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Movies for fun. Some of my favorite movies are ones that could never be 'high concept' or whatever it means when you are trying to make something of greatness or idk intellectual...? Mister Lonely, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, all fan remakes and original Batman movies (see The Black Bat), Five-O and every thing on Tubi's "Black Independent Cinema" collection, all of Wang Po's movies, anything that isn't quite as genre as B-Movie, but someone's commitment to making the movie they knew was good. I think people call this category "post-irony" where the creator takes something which is not serious very seriously, but only because they love it. Many foreign film industries have a home for these silly ones built into their orthodox canon, Bolly/Nollywood or Taiwanese film, where it's okay to make a movie about Baby Police in a way that is Legit but also Because Movies Are Fun. But in the US no one watches comedy movies because people act like they are in comedies, rather than take the sillyness seriously. Landing jokes versus playing. Campyness rather than drama and bombastic glory. It feels so good to take pleasure in the fearlessness of many "silly" movies daring to tell stories that are neither subtle nor smarter than a good time.
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Watched a few with my family during the holidays and I salute every single filmmaker for creating films that are laughably bad but also Some of the most original work I’ve ever seen.
Feb 19, 2024
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Just saw Lisa Frankenstein and the movie was so funny bc it didn’t take itself seriously and honestly… same
Feb 10, 2024
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They don’t make them like they used to…. #watch #pineapple #express and #giggle
Feb 5, 2024
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I love hearing people talk about their lives and what they are figuring out. I live in the South now, and I already talk way too much in spirals even for the East Coast, so I have to drop a real anchor or else I may miss some important things that people slowly give away as they talk here.
In moving to a new place or having fewer friends I get really overwhelmed without noticing it when my head and all my thoughts are the only strings of questioning that go past pleasantries and small talk. This is the main danger I believe of going somewhere where you only really know yourself well, and most others are the upmost form of stranger. I never really need to unload my thoughts as much as I'd just like to hear about the inside life of someone else, thats company. Going to NA/AA meetings is one of the best ways to spend time listening to others, I also go to a Buddhist meditation group and Church where I can listen and sit next to people, and the best part is you can never be part of the pass/fail system of a relationship with these groups! A very literal "meeting," you show up, listen, and get to know someone for a moment, but you never have to answer anyone! You just be with people, and after you fold up the chairs and go on! I think that listening with nothing before or after is awesome.
Mar 7, 2025
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I can't have a beer because I am an addict, but I like thinking about one in the way that Kūkai (Japanese Buddhist guy) uses like, mandalas. I think?
I'm not an alcoholic, but NA says I'm better off not drinking, and in general I find that how much I love drinking one beer makes me more sad when the second tastes gross or I am sleepy, because drinking beer is amazing and so wonderful. I love how beer tastes and feels, but it is also about the freedom of the occasion. Having the idea of a beer. Saying yes, I am going to have that beer. Smiling. Picking out a beer. Buying a beer. Cracking open a cold one. That is how you greet the best of days.
Kukai did this whole ten step (I kinda remember it being 13....) about visualization of "states of the mind" or jūjūshin, "ju" meaning like "abode" or "dwelling," I'm not gonna translate shin because its like pre-Buddhism Japanese and its saying like "true" and "God-like" in reality so just let me lie to you and say it means "mind" which it doesn't but it can't really mean anything to you or me. god. anyway. It's this very drawn out practice of creating these mind palaces and mansions that are so intricate and real that you can experience them as almost more real than the world around you, samsara to them. Then you put a deity in the center eventually until you can feel that as real, then you swap out the deity for yourself. I could be lying this is all from the dome. But this is what created those awesome mandalas, which are more like mind palace floorplans. All of this is to say that I am beginning the accidental process of visualizing a mind-beer, which has let me continue to enjoy beer by thinking about it and all of its joys, while not drinking it. I really recommend this, even if you do drink beer.
Mar 7, 2025