who goes there, traveler?

this is an indefinite and very incomplete list of my muses (other than the Mind Field): bodies of water, old videos taken on digicam, everything Damian Ojeda has ever been a part of (Sadness, Comforting, etc.), things my friends say, things my friends make, Zamyatin, Labatut, Bolaño, wires, overgrown buildings and the writing that's usually on them, rural places, clearings in a forest, devices released between 2004 and 2009 (like the Nokia Megapixel or LG's VX-8000), the spikey-haired and spunky "teenage older brother/sister" archetype of the early 2000s, whom a younger, wide-eyed sibling might alternately loathe or look up to, my monthly playlists, things that dwell in lagoons, religion as commodity, the modern lack of acts of God

let's all go down to the creek

I have an instagram collection called psyclone, and I reference it more than any other of my digital archives. I have a lot of visual materials saved on other platforms, especially my pinterest and google drives - but this collection, although it's my most recent, is my personal favorite right now. In the past I've used Youtube playlists to collect video but i find that instagram allows me to find more obscure shit, especially in short-form. I have recently realized that short-form content is fire. A short-form video is kind of like a poem, as opposed to long-form content whose parallel might be closer to epics or prose. I love video so much. I really think videos are dreams somehow. Below is an example of something i'd save to psyclone, it's from the account @digicamvids.

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