I come to you this Thursday with my first aphorism of 2025, and news that the second Red Telephone album, ‘Delay the New Day’, hits digital shelves from midnight.
To violently wean you onto it, here’s a surrealist music video that we filmed for the song ‘Faithful’. Fighting, masks, religiosity, dancing. The human experience in under five minutes. A pretentious observer might call it Kafkaesque, and that’s absolutely fine by me.
Aphorism 22
“Culture isn’t some abstract force that we should just let happen to us, but something we should purposefully direct through a mix of resistance and bold contributions.”
The Thoughts of Others
“Cynicism is not a neutral position – and although it asks almost nothing of us, it is highly infectious and unbelievably destructive. Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. It says the world and its inhabitants have value and are worth defending. It says the world is worth believing in. In time, we come to find that it is so.” – Nick Cave
