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A field guide through the corners of the world worth actually visiting, not repeating — so that your next opinion is yours.
i hate that all my sources of research are coming from people making reels on the internet. i need opinions and thoughts of my own.
Why we started this page
Taste is not a library of references. It is the muscle of responding to something and being able to say exactly why.
Before adding a single new input, interrogate what you already love. The songs you replay. The outfit that feels like armour. Not why do you like it — that question is lazy. But: what does this do that the thing next to it does not?
Go narrow, not wide. Not art but Italian radical design of 1966; not music but Ethio-jazz of the 1969–74 golden age. Two to three weeks per corner. Primary sources only. Write a paragraph. Defend it. Revise it.
It keeps expanding — new corners, new voices, new things to mistakenly love.
Have a specific obsession, a half-forgotten essay, an artifact you think belongs here?
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Pick one volume and disappear into it.
Two to three weeks. Primary sources only. Come back when you can tell me, in specific sentences, what the thing does — and what it does that the thing next to it doesn't.