The library
Quote corner
Things people actually said, quoted word for word inside the guide. Follow any one of them back to the plate it appears in.
taste, un—borrowed.
“i hate that all my sources of research are coming from people making reels on the internet. i need opinions and thoughts of my own.”
Not a reference library.
Tastemaxxing is not about building a library of references. It is the muscle of responding to something and being able to say exactly why.
Interrogate what you already love.
The songs you replay. The outfit that feels like armour. Not why do you like it — that question is lazy. But: what does this do that the thing next to it does not?
Go narrow, not wide.
Not art but Italian radical design of 1966; not music but Ethio-jazz of the 1969–74 golden age. Two to three weeks per corner. Primary sources only. Write a paragraph. Defend it. Revise it.
Don't browse this like a feed. Pick one volume and disappear into it. Come back when you can tell me, in specific sentences, what the thing does — and what it does that the thing next to it doesn't.
Come say hi → hello@un-borrowedtaste.com