David Lynch has a variety of notions about what it takes to make art, but suffering is not among them. “This is part of the myth, I think […] the more you suffer, the less you want to create. If you’re truly depressed, they say, you can’t even get out of bed, let alone create.”

~ Colin Marshall, from David Lynch Explains Why Depression Is the Enemy of Creativity–and Why Meditation Is the Solution

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The cure for depression? My experience is that the only thing that works to avoid depression, in the long run, is meditation.

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https://constantine.name/2024/07/20/on-depression-and-meditation/

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"Asked why I moved from the United States to South Korea, I often say that it was because I wanted to live in the First World. Though it began as a half joke, the coronavirus' Stateside rampage has granted it a new and discomfiting plausibility."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-comforts-of-south-koreas-coronavirus-response

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'A way of learning from everything': the rise of the city critic

Criticism of food and the arts has long flourished. In our increasingly urban world, perhaps city criticism should be recognised as distinct and necessary

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/17/a-way-of-learning-from-everything-the-rise-of-the-city-critic

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“Blade Runner,” Los Angeles, Asia, and the Urban Future on Film

http://blog.colinmarshall.org/?p=4739

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"Here I go again, I think whenever I find myself going on another jag about Westerners in Korea not bothering to learn the Korean language. I feel the point's sliding into schtick, but I also feel something else: not speaking a country's language can be a sign of great power."

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https://twitter.com/colinmarshall/status/1184705379218800640

Akira Kurosawa, Haruki Murakami, Hayao Miyazaki, Ukiyo-e

are all categories of Colin Marshall's Open Culture posts on Japan, cataloged here: http://blog.colinmarshall.org/?p=4685

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"For nearly seven years now, I’ve written a post every weekday at Open Culture, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, television, radio, or language. The total comes to more than 1800 so far, and here are ten of my favorites from the more than 250 I wrote in 2018"

http://blog.colinmarshall.org/?p=4571

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