Sunday, January 30, 2022

Desert power

Working on a new post. I wonder what others are in the thunderdome. I have so much to prove. A list of things to write about:

- Dune, specifically Desert power

- Christine, and Stephen King archetypes

- early season exhibition blowouts

- Goodbye, Columbus, and Roth

- gluttony, Polar seltzer, empathy and compassion

- Ken Burns' The Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln, and 19th century America

 Are my dreams coming true? Should I be drinking even more water? Some more things to write about:

- I should go see the new Imax. It is the thing to do. I could pick out an Indian picture instead. Let's play this out. The Villeneuve picture will be something, maybe an endless sermon.

- The hot 80s girl and the River Phoenix kid. The nerd who's "good" What does it mean to be Stephen King? The car that's a person. The clown terrorizing children. The stand against the antichrist. Am I missing anything?  I haven't read much. The shape-shifters afraid of cats. Kids tear through a King novel all night long.

- I forgot a very important topic: Aaron Rodgers

- I need to find my King. Lets list some candidates:

- George R.R. Martin, Philip Roth

- should I allow outside research? DeLillo and Aira, too. No, they should be excluded. I read that Joyce book. I may one day read Ulysses. Is there a way to write that sentence so it reads in harmony with its  inflection aloud? I'll keep inspiration to eyeshot. What a horrifying--harrifying--place it is to write in. Do I seem proud? My thoughts scatter, can I allow a jump ahead to those burning topics. How do I finish this one? Oh, right, James Crumley. 

- Its like August in college football. Unbelievable optimism. We can feel perfection. We see the sets as they are supposed to be ran. If we don't, look out. What is this awful direction, going to push to another place. The new players! Who was today? Just Newby. How to talk without mentioning another thing that only gives it away?

- Ali Macgraw, our wonderful star. Was everyone reading Roth? Maybe they were. I wonder if I'll ever get sick. The protagonist is a bad person. The protagonist is an unlikable person. A good person thats also likeable? Oprah, Cosby. Mr Neighborhood. I forget his name. Surely a good casting of Brenda. I found Sarris's review. All his reviews are in the classical period. I am perverting the page. This is not a diary. It's not self-indulgence to dare to refer to the text. Moving on, I guess its a romance book?

- Be conscious of goals on a trip to the supermarket. They're not called that anymore. It's Wal-mart or Coborn's. There were more people in there today. In every aisle. 

- I feel a cold Polar can. They raved on the coasts, now we know too. La croix is old and sad, but still cool in the right hand.

- This feels like a trap. Time to get up early. Maybe I need more of this.

- Listing notable aspects of or things in the series. It's constructed mainly from written materials. A letter from a soldier to his wife or mother. Other things written, too. Hmm, it's getting late. 

Will this post transform into a singularity. Paring a bit. Is this just corruption or can I recreate the glory?

- Watching Jordan Love succeed in any moment at all has such thrill. I can't shed the Packers, why do I keep trying. Rodgers' face is ugly right? Look at his brother.

- A Song of Ice and Fire. A narrative zoomed-in way too far. What is my memory of this series? Its just Arya walking into a harbor, Jaime discussing goings-on in a castle. 

- The structure is lost. Stray topics now. So Roth is popular because he writes about women from the perspective of men. Is it that simple? And the men are nasty; wonderful. Is there anything cooler than reading? Honest question. Playing a sport recreationally maybe. Depends on the sport though. I guess if one is reading YA that doesn't place as well. To clarify, I mean reading fiction. Non-fiction and theory is less meaningful in this context, unless the theory is smuggling style.

- the Holocaust

- I read pages of the Aira compilation again. What does that mean? It's always a man, an observer, in an ordinary context. He's brainstorming.

- Is someone is choosing to do that. Let's say they are. Well, they have to show the replay, and some teams do not push the ball. So they don't care, or they are stupid?

- Is this self-indulgent? No, it's just ordinary.

I've exhausted many topics. The quality of a book is measured by its readers. Someone writes some words, maybe sentences, but is it interesting. How would they know? Are they well-read? But what about varied taste? They want to become a better person--it is their duty! 

- the cagey writer 

- Is it always a choice to watch a movie? Often it is a choice with weighed options. I watched the animated Harriet Tubman movie in school. What about the choice made in leisure time. Maybe exclude those acquiescing to a spouse. I frequently make the wrong choice, even repeatedly, for an extended period. Like watching Affliction or Alien 3. Now I don't know if each of those individually were mistakes, but when they happen over and over, something is not right.

- the circumstances surround a good choice

- So back to Shoah. Any movie that works seems to probe at the same question. Why is it pleasant? If I describe my taste I present an image so bare and ordinary it seems to like a description best kept to private life. I am reading more, and would like to continue to read more. Will I wield the language to express these sorts of things.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

searching

"Everyone stumbles into my awe.  Not one is trying."

Imagine being at a place that is profound.  You're here.  Now imagine being unable to convince another that this place is profound.

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a fallow undisturbed is aware of its value
positive negative or zero
a fallow undisturbed is aware of its "value"
capacity to bear fruit

a fallow undisturbed is aware
knowledge of potential disturbances
a fallow undisturbed is "aware"
potentially disturbed

a fallow undisturbed

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

June: in review

I recently resurrected my old blog, savage desire.  My post was about the movies I had watched in June (until that point).  I have watched 17 movies and will likely watch a couple more before the month ends.  

I came here to write that The Intern, of these 17, is the best movie I saw.  I don't know if that's true, but the sheer impossibility of it crossing my mind is profound in itself.  

I suppose I should lay out the contenders for MONTH'S BEST:

Hot Pursuit - (not a contender) I watched this engulfed in self-hatred for being able to endure.
Her - (not a contender)
Chef - (not a contender)
Amélie - It shows its audience a beautiful human being.  
Synecdoche, New York - I cannot speak well of this movie's brilliance.  I can only say that it masters a certain tonal aesthetic.  Though, being my fourth viewing, the sparkle was not nearly as present.
Enemy - My favorite of Denis Villeneuve's.  I didn't enjoy a movie more this month.

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

on the page

when reading novels I mainly consider two things when deciding whether I should continue:
the quality of writing (loosely coincides with an objective judgement, it is an intuitive, aesthetic evaluation)
the substance

some books i've been reading recently:
a storm of swords - george rr martin
full access to substance because the quality of writing maintains consistency, and does not overextend into literary dimension
lonesome dove - larry mcmurtry
in many respects, very similar to point on martin.  I adore certain aspects of this setting, but want concentration; perhaps a smaller scope...
standard western tropes are uninteresting to me
the elementary particles - michel houellebecq
i am grateful I found this author, though I'm unsure I'll continue reading him.  His prose, translated, has proper directness and seems more profound than martin and mcmurtry.  His societal standing as "pop-literary" is unsurprising.  His use of explicit scientific explanation is very effective; however, his consistent descriptions of the sexual exploits of certain characters becomes depressingly mundane
not that kind of girl - lena dunham
I stopped reading this after 30 pages.  Not at all difficult to read; unsurprising content considering her tv show.  substance-wise entirely unrewarding
the power of the dog - don winslow
I stopped after several pages.  reading < Art thinks,"..." > is like getting poked in the eye
the moviegoer - walker percy
I put this on my toilet; the first few pages are absolute excellence

go tell it on the mountain - james baldwin
the best book here, by several lengths.  wonderful prose combined with a genuine, human exploration

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.