#BODEN’S not so silly journal anymore
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I might slide on ur block with intelligence
Ye just made crypto
Invest now bitches
It just dropped 15 mins ago
Its worth 1 dollar rn
Ive got a half day at school today
Ion even know where half my classes are 😭
Ill figure it out
imagine
It in school too dont forget
Mf the school is renovating so the names and numbers are outdated 😭
There's also the strategy of walking inti every single one of your classes until you find the right one 👍
True
<@&1017490570668691606> i have a question
I may be able to answer but if not the mods will still answer
Alr alr
Can i dm you
Bc its an image
100%
?
May i dm u?
Ok
Ko made an image of me in an anime style

I cant get over how cool it looks

Im such a happy lil guy
The crown of thorns is a request
I didnt have an actual crown of thorns
Just missing the diamonds for the Kenny cosplay lmfao
Ikrrrr
I actually debated asking for that
wooahh, that's so cool!! did they draw it?
Yes on an online thingy
You would have to ask them
Malice is a better rapper than pusha
Lyrically
“The way you spelled it out there is an L in every lesson”
-malice, The Birds Dont Sing
100%
Granted I do think people over hate on push
True
Just because Malice is better doesn't mean push is bad
I just think malice flows wayyyy better too
Oh ofc
Push is goated
Malice is on a generational run this year
Best beat of the year in me and my brothers opinion
Mhm
Im rly fuckin pissed
I got on the Ye news in a server
Ive reached peak
This was the original pic that i took in the car when I realized
Yes
Im so sleepy
Please explain why the FUCK i have gay furry femboy on my fyp (no hate im just not part of dat)
My goat of TikTok/j
Fuck the world
My gums are slightly burned from the caffeine pouches
(Like zyns but no nic)
You use them the same way
Currently carrying highschool
God i need a fucking cigarette
If i had one rn i would
Should have taken some from work
Stay strong 💪🏻
I got free cheese curds from work yesterday
Ngl i just cooked
Im the shower i free-styled to the last three minutes of runaway by kanye
Back to being alone
Probably better for most ppl
:/
One day im gonna do something baf
And its gonna be a shame to have known me
Damn ko that was fast
Hru? 👍👎?
Or meh
Good?
Thats good to hear
Very good ko
Im happy for you
Man this song is good
Future is just goated
Man i love my gf sm
Muah
Muah
Muah
Muaaaah
Muah
Muaaah
Muh
Muah
Mmmmmuuuuuaaaaaahhhhh
Muah
Muah
Muah
Muah
Muah
Muah
If i was with her i would just kiss her face
And her neck
And
Her mouth
And
Uhhhhmmm
Uhhhh
😳😳
tehhe
Hehe
Ha
Hahaha
:3
I love you emiiiii
Muah
I love youuu toooo 
I miss my beautiful perfect girlfriend

Im gonna make another song abt her cus why tf not

@jolly flume Look what i just found
Actually nah this goes for all y’all mfs out there
Also goes for guys
Buh buh
Buh
Buh
Buh buh
Literally me rn
Nah thats not me
This is me
Maybe emi’s feeling was right
She said she had a terrible feeling or something
She said she had a feeling something was wrong
Im probably fine
Runaway from me
Got school tomorrow
Gn
Game i wanted to buy finally got added to game pass
So thats pretty cool
Cheered me up a little bit
Why do i have to be so fuckin bad at expressing my feelings
Surgery tomorrow
I might be less active due to recovery
Just letting everyone know
Thats nothing bad has happened
Im just recovering
Then again
I might not be offline more
Who knows
Thank you

You can do this 
About 14 hours
In about 5 hours i have to stop eating and drinking anything except for water

I vaguely remember having my diet restricted years ago when I got my wisdom teeth removed. Not pleasant
Well you got plenty of people who support you and I also know you have it in you to get through this
Yo who wanna play helldivers 2 w me
Ah good good hopefully recovery is easy
Hardly got any sleep
I got like 10 hours, but it’s never enough
Graaaah my shoulder is hurtin
Co worker gave me some “special” gummies for after the surgery

They actually might help with pain
Got a new game today!!!
Nba 2k 26
Its pretty fun!!!
I might get mgs 3 remaster too!
Ive been waiting for that for a few months now
I miss my gfffffffff

I hope she is sleeping having sweet dreams
Damn my shoulder under the wrapping itches

Damn bro i look so buns
26th
Context (why this film exists)
Kanye built a 35-minute short film to frame the album’s comeback arc after the 2009 VMA fallout. He literally said the phoenix parallels his career: burn → return better. That’s the key you use to decode everything else.
He directed it himself, with Hype Williams on script, Vanessa Beecroft shaping the art direction, and model Selita Ebanks as the Phoenix. The film pulls from Purple Rain, The Wall, Thriller, plus fine-art references (Picasso, Matisse) and Kubrick-style framing.
Narrative in one line
Griffin (Ye) finds a fallen Phoenix, tries to fit her into “our” world, society rejects her, and she chooses self-immolation over assimilation. That’s the emotional engine the “Runaway” performance sits inside.
The major symbols
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The Phoenix (Selita Ebanks)
She’s rebirth and radical difference. The film even states the thesis out loud: “Anything that is different you try to change.” She refuses that fate and returns to fire. Read as: the artist/muse won’t be domesticated by industry norms or public narrative. It’s also Ye’s self-portrait after the “career burn.” -
Griffin’s name
A griffin is a hybrid creature. Naming the protagonist “Griffin” mirrors the Phoenix’s hybridity and Ye’s blend of high culture/low culture, rap/fine-art, sinner/supplicant. (This one’s interpretive, but the hybrid echo is too neat to ignore.) -
The crash + comet
Opening with Mozart’s “Lacrimosa,” a car crash, and a literal fallen star collapses Ye’s real-life wreck → rebirth into myth. Contemporary coverage even tied that crash imagery to the Through the Wire origin story.
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The parade & the giant Michael Jackson head
Griffin “introduces” the Phoenix to his world via spectacle: a papier-mâché MJ bust, marching band, fireworks. It’s a walk through pop canon and hero worship — showing her the heights and hollowness of cultural idolatry he’s both chasing and critiquing. -
The dinner party (assimilation test)
Everyone’s in white — conformity/civility — while Griffin and the Phoenix visually read as outsiders. The menu winks at sacrament (pink “wine,” bread, loaves/fishes), making the space church-coded. Then they serve turkey, and the Phoenix screams: the feast literally asks the “bird” to accept the consumption of her own kind. That’s the cost of fitting in. -
“Runaway” with the ballerinas
High art (ballet) meets a hook that toasts “douchebags” and “assholes.” That clash is the point: the refined frame around messy, self-aware confession. Critics called out that exact juxtaposition — classical poise vs. toxic behavior — as the sequence’s punch. -
Color logic
White = social polish/conformity (guests). Black tutus = friction and shadow around Griffin’s confession. The film’s palette (bold, simple blocks) is used like Beecroft uses bodies: to stage a living tableau where the idea reads instantly.
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“Statues” conversation
By the fire, she says statues are phoenixes turned to stone — creativity frozen into icon/commodity. That’s the film’s anxiety: become a monument and lose your life force; stay blazing and you can’t be owned. -
The ending (sex → separation → sprint)
They make love to “Lost in the World,” he wakes alone, and sprints after her as she ascends. Desire can’t override difference; the artist/muse chooses transformation over domesticity. It leaves Griffin (and Ye) forever chasing the thing he can’t quite hold.
How it reframes the song
“Runaway” as a performance is half-apology, half-self-indictment. Staging it inside that dinner — with literal toasts as the diners raise glasses — turns the hook into ceremony: a ritualized confession in front of the very class that’s judging him. The ballerinas turn his “ugly” into choreographed beauty, which is the Ye move in a sentence.
I might have to block some ppl later…
Found out some shit i wish i didnt
Heart is heavy and i wanna throw up after finding it out
Fuck
I kinda wanna throw up
Dude im having an actual blast with logan
We have been just yapping about fucking NOTHING for almost an hour straight
Im actually smiling
Maybe this night isnt so bad after all
Im actually honored to be able to call him my friend
There was nothing like yapping with friends hours into the night. I sure miss those days..
ITS THE DELUXE EDITION TOO SO IT CAME WITH ALL THE COVER ARTWORK THAT I CAN CHANGE ON THE VINYL COVER
Idk i might try focusing on myself
Especially with recovery
Because im gonna be back in the gym
After im out of this sling
Idk
After im out of this sling I’ll definitely be less active
Maybe ill just turn into an emotionless bastard
Don’t recommend
Seriously took one look and almost said wow Boden is pregnant. But it's ur shoulder sling 😭
Im a pregnant boy
Emi needa pay child support
I already payed last month 
Its every month goofy
Man ill just have school tomorrow
The vinyl listening experience for “devil in a new dress” is unreal
Future is a top 5 rapper of all time
Tbh
I put him over drake
And kendrick
Kendrick doesnt even make my top 5
Neither does drake
1-Kanye West
2-Jay-Z
3-nas
4-future
5-freddie gibbs
I feel that a lot of ppl would actually agree with this too
From a universal standing
I feel this is correct
Or close to being correct
To be honest tho
I could put drake at 5
If you refuse to see drake’s greatest you dont deserve to be in any serious music convo ever again
EVERYONE READING THIS: I WILL NOW MAINLY UPDATE EVERYTHING IN MY VENTING JOURNAL
Ive made my decision
sigh
i was gonna try to disappear
But i just couldnt
And when i come back im scolded
Man
Fuck all y’all
sorry.
It wasnt you dw
—HOE—
HEAVEN
ON
EARTH
MIXTAPE PRODUCED BY YOURS TRULY
—1.20.25—
been a while
didnt expect to see you either bro
not to well but we pushing
Honestly I expected to be dead by now but things are taking longer than I wanted, and procrastination is always here to get in the way of things