Then Next Comes

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Pointless bonus trivia:

There's a great BBC series from a while back called A History of the World in 100 Objects – big recommend. A few years ago I was sat around being useless and miserable in my apartment and suddenly got the idea to do A History of the Future in 100 Objects instead, a scifi story from the perspective of a museum looking back on a million years of history – it seemed like a fun inversion of the original format. I worked on the script for a few weeks and almost liked it, but couldn't find the 'hook' for the thing and it fell apart like most silly ideas do.

A few years went by and I got a bit depresso and self-pitying about no new fun ideas turning up, and decided to go through some old scripts to see if there was anything else worth going back to. It all sucked, usual derivative rehashed ya de ya da. Then I stumbled on the museum thing again. It was a bit like getting a sudden unexpected and frankly undeserved tax rebate. With a few years of distance it was all terribly exciting for some reason, and when I tried to tie it up this time it more or less wrote itself when I got out of its way. I don't know why writing is like this sometimes, but it is often like this sometimes. It only operates on its own terms, and the more you order it to work, the less it cooperates. Sometimes things finish themselves in a day, sometimes they take a few years of not looking directly at them, sometimes they never pan out and it's never obvious why. Also I notice a guy called Adrian Hon already wrote A GODDAMN BOOK called The Future in 100 Objects in 2013, years before I started thinking about any of this, and I'm sure it's a great read and I hope he gets scurvy.

P.S - Sorry I was away a while. A new book is almost ready if that's something you care about but it took a spot of thinking offline for a bit. You'll be pleased to hear it's even more pretentious than the last ones.

The cat sends her regards. Is that a new haircut by the way? It really suits you if I may say so.

[Koopaperson]

"Shhhh...He's gonna say his first words!"
"Bullshit cancelling headphones"

[kristen]

I cant believe he spent 8 months building a time machine to warn us about the future

[jackclancy]

Petition to make this channel an internet time capsule to be opened in the 55th century

[Wicked]

Every time I think I’m a wordsmith; I come here to be humbled. This man deserves extreme success.

[hekkta]

I love how every sentence of this is a plot for a 3 hour film

[WiIko]

Born too late to explore Antarctica, but too early to do whatever was said in this video

[PaulBarber-ve]

An uncanny ability to arrange ordinary words into such an exquisite order they give a brief reassurance to us troubled ones. Thank you for ever.

[bothellpride]

“And soon they forgot they were ever humans, just as humans forgot they were ever fish”. I absolutely love this

[Bigworm]

“What are we but wanting, willing, dying things; out of the dirt, a little dance and back under”

[berry]

"To unlearn grass and sky in favour of where next and why" beautiful, just beautiful

[solalvergara]

Your writing has improved so much over the years I swear you've managed to nestle into a niche where punchlines make me tear up and existential outbursts of panic make me laugh, the association game that seems so random but instinctively congruent. Keep at it man I'm a huge fan and I can't wait for you to continue improving.

[iamabadger]

"Praying that for whoever comes after, there's laughter." Beautiful...

[cmdjl]

"Have you considered that maybe the day you declare yourself so old and wise that nothing new can ever happen again is exactly when you confirm when you're so young and ignorant you can't imagine the fantastic shape of what's coming next? It is your cynical certainty that reveals your youth" 🖋🔥🔥

[LukasDubeda]

This is art, philosophy and poetry consumed in a 21st century way.

[deepmalyadas]

"Stay Kind, Walk Good and Be..."

[penksglid]

The prequel to "and then we'll be okay"

EDIT: IT LITTERALY ENDED WITH A RANDOM AMBIGIOUS LADY ON A MOUNTAIN WISER THEN EVERYONE

[RED-slle]

Ai images must have made this guys job either easier or more stressful

[betterchapter]

It’s been 8 months since the last exurb1a video. I’m not okay.

[patriksandberg]

14:54 "How good it feels to find another mind just as strange as oneself and say 'I would like you by my side until my little race is run'"

I feel this. Holy fuck.

[yeonbinist]

“But strangely, as much as we can guess back on Earth from what they report—they’re all still _us._ For all they present, with tentacales and bumblebee wings, they still pee and argue, still party and mourn; everything that makes life what it is, all the weird worrying and terrible longing to belong, and why some weeks am I sad without reason, and how do I know a brave choice from a stupid one, and that morning. Why were you so cold with me? Did I offend you in a dream? And I walked you to work in that awful silence, the thing threshing like a bell between us, and when I came to meet you at the end of the day I was sure you were going to tell me you were leaving, when suddenly, you took my face in your hands and kissed me on the mouth so perfectly and by surprise my soul exploded right out the back of my head in way I’ve simply never been able to fold back inside, nor would I want to. What are we, but wanting, willing, dying things; out of the dirt, a little dance, then back under; mayfly creatures, twilight fandango; then cowering again to pray again that for whoever comes after, there’s laughter.”

this might be the best exurb1a video yet