The best parts of the best movies are the stretches of seeming nothingness or tedium that are actually doing the revolutionary work of allowing you to think. Drugs can help but also you don't need drugs because the movie is the drug.
Corollary to this: loud concerts perform the same service. Stare at the stage until you don't see it anymore, focus on the music until you don't hear it anymore, and disappear into yourself until you are all alone in the crowd. Works better the closer you are to the stage. Eliminate mediation and drink directly from the firehose
plot stresses me out. i want to watch someone go through a chunk of their day without manufactured drama or an explosion.
good movies for this: showing up, pacifiction, samsara, stop making sense,
It’s just good for my brain. I can’t explain it. No need to follow any plot, just enjoying the decadent, camp imagery like moving artwork in a frame while I clean and write music
You can see action movies at home and you're fine. But to truly appreciate a movie with any nuance or subtlety, you must see it in a darkened, under-attended theater so you can hold your thoughts and keep your phone in your pocket and surrender yourself to the vision
