the top.
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2 months ago | 
splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings
Kerry James Marshall: We begin with a set of givens. There is no ontology, no beginning.
Steve Toltz: Without that you’re just neurotic and uncomfortable.
Marshall: Are we talking about a metaphor or a forensic description?
Toltz: Absolutely. Have you been to your high school reunion yet?
Marshall: Most of us haven’t been eyewitnesses to any of those events.
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2 months ago | 
splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings
Billy Corgan: If you say in an interview that you feel misunderstood, people kinda throw their hands up in the air and say, “Jesus Christ, what does that fucking mean?”
Tori Amos: Absolutely, and don’t think that I haven’t done that, because I have.
Corgan: To pretend it's not propaganda is a mistake.
Amos: Maybe?
Corgan: [makes heavenly sound] I don’t know.
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Amos: I’m talking your ear off right now, but most of the time I’m not talking. You need to be prepared.
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2 months ago | 
splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings
Parker Posey: There’s a TV broadcasting images of the end of the world in the bar where the dogs play poker, and the commercial breaks are long-form interviews of great thinkers and artists giving advice on how to save the planet.
Beck Hansen: It’s funny. It’s alive. It’s this beautifully maddening experiment of trying to translate this feeling you have about how you want to connect with people in the real world.
