Saturday, May 14, 2016

A Shift

The next period of my life has great potential to be the most influential in determining my end outcome.

Potential choices seem unlimited, but outcomes seem determined.  I want to opt for the extremes, but without concentrated deliberation--a consistent methodology of reference--each choice is anguished.

Ongoing:  Lemonade is an amazing experience; thank you Bey!

Full engagement is at max availability during a state of environmental constancy--when there is a single unavoidable occupying force that dominates the present.  I am a college student, so the basic example of this is an assignment that is perceived to be important; failure of completion will have an impactful consequence.

This is how I live meaningfully.  I place myself in moments of situational consequence, then bastardize their contextual importances, experiencing enjoyment.


The challenge is to impose a subjective notion of importance into my life, removing reliance of "on paper" evaluations of my actions--making my actions independent in at least one, specific sense.

Ongoing:  continued confirmation of Bey's instantial brilliance

Here is where I place my concluding remarks, an attempt to provide conclusive evidence of this written exercise's positive value.  There are people everywhere, searching for affirmation of their pursuits or potential pursuits or both.  Give it to them; encourage, embolden, and enact.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

the constitution of a great movie

my recent struggle has been articulating the difference between an enjoyable movie and a great one.  i don't have trouble identifying a great film, since it is highly correlated with my emotional response to it; the problem comes when i try to translate feeling into language.

in terms of the movies i watched in the past month, there are three great movies.  

Early Summer
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The 25th Hour

Thursday, May 5, 2016

A Profile of a Deficient Thinker

the main object of my pursuit is a paper.  this is not any paper; according to my professor, this is one where i will do philosophy--at least that is a requirement if i want to be successful.  on a whim i semi-committed to a topic, paul feyerabend, the architect of epistemological anarchism.  i doubt i've ever come up with an original idea in the philosophical or scientific disciplines.  the evaluative strength i have lies in the realm of aesthetics.

so i will flounder about in the academic realm, trying to create a thing, unlike ever before

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

My principle conflict in writing is the same as everyone else: how to explain my experience to others?

This film, for a variety of reasons, was both much anticipated and completely forgotten.  It has been a unmoving figure in my Netflix queue for great periods, another of the many that are almost adequate enough to begin.  

My aesthetic taste has been greatly affected by my recent trip to Asia; this is an exemplary example of this shift, though I am sure I would've loved this regardless of context.

This film combines concepts in a wonderful way.  It is a story of great humans.