Andrea Benito

Yeah, my friends who fascinate me the most are normally the crazy ones, the ones who burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Small Black of JagJaguwar Records has a new music video out for their poppy, shoegaze single “No Stranger.”

Poetry is something like normal prose accelerated, and Kanye West is a poet.

I really want you to know why I am the way I am.

Falling in love is passive. After all, it’s a falling movement. Standing in love is an altogether different beast.

It just happens so naturally, it seems.

“THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY LIFE.”

Millions of people want to be in the NBA. But only 500 or so people each year have what it takes to be in the NBA. And you know what? Half those players are on the bench all the time. This is how everything works and odds are that you aren’t talented enough to make it as a writer, a top-tier surgeon or lawyer, entrepreneur, or whatever.