Harkat wrote:nwj are you fuckin trolling? Do you not watch movies at all? What about books? TV shows? Music?
Why listen to music ffs
Like 95% not trolling. In reverse order, music, I love listening to music; sound, beat structure, melody, and novelty give me pleasure. Really, I'm just a head nodder, I like to be, and can be, in a beat.
Tv shows, yeah, turned off the tv a few years ago. I don't know when, a while ago.
Books... I do a lot of reading online now. In the past I've really enjoyed reading books, but I've kind of had a narrow focus, as far as novels, really pretty narrow, but novels don't do much for me now, either too shallow to really care about, just a page turner, I've got better stuff to do, or too deep, and I'm kind of missing the full import, kind of shameful. Rarely do I find an author whose language is just pleasurable. The phenomenon is a lot like sound when listening to music. I really enjoyed good science fiction back when it was fiction, now the envelope has become so compressed, we're so close to the singularity, or within the singularity, it doesn't work anymore. But generally, I prefer nonfiction now, and I enjoy factual information that expands my consciousness, or gives me new theoretical frameworks for understanding reality. Movies... not really much anymore.
Back in the day, yeah, I liked films, heavy on the Fellini, Hitchcock, Lynch axis.
I've had a pretty large 'theoretical framework' shift which is pretty much all encompassing, so accurately describes the world, and is attacked so consistently throughout all popular culture. There was a time when going back and viewing all the popular culture I consumed as a child, as a young adult, and as an adult and understanding the messaging in light of this 'theoretical framework' was interesting (and horrifying), but I don't know, that is passed.
I don't really enjoy movies anymore, really, I haven't seen a serious film in some time. Unlike Agent, I liked older films with awkward pacing, slower pacing, more visual pacing. For a film to work, a kind of magic is necessary, a fire like phenomenon has to take hold, you have to fall into the movie. That doesn't really happen to me anymore. When I'm really tired, immobilized, I like putting my head on my wife's breast and watching some stupid movie for a little while.
But in today's context, a film like Battleship Potemkin is pretty unwatchable
