freewrite 5.23.20
Have a bunch of pilot episodes ready to go. Develop a show and record it and have a show bible written and have them ready to sell to networks. Hire writers I trust (jeff and alexander)
I don't think it was the finale people were pissed at with LOST. It's that the writers were being intentionally misleading for the entire final season and that was the episode they revealed that they'd been yanking our chains for 19 episodes. That doesn't feel good. It's tough to pay off duplicitousness like that in storytelling.
Lost was a bootcamp for showrunning and one of the best things to come out of it was lindelof's subsequent shows The Leftovers and Watchmen. The Leftovers especially, uses many of the same themes as Lost, but uses them in more mature, less pulpy ways.
Lost rocks as long as you don't take it too seriously. It's a weird, pulpy as hell genre show. The problem with mass audiences was that the genre-ness crept up on them. Starting off as a drama. A scripted Survivor, and the weird elements got more and more prominent until it was full on Steven King territory.
Edit Lost Chronologically.
Everything that evokes meaning is good. movies, drugs, novels, love, sex, dreams. Anything that evokes meaning and/or beauty is divine.
trust yourself so you can begin to trust others
Freewrite 5/29
classes in film direction, project management, and leadership and business would be useful as an artist. You have to be able to manage large organizational tasks and resources and personnel to create ambitious works of art.
I'll look at film forum now.
Turns out being constantly connected to an instant global validation/outrage machine isn't the way to make good art.
I like the idea of calling rough drafts "vomit drafts" get it out and then restructure and reshape and then you can call it a rough draft. A rough draft is something someone else you're close to can read and a vomit draft is for my eyes only.
Humor is important for experimental media. Even if it's a really offbeat humor sparsely used. You need a reason to enjoy and return to an experimental work or you won't put in the work to warm up to it. Based on the strength of Upstream Color, I'd say Shane Carruth could be this generation's David Lynch except that his movies are relentlessly humorless. Rich Kelly's Donnie Darko was successful because the humor worked, his subsequent movies Southland Tales, the humor did not work at all and The Box was devoid of humor.
This is similar to how comedy is important to expanding consciousness and calling out injustices. You need to get over the discomfort of new ideas and humor is the only way i know of to diffuse that without pain and recovery or exposure therapy.
Humor is important to growth. Enlightenment would be a riot. There's a reason the buddha is always depicted laughing.
Exposure therapy or comedy, those are the two mechanisms of personal growth.
When confronted with something truly new there are only two natural reactions: revulsion or laughter. A little bit of humor can at least give you a mixture of both.
escapist humor is not good. Confronting humor often is. Escapist humor reinforces the status quo and is often punching down or is insult comedy. Think a lot of sitcom humor. finding humor in taboos, drawing lines of acceptible behavior instead of breaking them down. wall-building humor. vs boundary dissolving humor.
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what part does boredom play in a lot of our social ills of the moment? Stress and boredom simultaneously are a bad combo and makes people pick other people apart and pick fights.
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Sunday, May 24, 2020
Sunday, November 24, 2019
ROUTINE IS ANESTHETIC
ROUTINE IS AN ANESTHETIC. DO SOMETHING YOU HATE FOR 7 DAYS STRAIGHT AND YOU MAY GROW USED TO IT. YOUR MIND DOESN'T BOTHER LOGGING MEMORIES OF THINGS YOU'VE DONE EXACTLY THE SAME OVER AND OVER AGAIN. SOMETIMES YOU PARK YOUR CAR AT WORK AND YOU THINK. HOW DID I GET HERE? I DON'T REMEMBER DRIVING THIS FAR. SOMETIMES YOU WAKE UP AFTER 15 YEARS AT THE SAME COMPANY AND YOU THINK, "WHY AM I SO WRINKLED? WHAT'S UP WITH ALL THESE GRAY HAIRS? WHY DID I SKIP TO THIS MOMENT IN TIME AND NOT AN EARLIER ONE?
EVEN THINGS YOU LOVE IF REPEATED ENOUGH TIMES NO LONGER FORM REAL MEMORIES AFTER A CERTAIN REPITITION. THIS IS WHY UNPREDICTABLILITY IS THE KEY TO LIVING LONGER, FROM A SUBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW AT LEAST THIS IS CORRECT. A WALK DOWN AN UNFAMILIAR STREET SUBJECTIVELY TAKES TENS OF TIMES LONGER THAN A STREET YOU'VE BEEN DOWN SEVERAL TIMES.
EVEN ATROCITIES BECOME ROUTINE AND THUS VANISH IF THEY HAPPEN WITH ENOUGH FREQUENCY.
MOVE YOUR FURNITURE REGULARLY. EVERY FRIDAY. (IF YOU PARTAKE IN PSYCHEDELICS, MAYBE REARRANGE THE MENTAL FURNITURE EVERY FRIDAY AT THE SAME TIME) SO YOU'LL STILL SEE THE THINGS THAT BRING YOU JOY.
AND THE THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT BUT YOU MUST DO, DO THEM EXACTLY THE SAME EVERY SINGLE DAY SO YOU STOP REGISTERING DOING THEM.
WEDNESDAY: CLEAN ENTIRE HOUSE
THURSDAY: REARRANGE ENTIRE HOUSE
FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY: UTILIZE THE BENEFITS OF THE REARRANGED SPACE.
(sidenote conspiratorial thought not to be published: I suspect at least some of the random shootings that happen in America are undercover hits. Nobody questions these killings because they happen constantly here. What if the gestapo didn't dress in uniform and their killings appeared randomized instead of knocking down your front door and telling you what thought crime you've committed? On a certain level this is happening in America with the police shootings of people of color. They are randomly killing people who the establishment would rather not participate in society. It just happens through institutionalized racism instead of being planned by a secret cabal. This serves several purposes. Makes it appear random. is a way of assassinating specific people without exposing themselves as a gestapo, and also it makes the average citizen fear and mistrust their fellow citizens and seek the government to protect them from one another, solidifying power of the government, winning the allegiance of the people over their own class/race solidarity, and it discourages collective action or uprisal among the oppressed classes. It's controversial to say that mass shootings are planned and I'm not saying any or all of them are faked. But this would be the motive if something like this happened. Much moreso than the often repeated right wing theory that "the government is coming for my guns." because they have not come for anybody's guns even after all these years and with so much support for that idea. They obviously want you to have your guns or they would have already been taken away long ago.)
EVEN THINGS YOU LOVE IF REPEATED ENOUGH TIMES NO LONGER FORM REAL MEMORIES AFTER A CERTAIN REPITITION. THIS IS WHY UNPREDICTABLILITY IS THE KEY TO LIVING LONGER, FROM A SUBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW AT LEAST THIS IS CORRECT. A WALK DOWN AN UNFAMILIAR STREET SUBJECTIVELY TAKES TENS OF TIMES LONGER THAN A STREET YOU'VE BEEN DOWN SEVERAL TIMES.
EVEN ATROCITIES BECOME ROUTINE AND THUS VANISH IF THEY HAPPEN WITH ENOUGH FREQUENCY.
MOVE YOUR FURNITURE REGULARLY. EVERY FRIDAY. (IF YOU PARTAKE IN PSYCHEDELICS, MAYBE REARRANGE THE MENTAL FURNITURE EVERY FRIDAY AT THE SAME TIME) SO YOU'LL STILL SEE THE THINGS THAT BRING YOU JOY.
AND THE THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT BUT YOU MUST DO, DO THEM EXACTLY THE SAME EVERY SINGLE DAY SO YOU STOP REGISTERING DOING THEM.
WEDNESDAY: CLEAN ENTIRE HOUSE
THURSDAY: REARRANGE ENTIRE HOUSE
FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY: UTILIZE THE BENEFITS OF THE REARRANGED SPACE.
(sidenote conspiratorial thought not to be published: I suspect at least some of the random shootings that happen in America are undercover hits. Nobody questions these killings because they happen constantly here. What if the gestapo didn't dress in uniform and their killings appeared randomized instead of knocking down your front door and telling you what thought crime you've committed? On a certain level this is happening in America with the police shootings of people of color. They are randomly killing people who the establishment would rather not participate in society. It just happens through institutionalized racism instead of being planned by a secret cabal. This serves several purposes. Makes it appear random. is a way of assassinating specific people without exposing themselves as a gestapo, and also it makes the average citizen fear and mistrust their fellow citizens and seek the government to protect them from one another, solidifying power of the government, winning the allegiance of the people over their own class/race solidarity, and it discourages collective action or uprisal among the oppressed classes. It's controversial to say that mass shootings are planned and I'm not saying any or all of them are faked. But this would be the motive if something like this happened. Much moreso than the often repeated right wing theory that "the government is coming for my guns." because they have not come for anybody's guns even after all these years and with so much support for that idea. They obviously want you to have your guns or they would have already been taken away long ago.)
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