Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Once you die, that’s it. You (most likely) don’t have to deal with it. But there is nothing that sucks more than the death of someone you love. At least when you die, you’re at peace. But when a family member dies, it is the closeness to them that makes it the suckiest thing that can happen. But it happens…
Frida Kahlo suffered with polio as a child and then with disabling injuries as an adult following a traffic accident. Yet, despite all her trials she managed to capture the colour and life that was present in her (despite her obstacles) and in life (as well as in Mexico). The Broken Column is a clear window into what it was like being,…
It may not be useful, or a life worth living, if you go about your usual day imagining the worst is going to happen. That sounds like a bullshit kind of life. But imagining tragedy–the things you most don’t want to– can lead to you being prepared for (and happy with) anything that happens in your life: Don’t know what…
In Y Tu Mamá También, as part of their manifesto, the Charolastras believe that ‘The Truth is cool, but unattainable’. But that doesn’t mean you can’t try to attain it. And it may not be about learning what’s truth and then confirming it over and over, it might be more important to eliminate what is not. So think of the perfect relationship,…
Is an ambition-free life, one ‘free’ of dreams a meaningless one? Is existence completely in the present a purposeless one? In Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, a man is sentenced to death by firing squad but minutes before he’s shot, he is pardoned. In those minutes expecting his death though, he realises how incredible and eternally beautiful the simplest things are. So…
I will never know everything about you. And you won’t know me. It’s impossible to know what it’s like to truly be someone else, to know why they are afraid of what they are, why they worry about what they do, and why they want what they do. The entire aggregation of all the feelings and experiences that someone has…
Mexico is weird, and insane, and fucked up at times, but it’s also a place of great warmth, openness, vibrancy, colour and life. It makes you feel like you’re home, even though you may be continents away from where yours actually is. That’s why Mexico is fucking great. It may be chaotic and do your head in, but it’s like…
There is nothing that is as useless as the pursuit of legacy. To be remembered when you’re not living, by people in the future, many of who haven’t been born yet. So instead of trying to be remembered as ‘great’ or successful, ‘Fall Glimmer, Sparkle and Fade’. At the end of The Outsider, and in maybe my favourite piece of writing ever,…
Why the hell are there about exactly million songs written about some state (just 1 of 50) that stretches for about 850 miles along the Pacific Ocean, in the south west corner of a huge ass country that’s as big as Europe (minus Russia and all that)? It’s because California isn’t only a place. It actually is a state of mind.…
Think of any fictional character. They all wrestle with desires, motivations, worries and fears similar to yours (they may just have 1 or 2 more superpowers). They are remarkable in how unremarkable they are. That’s what makes their stories universally relatable (even Superman and Harry Potter sprung from abandonment issues). You are a star in your own book. in your…