Sunmonkey

Kotaro Chiba

As if Beardsley had embraced Ukiyo-e.

anything that makes us noodle over cool things should be celebrated

Eh. Given the author's choice of words in the opening and closing paragraphs, it seems he •strongly• desires a physicalist approach. But - and to his credit he closes with this - this theory only focuses on "downstream" effects outside of the quantum realm. Doesn't pass the sniff test for me.

Eisenhower warned us in '61: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

The rabbits have hearts that terror tore inside out
The terror has arms that wave back and forth
Turning things we love inside out

8•31•2015

I open Meditations to a random page and it mentions eagles.

Ten seconds later the PJ Harvey that’s playing mentions eagles.

I parlay this craziness. I grab the book next to me. Open to a random page. The third word I read is “eagles”.

All of this in the space of thirty seconds.

Brilliant album that I was just thinking about yesterday. It’s a sign. Of what, I dunno.

They exist outside of time. Airports are funky that way. Like casinos, but with less noise.

Anything short of a single, berobed storyteller sitting on a low wooden bench at the front of the theater is a bunch of fakery.

He's brilliant. This is very very cool!

Cinnamon? In this economy!? I need a cheap cinnamon proxy.

my God, it's full of Weeder

Arguable 😌

I dub thee Boozy Young

been thinking of this quote all day long

they are, but it’s still magic when they do it

I’ve tried to get through it twice but it’s terrible. This was empirically a bad film: poorly written, edited, shot, and directed. If someone liked it, cool. But there’s a huge difference between liking a film and it being a good film. Two totally different tests.

100% The sound, costume, and set design is. Wendy Carlos's score. Each shot – once on the Grid – is beautifully composed. It is pure art in motion. I wish they had kept that same level of beauty and wonder in the sequels.

I have that same set! It’s fantastic.

I thought I was the only one left on Earth that watches the original Tron

Wootz! Congratulations!

I was obsessed with that song when it came out

everyday
nothing fades

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

8.2?! As perfect as a movie can get.

Oof. Really? That’s your addition to the discussion? You know zero about me and you go for insults? Quality human.

I respect Memento but don’t care for it. I’m not a huge fan of Nolan so it goes with the territory. 🤷‍♂️

Absolutely! We all like what we like. I don’t like Memento for that reason but at least it makes sense in the context of the main character. In Weapons it feels like padding (to me!).

Respectfully disagree. The story jumps back in time and replays scenes from other characters’ view points at least 6 times. It’s one of the clunkiest and most obvious - and blazingly unnecessary - plot devices there is.