the pilot and the mosh pit // reasons to read

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  • @FelixEvers06
    @FelixEvers06 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    "Saint Ex would mosh right now" is an absolutely unhinged quote out of context, I love it

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      yeah it’s strange what can pass through your head in certain moments XD

  • @laurenfutch6801
    @laurenfutch6801 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    The Lord of the Rings trilogy inspired me to write a themed murder mystery that all of my friends had to participate in (in costume, of course). I’m sure some of them weren’t as excited to dress up and embrace their given character (like I was), but I appreciated that they still participated and enjoyed trying something new.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      my favorite part was Paul in the Legolas wig. By far

  • @ionanotmid
    @ionanotmid 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    i seriously thought you'd have thousands of views and subscribers... this was one of the most impactful videos i've watched in a while, i can't wait to see how far you'll go.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      thank you so much! :) I’m very much enjoying sharing my thoughts and it’s been so great to hear that they’re resonating with people. this is #5 and I’ll see how many more I have in my system. thanks for the encouragement!

  • @pfutch1
    @pfutch1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    My dad took me on a camping trip floating down the Suwanee river for a couple days after we read Huck Finn.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      what an awesome idea. thanks Paul for inspiring the whole episode !

  • @banjobonanza8495
    @banjobonanza8495 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    This video was so inspiring to me. I've lived most of my life with debilitating social anxiety and seeing this gave me some inspiration to talk to people today, so thank you (:

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      wow that makes this whole process worth it for me. I’m glad for you! and also don’t forget that participation doesn’t always mean extroversion so don’t feel like you need to perform. but I’m very glad it encouraged you :) thanks for sharing!

  • @zackhendrix4957
    @zackhendrix4957 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    The Solace of Open Spaces and Sailing Alone Around the World both fell into my lap via public "take a book, leave a book" boxes in different states. Read em both last spring/summer in the most difficult season of my life and they were instrumental in teaching me the importance of solitude and exploring-- getting out of your comfort zone!!! (oh let's buy a plane ticket on a thursday and fly to TN on a saturday to pick up an old van and drive it to FL!)

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      those both sound terrific. might look at sailing alone around the world - sounds inspiring! love how books don’t have to be directly instructional to instruct you in your own life.

  • @mellie4414
    @mellie4414 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    thanks for a timely video. recently, i've been feeling isolated by my own hand, and i'm struggling to take action in my life. in small ways i've been working on facing fears and forcing myself to engage with the world. a book i consistently reflect on in this vein is A Gentleman in Moscow, with the quote: “if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.”
    the main character is bound to spend the rest of his life in a hotel, yet he still maintains his dignity and quests for meaning. i need to remember i am not limited so much by my environment as i am myself.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      thank you for sharing and for engaging with this video! you got this :) remember too that engaging really can be small actions or even just presence, it doesn’t have to be mosh pits!

  • @timgehrsitz3267
    @timgehrsitz3267 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I had the EXACT same experience at a concert I went to, I went for the opener who was not at all a hardcore punk artist, so when the first chord played and I got swept 20 feet forwards and 20 feet back I was completely out of my element, but I was laughing like a maniac because it was just so funny. I left because I had a fragile camera, but as I left I realized I should've found a place to store the camera and go participate. This is an awesome video

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      wow that really is the exact same experience. glad to know I’m not the only one. and I maybe should have put my phone away instead of filming … pretty sure there was a high risk of dropping it and losing or breaking it. But I wanted the footage to show how it felt so I risked it. Didn’t know I’d make this video then, but the footage sure came in handy. Thanks for watching & I hope you enjoy the rest of the series! (Even the ones that don’t have music references!)

  • @summer-bg4lr
    @summer-bg4lr 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    thank you for (probably) changing my life stranger

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      that makes me so happy to hear. thanks for participating with me!

  • @SlimedogYT
    @SlimedogYT 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Its awesome the way you express the idea of participating in life. Some things can be scary or maybe you are not sure if you are going to like it, but just the willingness to try to participate in something opens you up to a lot more things and enjoyment from life. Being someone who has gone to hundreds of metal shows and rock concerts it's hard to look back at what it was like before participating in a mosh pit or just being allowed and aggressive concert. But after the first time you get in there it gets a lot easier and you realize how much fun it actually is, and you have some experiences where maybe it's a little more rough than you would expect and maybe you come out with a bruise or two but you survived, you did the thing, and for the most part you had fun. I'm glad that you could get so much from this book about participating in life and it's cool that the participation you took part in was just being in a mosh pit, it doesn't always have to be some grand life-altering experience sometimes it's as simple as just move in your body to some music, or playing human pinball with other sweaty people. Great video!

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      thanks for watching and your thoughts! I’ve been told there are much more aggressive mosh pits than the one I was part of, so jury’s still out on whether I’ll attempt another. But metaphorically, I’m all about the mosh pit now :) Yeah it doesn’t have to be a giant experience! Maybe even trying a new restaurant instead of the same thing every time. Thanks for watching!

  • @shittymcrvids3119
    @shittymcrvids3119 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A huge mosh pit and book enjoyer, this is so true

  • @jezswly919
    @jezswly919 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    i really really really, REALLY like this video. excited to watch the rest now

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      hey thanks! :) I really really appreciate it!

  • @stephenfutch3327
    @stephenfutch3327 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I am not a musician, but I LOVE to play music. When I was a teenager, I heard Jimi Hendrix and wanted to play that music. So I bought a white Strat, just like Hendrix, and taught myself how to play. When I was in my 40's, I happened to hear "Take Five" while waiting at a counter in a store. I JUST had to play that!! So I taught myself how to play drums, to be like Joe Morello. Then started applying my guitar stuff in the Jazz realm, learned some theory and began to see the beauty of the whole enterprise. But, then, I started to hear things in Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie that had previously made me a little ill (!!) and all of the sudden, I just had to play some Bird stuff on a horn. So picked up a cheap clarinet for 6 months, got my embouchure together then got a cheap Alto which I have been playing ow for about a year. The point? Loving a "thing" from the sidelines only goes so far. You have to DO that thing in order to truly love it. Because only then do you actually begin to understand it, be overwhelmed by it, want to quit, but keep pushing ahead because the beauty and appeal is now REAL to you. It can't be denied. This only scratches the surface. The depth of the love goes only as far as the depth of the thing which is loved. My children. My wife. Christ Jesus. Only in DOING the thing, experiencing the thing, does love become real. Thanks for this series, great work here.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      you sure sound like a musician to me! I see where Paul gets it from :) yeah doing things is the way to go if you really wanna “get it”. thanks so much for sharing!

    • @princess_zulica
      @princess_zulica 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      what if you love so many things from the sidelines that you dont know which thing to start with! I have so many "things" I would love to do, but I dont want to close my options and dedicate myself to one craft. I know i will probably like it, but I want to be sure of what I wanna go after and chase it with my all. Its a question ive been battling for a while, but a fun one and im enjoying the journey of discovery. But your statement "loving a thing from the sidelines only goes so far" really stuck out since thats what ive been doing for a while. I dont want to immerse myself in what im not sure of when I have so many other passions and ideas, but I know I cant research every possible venue out there. I would love an answer to this dilemna and possibly if you relate to it, id love hear the story, thanks :).

  • @PernilleKyed
    @PernilleKyed 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close last week, and it had a lot of beautiful themes and takeaways. The grandmas letters especially stuck with me, and reminded me to cherish the connections we have with other people, and how important they really are.
    Also, for the last year or so ive been trying to read more instead of being on my phone so much, and the good points of this series serve as great motivation. Keep up the good work!

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      extremely loud and incredibly close sounds exactly like the concert I was at! :) but sounds like a great book. Glad you enjoyed it & are enjoying the videos! good luck getting off your phone, I’m trying too :)

  • @portt2569
    @portt2569 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    One of the most impactful videos I've seen in a while. Hope you get as far as you deserve. Thanks mate, really!

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      hey thank you so much! I appreciate it!! thanks for the encouragement & for watching :)

  • @NaomiRein
    @NaomiRein 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    TH-cam has been recommending me all your videos, and I think they're great! I'm a teen reader that loves making art based of different scenes and quotes from my favourite books so I can add to the conversation from people who love them too. :) Most recently, I did a painting inspired by The Handmaid's Tale and displayed it at an art show.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      thanks so much for the encouragement! That’s so cool that you’re channeling it into more art. keep it going & thanks for watching!

  • @darklightmotion5534
    @darklightmotion5534 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The book "I called him necktie" made me appreciate the calmness in life just a little more.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      as someone who likes calmness I might have to grab that book. thanks for watching!

    • @darklightmotion5534
      @darklightmotion5534 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@timdemoss It is def a great read. Very heartfelt. It has a lot of chapters, as the chapters are sometimes as short as a page or less. Arguably not much happens, but it is so captivating and moving. I hope you check it out and enjoy it

  • @KatiaKatsnelson
    @KatiaKatsnelson 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    So grateful to have found your channel. Reading Norwegian Wood at the moment and the way you put this video together is absolutely moving. Thank you

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you so much for letting me know :) enjoy your reading!

  • @zorian
    @zorian 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These videos feel like A+ submissions for a summer take home essay about why you should read

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      as a high school teacher, this is high praise - thank you!

  • @kade00
    @kade00 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Beautiful storytelling & perspective - I haven’t read a book in years but will see you in the next video anyways

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      thank you! we’ll see ya then :)

  • @nathanhansford
    @nathanhansford 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Silent Spring pushed me to try and spend more time outside and truly value the thing I’m learning about (environmental engineering) and Braiding Sweetgrass told me that I am not a net negative to that environment, I can give.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      two books separately informing a single part of your life in different ways - that's terrific. :) thanks for watching!

  • @nicvane8751
    @nicvane8751 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow I’m loving this reasons to read series! Ive been getting back into reading after several years of not reading and it’s been great. Thanks for sharing your experiences!

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’m so glad! Happy reading!

  • @dL-ky2rp
    @dL-ky2rp 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Excellent recommend by the algorithm, loved the vid!
    I remember reading "At the existentialist cafe" by Sarah Bakewell in the midst of some of the worst that 2020 had to offer. And I don't know that it made me take a particular action so much as consider my mindset and all future actions. Reading and understanding how people endured and overcame the massive challenges of Europe in the 1930s-1940s and how some philosophers chose to embrace the absurdity of life and lean into breathing in every experience. Idk man, it just really pushed me to challenge how I was living through my own troubled times.
    Very excited to enjoy more of your musings ✨

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      thanks for the well thought out response! haven’t read that book but like how you mentioned it might not inspire a specific action in the moment, but is fuel for your future actions. glad to have you around!

  • @Balakay_Adkins
    @Balakay_Adkins 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Stoicism and Nietzsche have inspired me to take charge over all the problems in my life -internally and externally- and to view these things not as indicative of life being worse for their presence, but rather opportunities for me to make something beautiful out of it. A quote from Carl Jung which continuously inspires me to use free time to read, write and study is - “no matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”
    And I’ve found it to be incredibly true. Treating my alone time as an opportunity to keep engaging with the world by sharpening my mind and having conversations with people far smarter than me through the book has done a lot for me in day to day life

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      that Jung quote reminds me of how it feels when strangers find any of my videos and comment on it… welcome, unknown friend! :)

  • @Lvsl_iftdv
    @Lvsl_iftdv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I found the quote you cited in French, in the original text: "Le métier de témoin m’a toujours fait horreur. Que suis-je, si je ne participe pas ? J’ai besoin, pour être, de participer.". Literally, it means "The witness' occupation/role has always horrified me. What am I, if I don't participate? I need, in order to be, to participate." I love comparing translations so I thought you might be interested to know what the original quote sounds like in French! 😊

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      oh I do love that. What a terrific way to say it. Thank you so much!!

    • @Lvsl_iftdv
      @Lvsl_iftdv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@timdemoss Thank you for your videos! 🤗

  • @Devin888
    @Devin888 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I read Margaret Atwood's The Cat's Eye and had a strong emotional reaction. It made me think that maybe my childhood was a bit messed up and that I should try to unpack that.

  • @dontjayjayme
    @dontjayjayme 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your moshpit story is so funny to me, because I had a similar moment a few weeks ago, when I was at a concert on my own and first stood back from the most pit, as I'd usually do if I was with a friend. But then I thought fuck it, nobody's watching, nobody cares what I do and pretty much just jumped in. Was a little terrifying, but funnily much less stressful than being outside / at the edge of it. So yeah. Participating. Trying to be more present and intentional with all things is generally a goal of mine. And this video reminded me of that, so thank you!

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      such a similar experience! :) ha thanks for sharing! so glad the video reminded you of your goals :)

  • @rachellecalabrese4447
    @rachellecalabrese4447 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I read a book called Breadsong. It’s a nonfiction about a girl who ‘s breakmaking pulls her out of a depression, so she opens a bakery with her dad.
    I’ve since then started baking more and even made a bunch of mini loaves to give to friends.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      oh making bread is such a fun and therapeutic activity! I’m glad you’re enjoying it!

  • @kevreal
    @kevreal 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love you man, thanks for opening up a new door // perspective of my life at the perfect time of me reading more

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      so glad it could be helpful for you at this time in your life!

  • @Bee-kz1ei
    @Bee-kz1ei 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hello Tim! I've serendipitously stumbled across this video of yours today. Hello from another participant :) This was a lovely video to come across, as this is a question that I've been pondering in the back of my mind for a while now. As to your question, I think the author who always makes me want to engage with life is Ursula K. Le Guin, without question. I am a philosophy student and writer, so her approach to writing engages me in two ways at once. I'm currently rereading one of her works, and my favourite book of all time, The Dispossessed.
    There's a moment in which the narrator of the book, Shevek--a theoretical physicist in search of a general temporal theory--speaks to a crowd of angry workers. A particular passage strikes me each time. "We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give."

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So glad you stumbled across it! I feel like I need awhile to unpack that quote and would love to read it in context. Thanks for your thoughts and for participating!

  • @sabintenea4522
    @sabintenea4522 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love your content! Very quick touching stories that bring both value and soul. Would definetely enjoy long form from you!
    book: Piranesi from Susanna Clarke, gave me enough inspiration and wonder with the world to help me go through a tough design project.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      thank you!! I try to condense them a little bit but maybe I’ll venture into longer stuff sometime. If you’ve got ideas let me know & I’ll be happy to experiment. Love the word wonder - I’ll check out Piranesi!

  • @sundaramgupta2340
    @sundaramgupta2340 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    after completing shoe dog i was in awe. i got myself a pair of nikes and started doing marathons.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      well that is a pretty rock solid result! thanks for watching!

  • @sasha_nivar
    @sasha_nivar 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am deeply enjoying your videos and this series! the storytelling, visuals, and intentional choice to choose one idea to express all these elements are captivating from beginning to end. your videos are inspiring entertaining and educational in the philosophical self-reflective kind of way.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks so much! I’m glad it’s coming across well :)

  • @Ron_Shvartsman
    @Ron_Shvartsman 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so much for this video, Tim! I adore the idea of reading as participation, and I've added Flight to Arras to my reading list :)

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      glad to hear it Ron! welcome to the channel :)

  • @vinzaux
    @vinzaux 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    your channel is great. sharing my experience, reading infinite jest, specially because of the character of hal incandenza, made me start to smoke marihuana more frequently and to stop talking to people about my feelings. heh

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’ve only heard crazy things about this book, and this adds to the intrigue…hope you found some other books that encouraged you to open up more eventually! thanks for watching !

  • @katherinep1010
    @katherinep1010 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My kids and I read a picture book about a pet potato. So of course they needed their own pet potatoes. This just happened to be the day that Kate Messner (author of some awesome children's books) was visiting our library. So of course my 6yo had to bring her pet potato to meet her too.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      what a fun and wholesome adventure! :) I vaguely remember doing a potato experiment in elementary school where we let the “eyes” grow towards holes in a box… hadn’t thought of that in years but this reminded me. random I know. thanks for sharing!

  • @PurposeOfPete
    @PurposeOfPete 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Trouble with Poetry - Billy Collins inspired me to try writing a poem. After years and years of not "getting" poetry, I finally found some that I enjoyed in his collection of poems. And the trouble with poetry is that it makes you want to write more poetry 😂

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      that is the trouble with poetry isn’t it? I’ll make a video on this someday. thanks for watching!

  • @myaross1481
    @myaross1481 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and it made me desperately want to enjoy video games because of how the book presented it. It sounded like a blast so I tried playing some different video games alone and with my brother. I soon realized the video gaming world is not for me as I thought, but I’m happy the book inspired me to try!

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      worth a try! and that must be a good book to get you inspired to take action!

  • @thecosmicprime
    @thecosmicprime 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was spurred to do more one on one activities with my children after reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." Especially hiking.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      what a fun title for a book! glad to hear you’re having such great experiences with it :)

  • @fabe61
    @fabe61 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Book that spurred me to action was a nonfiction anthropological book called Land Of Open Graves by Jason de Leon. It’s about US border crossers and how the US border regime uses the hybrid collective of the Sonoran desert to kill and erase the bodies of crossers, creating a space of exception for them where their life is valued less and their death is of little consequence. It’s such a brutal book and it’s a rare example of how photos can really bring nonfiction humanities/social science writing to reality. He writes on academic issues but without any pretence or pomp, it’s so open and reflexive and glorious, but it’s really upsetting too. That book pushed me towards working on my masters thesis in new ways and led to me reconsidering my relationship to my work and to academia more broadly. Probably my favourite book I’ve ever read - you might like it :)

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      wow, sounds intense. thanks for the recommendation! :)

  • @keandrade04
    @keandrade04 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Midnight Library by Matt Haig made me realize that I can be more than the notion/goals I have tied myself into. I could be more of me.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      that's such an interesting phrase and encouragement. glad you enjoyed it!

  • @expoptart450
    @expoptart450 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    great video man

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      thank you! I appreciate the encouragement

  • @batwing9710
    @batwing9710 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The book that inspired me to participate was "Around The World In Eighty Days" by Jules Verne - it's just so moving that someone would go on a journey like that for something silly like a bet and then find something unexpected, much greater at the end!

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      what a terrific book!

  • @juliacelestexo
    @juliacelestexo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Read Just Kids by Patti Smith right before moving to New York City when I was 18. I walked around the city finding all the spots she mentions in her books and felt very romantic. :)

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      finding the specific spot mentioned is always fun! I remember standing at Canal & Bowery in New York and thinking “This is where the Lumineers were talking about”

  • @thispartofscott
    @thispartofscott 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    DallerGut Dream Department Store is about a store deep in everyone's subconscious field of mind, wherever people go to bed and are in dream mode. That book motivates to sleep on time and to sleep enough.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      any book that can motivate you to get decent sleep is doing terrific work!

  • @roastbeefy0weefy
    @roastbeefy0weefy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Narcissus and Goldmund, by Herman Hesse, pretty much informed the hedonism of my 15 - 25 year old self. It shows how there can be dignity and learning in sensualism. Then, when I was recovering from the consequences of that, a lot less confident, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k showed me how to throw myself into adult life without perfect preconditions. I know the last one isn't literature, but it's not a bad book tbh.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      interesting - hadn’t heard of that first one. & also I enjoy reading books that don’t fall in the “literature” category too :)

  • @benburke4122
    @benburke4122 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lightning McQueen and The Headlight Stickers? Great band name.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      we came up with it right before that first gig, I think as we were walking up to start XD thank you!

  • @m_flrk7620
    @m_flrk7620 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I read ‘’My mother’s castle’’ by Marcel Pagnol and it encouraged me to create more memories with mine since I’ve been a bit distant during puberty (I’m 18, so in the last part of it ☝🏻.

    • @m_flrk7620
      @m_flrk7620 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also love your videos. After finishing each one, I just hop on a book hahah

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      oh amazing! that’s the goal!!

  • @rottenteeth2623
    @rottenteeth2623 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    sick video, i was hooked immediately :)

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      wow thanks! getting better with practice so glad to hear you enjoyed!

  • @ferrefang
    @ferrefang 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the line "everything in life is writable" from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath spurred me to keep creating art and try bridge the gap between the mind and the material. i've learned to stop being a perfectionist and find joy in the mere attempt. i love getting book recs from you and my to-read list has grown so much after I subscribed! do you happen to have a goodreads account?

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      the gap between the mind and the mental - love how you phrased that. It’s a challenge for sure. And I do have a Goodreads but I use it just as a tracker - I don’t rate or review or share anything there :)

  • @Andrew123-ko8cx
    @Andrew123-ko8cx 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "The Five Rings" a book about the teachings of a Japanese sword master inspired me to try shaving with a razor blade

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      hope it went well! :)

  • @McBaus
    @McBaus 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm trying to employ the lessons from Peace in Every Step by Hanh to live my daily life more mindfully and compassion.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      those sound like great goals :) thanks for watching!

  • @max_2792
    @max_2792 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I read Alkibiades by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, a suberb Dutch author. It made me appreciate the power of rhetoric and understand the frailty of democracy.

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      sounds powerful. Thanks for watching!

  • @pouetpouetdaddy5
    @pouetpouetdaddy5 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I clicked, no real expectation...why I'm getting so emotional listen this 6:42 videos? Actually, Epictetus teach me how to stop participating into what is not my concerns. And its a lot, mentally.

  • @zetazetazeta0
    @zetazetazeta0 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Instructions unclear, i am now on a no return mission to mars after reading the Long mars

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Godspeed, soldier. safe travels.

  • @طائر-و6ظ
    @طائر-و6ظ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ‏i love this ❤

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      :)

  • @fashionboystabeats
    @fashionboystabeats 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    reading Harry Potter so I went to uk and had a. blast

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      that’s sure taking action!

  • @jurassicthunder
    @jurassicthunder 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you only die once so why not live it.

  • @danwroy
    @danwroy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You should have mentioned earlier that you're a Mountain Goats guy so people know

    • @pfutch1
      @pfutch1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The mountain goats are appreciated by all who enjoy good writing :)

    • @danwroy
      @danwroy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@pfutch1 The confounding variable: divorce

    • @danwroy
      @danwroy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also, just having fun here

  • @sarabitchboss2404
    @sarabitchboss2404 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    all i want to say is thank you, kind stranger 🤍 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson got me to pursue my passion for writing through journalism, and I am now enrolled in university as a journalism major haha

    • @timdemoss
      @timdemoss  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      hey good luck in university! keep reading & writing!