I just crossed 100K in the latest work in progress. I feel like I'm finally embarking on the last act (another 30K). Gonna need a meataxe for draft #2.
I remember one summer "Closing Time" was on ALL THE FUCKING TIME, but then if you could grit your teeth and bare that song, you'd hear stuff from the 60s through the 90s - rap, some disco, alternate, rock, old punk, new punk, numetal, old metal, shoegaze, emo, collisions of the above.
If you look in the mirror and say Biggie's name 5 times, Princess Diana comes to life behind you.
I loved getting called into meetings and being shown something that had been promised to the customer that had nothing to do with what I was working on and was told to "go do that." But without more hours or resources
Somehow all those "Western Civ" canon courses skip over Marx, Fanon, Luce Irigaray, Bambara, existentialists, pretty much every queer writer or theorist... Almost like they don't actually want to discuss the West much really
If one of these (or one of the larger container ships) managed to sink vertically in the strait the stern would (in most parts) form a hefty size office building island
I've, uh, heard from friends that everyone does this.
Let's fucking go! Congratulations to the meatpackers!
Private equity speak for "we will gut this institution and sell it off for parts"
You can't cut your way to prosperity...
Han and Doo hanging out at the bar in Mos Eisley and getting into trouble
Reverend Jim hanging out with The King of New York⁰
And here we are right back to Schenck vs United States
Redford's a great example - yes he is famous for a lot of roles, but he was also a director and producer on many lesser known (but quite good) films!
I remember the Clock of the Long Now guys talking about long term storage mediums some time ago (Stewart Brand's idea was to build a clock that keeps track of really long time periods, as an exercise in long term planning)
Works well until the storage warehouse gets jacked by some exceptional thieves and it's up to Roy Rogers to save the day
That's fair.
Even w/in my gen (X), there's a huge gap between those born just 5-6 years ahead of me, and those born from my year on. They're more conservative & don't get it. By the time 9/11 happened I'd lived thru AIDS, urban abandonment, Reaganomics, 5 recessions. Thinking the gipper was going to start WW3.
It's awesome we can still read this. It makes me sad that there are documents irretrievably lost due to paper or early digital decay from just a couple of decades ago.
People created the empire, he ruled over them. Rulers don't create anything. They take the gold and the credit.
This is also why Last of the Mohicans > Predator > The Rundown
Same - during its airtime I was moving about once every six months, working odd hours and odd jobs, and sometimes I didn't have a TV.
Why do we want to give all that up, just in the interest of saving some of the (very real) frustration? I can't see how it's worth the tradeoff. Even if you don't enjoy writing, and are only doing it to get tenure/keep your job/etc., you're handing over autonomy to a plagiarism machine.
A lot of research and writing consists of serendipitous discovery. You're looking for one thing, find another, go down what looks like a blind path, and grab something really juicy. Even if the paper at hand isn't the right place for it, you save it for the next one. Or share it. Or just enjoy it.
Short answer: it doesn't matter. Research follows the same 80/20 rule as most human exploratory activities (and prob much activity in general) 20% of the activity will generate 80% of the fruitful results. But you won't know which 20% of that big block of research it will be ahead of time.
Yeah the more I've read up about him the greater the ick factor. Especially The Professional. It sucks because his films as films somehow combine pulp and smarts in a way that's pretty hard to do.
Well, we stiill have Jeunet, Caro, del Toro, and Anisia Uzeyman.
Luc Besson is a fun "smart/dumb" filmmaker.
"So Luc, is La Femme Nikita about how dehumanizing the surveillance complex is, or how hot Anne Parillaud is?"
"Yes."
"Is 5th Element a heartfelt anti-war film, or an excuse to have Milla and Bruce kick all the ass"
"Yes"
It's amazing that one of the hardest songs that decade has a lead mandolin backed by a string section.
For someone to be redeemed they have to put in the effort. Chauvin had a history of brutality that went back ~12 years before he murdered Floyd. He could have, at any point, changed his path. He didn't. He could have pled guilty and accepted what he did was wrong. He didn't. I wouldn't shed a tear
