I like watching contrailschocolatebarkJuly 1 2011, 22:12:04 UTC
Personal velocity, like any other kind, leads to things falling away. It burns sometimes, but it looks pretty when you're standing on the ground, watching it up in the sky (or elsewheres). I think a lot of this social networking/cataloging on the internet makes the whole collection/casting off dynamic that much easier and addictive for people to buy into. I thought I had a way to connect this comment to your post more explicitly when I started, but maybe I don't.
i think you're on to something in suggesting it's not th things themselves that are addictive, but th ...... exercise ... of watching th stream, making th stream ...... Now criticisms of th Internet are all basically taking th same shape, much like criticisms of th suburbs or consumer culture in general ...... We hear th same phrases over and over: "decreased attention spans" ... "shallowness" ... "anonymity" + "hostility" ... "narcissism" ... That all of these complaints are taking place on th Internet is barely worth a mention, since this is where ALL discussions take place. What I haven't read is a good plan for restoring some of th things that people @ least say they miss about th pre-FB Internet -- community-building, intimacy, THREADED COMMENTUDE etc.
chopping and screwing over cutting and pastinglostcosmonautJuly 5 2011, 14:23:25 UTC
yez. As w/ th government, we get th Internet that we deserve ...... I can't help thinking that th technology's scalable, customizable, filterable nature can promote health instead of neuroticism -- that th way most people are using it in 2011 lacks vision, that we don't have to have another great leap forward in technology as much as we have to reject an impoverished experience, be more creative and less reactive, slow th fuck down, read a book, bring some thoughtfulness to th game instead of reflexively cutting and pasting
there's something really positive about this post that kinda makes me happy. maybe it's just that we're both getting healthier (dude i WORK OUT now, believe it or not) and that maybe we both kinda sorta didn't like the tree of life, or at least your paragraph about it was better than the whole damn bloated movie imo... which saddens me to say. excited to watch that brando thing. i finally saw grey gardens a few weeks ago, which was not what i was expecting in a good way.
ten good things ten good things ten good thingslostcosmonautJuly 2 2011, 21:06:46 UTC
and I am happy that you are happy Mr Schank. Post before and after pictures, I'm sure I'm not th only one who'd like to see th buff you. It's funny, I actually like Tree of Life quite a bit, though I didn't see it as th apex of cinematic expression that some other fans see it as, and it pleases me that my disrespectful paragraph about it gives th opposite impression because life's complex like that. I enjoyed how free it was, editing-wise, I liked how it's probable that Malick shot a few tons of footage to get th small moments he got (facial expressions, boys dragging their dog from th front seat into th back seat w/ them, baby reflexively hitting another baby, actually almost everything involving those babies ...), and I actually liked all of th National Geographic-style stuff, too. I feel what you say about bloat, but I guess if it's an excess of stuff I can get into, I no longer see it as excess. As mebbe one of th last generations of children who were allowed to run wild all day in nature unsupervised, and as one of three
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I also have that Felix th Cat thing (in button form.) I also didn't know that about mubi's filmography thing, I must start writing review blurbs there!
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Preaching to th choir here, ah'm sure
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Now you're surrounded by th dead broken bodies of Shaq, Herzog, th lizard from Drinking out of Cups, and my computer, but they were all o.a.f., anyhow
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