Dan Lopatin goes deep on generational identity, leaving the city, and the owl from ‘Twin Peaks.’
2023/11/21
If tranquility is what you seek, or some level of remove from this kind of cybernetic reality—or heavily industrialized reality— that you’re running from, then you truly do need to be uncomfortable with that quiet. Part of the quiet is the uncomfort of it. It is scary. It is the owl in ‘Twin Peaks.’
I’m not crazy about [post-rock]. I don’t like it that much. But I like what it stands for quite a bit.
I feel like if you have everything at your disposal, you actually end up doing nothing. Like, the object petit a of watching Netflix is the choosing of the thing, and not the watching. The object a of Spotify is collecting titles and then forgetting about them.