CLOUDFILL is the label head of Hexmania.
Is there moral goodness, what is goodness to you?
To be honest I think complete and total moral goodness is an impossibility. Nobody is perfect, after all. Every person is a patchwork of both “good” and “bad” qualities (quotation marks because those terms are subjective in themselves). We’re all just fumbling through life, so naturally we’re going to make some mistakes along the way.
With that said though I do think everyone should try to learn from those mistakes and strive to be the best version of themselves they can be. I guess that’s my definition of “goodness”.
How do you manage ennui?
I often find myself feeling quite stagnant and dissatisfied with my life, but I think running my label Hex Mania has helped with that a lot. Scouting for new music has given me a renewed sense of purpose, plus it’s a good distraction from any invasive bad thoughts.
Aside from that, I find that dancing around my room to Sicko Mobb helps tremendously.
In your opinion does this photograph of a pumpkin:
A. Reflect a profound reality (A picture of pumpkin is like the real thing)
B. Mask and denature a profound reality (A picture of the pumpkin is like a shitty version of the real thing.)
C. Mask the absence of a profound reality (the pumpkin was a lie.)
D. Lose all connection to reality, becoming pure simulation (Pumpkins, as a natural phenomenon, are a lie and this picture I just handed you is just a napkin that I peed on.)
E. All of the Above
F. The pumpkin is a ｓｉｃｋ ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ
Source: UNDERSTANDING JEAN BAUDRILLARD WITH PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES
Are you afraid that everything will happen?
In a way, everything already has, and now we’re just re-living it all. Think about it; when was the last time you saw or heard something completely and utterly new? Most of our recent cultural trends have been based around revivalism. Retro is the new futuristic. Looking back is the new looking forward… (I don’t really know where I’m going with this but it’s something I think about quite a lot.)
Do you think trends are accelerating more quickly now than ever? Do you think the acceleration will ever stop –can it contain itself, or will the whole system collapse?
With advancements in technology and the rise of the internet, I think trends do pick up speed a lot quicker than they used to. However, it also means the trends die off just as fast.
Trends have a kind of cyclical way of maintaining their own equilibrium. Something gets popular, everyone jumps on the popular thing, popular thing becomes over-saturated until eventually everyone decides they’ve had enough, thing’s popularity decreases which makes way for a new thing, and the cycle repeats.
