The New World

sus

sus

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Yeah I'd have a heart attack too. "Oh, by the way..."

I've had some books printed (just self-printed, really) but there was something really special about the material good in your hands. PDFs just don't seem to cut it. I wonder how much that's like zombie prestige of the past creeping in... but also it's just amazing to see a physical object that exists because of the work you put in, and that looks a bit like a piece of your soul, or whatever.

When's the release date? October?
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Not having to work is my dream life. I hate working. I've tried various jobs and I hated them all, even my latest which is by far the best.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
The object that's emerging now isn't a job that's interesting and engaging (since this doesn't exist), but a job that's ridiculously easy. I had that job before and hated it. But on balance it caused me less worry.
 
sus

sus

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I think you've got to move out of the country Corpse

if it's really your dream, then it's worth it

Spend a year learning to code

Even if you're not great, you're good enough

Then go down south to somewhere warm with a good conversion rate to pounds... Thailand maybe, or Costa Rica. Work a couple hours a week building websites... you only need to clear say $500? $600 a month? That's single day's work, maybe two
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
suspendedreason said:
Yeah I'd have a heart attack too. "Oh, by the way..."

I've had some books printed (just self-printed, really) but there was something really special about the material good in your hands. PDFs just don't seem to cut it. I wonder how much that's like zombie prestige of the past creeping in... but also it's just amazing to see a physical object that exists because of the work you put in, and that looks a bit like a piece of your soul, or whatever.

When's the release date? October?
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Ninth I think. Approximately.
What was the book thing?
 
linebaugh

linebaugh

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Watched a Malick film yesterday, Days of Heaven. the whole thing felt like the first 15 minutes of a mob movie- perpetually surveying the scene, snappy, isolated bits of exposition, the world worn narrator. Was an interesting choice, made the plot and primary characters feel like inconsequential fibers on the back of a larger beast, tertiary consumers with their smallest siphon of the energy pool. I liked it. I can also see how Malick could very easily be the worst thing in the world though.
 
constant escape

constant escape

winter withered, warm
I think part of the reason, if not the reason, I'm a Malick apologist, is that I first watched Knight of Cups while on acid. Even in retrospect, that film is perfect for such an occasion.

But yeah I think with most existentialist films like that, you gotta just indulge them. All of the scenes of people meandering through an empty town, or a movie set, etc.
 
sus

sus

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Linebaugh said:
Watched a Malick film yesterday, Days of Heaven. the whole thing felt like the first 15 minutes of a mob movie- perpetually surveying the scene, snappy, isolated bits of exposition, the world worn narrator. Was an interesting choice, made the plot and primary characters feel like inconsequential fibers on the back of a larger beast, tertiary consumers with their smallest siphon of the energy pool. I liked it.
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Deleted that last, quivering, equivocating sentence for you. Nobody gets to sit this one out. No Christmas truces, no white flags.

It is sorta like the opening to Mean Streets or something. Literally every shot in DoH would be the best shot in most other films. Riding the train across the bridge? Taking the wagons under the enormous entrance arch to the farm? When the locusts come? When the flying circus arrives? When flames engulf the fields?
 
sus

sus

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@mvuent watched New World, he told me it was the best film he'd ever seen, a transformative cinematic experience, and he was really disappointed in the level of discourse here.
 
sus

sus

Well-known member
@mvuent Now I know that's very high praise, best ever, but you're not one to just say something for the sake of saying it, if you say it you really mean it. What made it such a transformative viewing experience? How has it changed the temperament and color of your soul?
 
WashYourHands

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
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This makes me sad. Midwestern fields have the kind of beauty that just saturates you, fills you up so contented.
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no-one here eats corn dogs or creamed corn, which is why we tend not to exhibit jaundiced complexions of corn-fed humans

maybe approach Theresa May about running through fields of wheat making crop circles etc
 
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