Paul Cantor
@PaulCantor
Best-selling author. Journalist: New York Times, Vulture, Rolling Stone, XXL, VIBE, VICE, dozens of others. Music producer/songwriter. Documentarian.
Wanna write a book about peppers. They're the most interesting and versatile vegetable.
It dawned on me recently that 90% of Entourage came down to either "we can't find Ari" or "we can't find Vince."
You get more gratitude when you realize how tenuous everything really is.
Deep
the endpoint of capitalism: fake people listening to fake music to generate free money for the already wealthy while everyone else is cut out completely
The last rock star.
Francis Ford Coppola says he’s adding deleted dreams sequences and re-editing MEGALOPOLIS to make it “more weird” “It was [originally] more weird. I own the picture, I can do anything I want with it.” tinyurl.com/up3639y9
Ghostface Killah in Staten Island, NY. @GhostfaceKillah
Dostoevsky always hits hard
“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media….lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
Carl Sagan's prediction of America, made 30 years ago.
If you're in a situation and there are no elders around, you're in a bad situation.
I created chatgpt
need to just create an algorithm that writes huffington post-like stories based on keywords automatically. license it. become a millionaire
In the future adults will look back on their childhood friends and not say "we were in the same class" but rather "we were in the same algorithm."
Nothing is new.
Algorithm Judges Musical Hit Potential : Discovery News - http://shar.es/a5L0S
nobody talks about how the internet killed regional culture. everyone under 30 has the same personality now. your grandparents' generation had accents, local customs, regional humor. you have tiktok trends and twitter discourse.
long term, I think your kids will get more out of seeing you working hard than they will out of you hovering over them every five seconds.
"Haul" culture is terrible. People buying shit just to buy it. Disgusting.
The gym isn’t a hobby of mine. It’s a bare minimum daily task like brushing teeth. Hobbies are social. You do them with friends and your world grows. I see too many guys making the gym their entire personality and they wonder why they have no motion. Exercise and move on.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. Bri