Really enjoyed this piece, felt like I was reading thoughts I think to myself on a daily basis. I’m tired of how the internet is too sometimes, always with a solution, telling you what to do. but fear I’m a fraud because I make content, from an objective eye, not too different from the stuff I despise.
...thanks for reading and digging brother...was a fun introspection even with all my whiny annoyance...the internet is a symphony of self and self importance (and there is no escape from that mirror, not here at least)...i couldn't escape the din last week and was oddly saved by watching this movie, a movie i have seen a dozen times, and a metaphor i had just lived for a week trudging back and forth between skid row and beverly hills, the literal financial highs and lows of LA...i think it speaks to the power of good content above all else...a good story or idea can be watched and rewatched, lived and relived, read and reread and every time you gain something even if it is just something you had before...have faith in your quality as a guide and i guarantee you never become "them"...
Many great points here. But I really do love the idea of having faith in your quality as a guide. Been trying to live more and more by obsessing over quality. And to your point on the power of a good story, I’m reminded of the book I’m reading right now: A million miles in a thousand years. We’re all living a story… but are you telling yourself and living out the most engaging and full story you can be? Could your life be better if you changed your story? Buying into the idea of a story — whether that story is you being an amazing father or marathon runner or adventurous traveller — can change your life.
...we have to believe in ourselves and our value if we ever want to build that boat...i love the idea of third person perspiration/inspiration...what if i read me...my great fitzcarraldo is to figure out where commerce and art can cross paths...how can i become father to an adventurous globetrotting marathon runner...and is that even my story...
I'm not sure if I have even seen it. Which probably means that I haven't. I used to see everything. And then cable became $140 a month, all the whiny crybaby millennials cut the cord and Netflix bested Blockbuster's scratched and unwatchable DVD at home program, which birthed the Alien Queen's diarrhea streaming war we're all still negotiating to this day. And now certain movies are only available on certain platforms. And I ain't gonna pay for all them. Movies became like video game consoles. Atari vs Sega vs Nintendo vs PC vs your mom. And at some point, I got jaded.
What the hell am I talking about?
Your writing. Dug it. Dig Dug it. On an Atari 5200.
My only gripe was that that first subscribe button made me think the article was over. So I almost hit the back arrow. But I continued reading. I'm glad I did.
...now that is good (god) feedback...i'd love to watch a feature length river raid on my 2600 but usually die on level 3...this is so funny (and true) that streaming was created to "fight" cable and now streaming is cable, and it is even worse than cable...i definitely am starting to reconsider the whole subscribe in the article thing (this is a substack feature for "growth" -- meanwhile aren't us folks on substack here to read/write?)...if my mom was a video game console, yeech...though she might like being a tv, or being on one more than picking up the preschool babies...glad you dig dug it man...i had a thought about the alien queen the other day while watching the trailer for the new alien movie...why doesn't one of these new Alien movies one up that prosthetic...the reveal in Aliens is so rad when you realize there is a master mega-alien...what if there was a mountain sized one bigger than that?...someone needs to do an alien that borders on lovecraftian (or they can just keep making movies about promethetic albino bodybuilders)...stay rocking...
I was going to say that the only problem I see with you writing movie reviews is that for those of us who haven't seen the films the writing might not be relevant. I was wrong. I haven't seen 'to live and die in LA', and while I feel like I'm definitely missing context, I don't see any problem with that...
Really enjoyed this piece, felt like I was reading thoughts I think to myself on a daily basis. I’m tired of how the internet is too sometimes, always with a solution, telling you what to do. but fear I’m a fraud because I make content, from an objective eye, not too different from the stuff I despise.
...thanks for reading and digging brother...was a fun introspection even with all my whiny annoyance...the internet is a symphony of self and self importance (and there is no escape from that mirror, not here at least)...i couldn't escape the din last week and was oddly saved by watching this movie, a movie i have seen a dozen times, and a metaphor i had just lived for a week trudging back and forth between skid row and beverly hills, the literal financial highs and lows of LA...i think it speaks to the power of good content above all else...a good story or idea can be watched and rewatched, lived and relived, read and reread and every time you gain something even if it is just something you had before...have faith in your quality as a guide and i guarantee you never become "them"...
Many great points here. But I really do love the idea of having faith in your quality as a guide. Been trying to live more and more by obsessing over quality. And to your point on the power of a good story, I’m reminded of the book I’m reading right now: A million miles in a thousand years. We’re all living a story… but are you telling yourself and living out the most engaging and full story you can be? Could your life be better if you changed your story? Buying into the idea of a story — whether that story is you being an amazing father or marathon runner or adventurous traveller — can change your life.
...we have to believe in ourselves and our value if we ever want to build that boat...i love the idea of third person perspiration/inspiration...what if i read me...my great fitzcarraldo is to figure out where commerce and art can cross paths...how can i become father to an adventurous globetrotting marathon runner...and is that even my story...
Brilliant. I love how you play with words! I hope one day schools full of children will be studying your use of language
...not the children!...jk...thank you that is a really nice thing to say...i just hope that one day children will still be studying anything hahaha...
Mall Rats
...the gospel...
Yes!!!
+1
But also, I'm still waiting for your thoughts on Crossroads.
...next in the series just for you (and garden state which i still haven't seen but have tivo'd)...
You are always a big and welcome reset button in my week. You help dismantle whatever self-importance I've pieced together in the last 7 days.
...i'll try to build us all back up next week...maybe write something about becoming a lego...
I like the blue and yellow ones.
Really good.
...appreciate it brother...this has to be one of the greatest movies of all time...i'll take any recs too if you got some...
I'm not sure if I have even seen it. Which probably means that I haven't. I used to see everything. And then cable became $140 a month, all the whiny crybaby millennials cut the cord and Netflix bested Blockbuster's scratched and unwatchable DVD at home program, which birthed the Alien Queen's diarrhea streaming war we're all still negotiating to this day. And now certain movies are only available on certain platforms. And I ain't gonna pay for all them. Movies became like video game consoles. Atari vs Sega vs Nintendo vs PC vs your mom. And at some point, I got jaded.
What the hell am I talking about?
Your writing. Dug it. Dig Dug it. On an Atari 5200.
My only gripe was that that first subscribe button made me think the article was over. So I almost hit the back arrow. But I continued reading. I'm glad I did.
...now that is good (god) feedback...i'd love to watch a feature length river raid on my 2600 but usually die on level 3...this is so funny (and true) that streaming was created to "fight" cable and now streaming is cable, and it is even worse than cable...i definitely am starting to reconsider the whole subscribe in the article thing (this is a substack feature for "growth" -- meanwhile aren't us folks on substack here to read/write?)...if my mom was a video game console, yeech...though she might like being a tv, or being on one more than picking up the preschool babies...glad you dig dug it man...i had a thought about the alien queen the other day while watching the trailer for the new alien movie...why doesn't one of these new Alien movies one up that prosthetic...the reveal in Aliens is so rad when you realize there is a master mega-alien...what if there was a mountain sized one bigger than that?...someone needs to do an alien that borders on lovecraftian (or they can just keep making movies about promethetic albino bodybuilders)...stay rocking...
Lol
I was going to say that the only problem I see with you writing movie reviews is that for those of us who haven't seen the films the writing might not be relevant. I was wrong. I haven't seen 'to live and die in LA', and while I feel like I'm definitely missing context, I don't see any problem with that...
...i promise to keep this room a spoiler free zone while still managing to smell like rotten fruit...