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
Saturday, May 23, 2020
Illuminati Handbook
Those in power craft culture and government and policies in order to make them susceptible to control by the will of others and against developing their own will. Like training a pack of dogs. This is evident in the world around us. There's no way kings weren't impressed with their dog trainers and take some tips from them. And there's no way these things aren't written down somewhere where the rich and powerful can access it but it's somewhat less accessible to the masses who might take the dog comparison to be unfavorable.
These texts were hand-written back in the old days, but the ruling class of the 21st century is somewhat less interested in reading these days than in satisfying their every desire. And so training videos were filmed instead.
What you're about to listen to is audio from those video tapes. Our men were able to smuggle a set of VHS tapes out. They were intended to be destroyed when the newer DVDs were sent out. So some of their plans may have changed since the mid 1980s, but I think what we found will be enough to chew on for some time. Let's begin with Volume 1 tape 1: Overview and Initiation.
(Do cool audio and music and VHS tape warble. Give it an early 80s Epcot Center vibe. Evil Epcot is the aesthetic.)
Religion. This is a really touchy subject. God/Satan, The Spirit Realm. The may or may not exist. We're sure you have your own opinion and proof one way or the other that we may present you with would persuade you one way or the other. What we can tell you is that ritual works. The mechanics of that you can fill in with whatever theory you prefer. Divine power, magic, psychology, some mumbo jumbo made out of misunderstanding quantum theory. Pick one. But know that ritual works. Rituals can empower the individual, or can open one up to be controlled by others. Your average Sunday Church contains rituals designed to encourage people to give up their will to others. God ostensibly. But we leave the crack open for any person in a position of power and authority to also take the reigns. Rituals designed to strengthen the individual will, on the otherhand are discouraged for the masses and made available to you much later in these video series.
In old times practiioners were murdered for being witches or heretics. these days, much like many of our current policies, it is merely necessary to maintain a majority with week wills and who follow our suggestions unquestioningly. Humans are a social species and if you get 50% of a population to follow unquestioningly, they will define acceptible behavior patterns that another 40 percent will follow out of convenience even if they question. a 10% minority living outside of our control is acceptable and unthreatening to our plans. And these populations are easily jailed. Just make key traits of theirs illegal and lock away any poor people who do those things.
That won't stop you of course. We have each others backs, we don't prosecute each other, and we can afford not only the best lawyers, we can also afford the best judges and juries if you catch our meaning.
These texts were hand-written back in the old days, but the ruling class of the 21st century is somewhat less interested in reading these days than in satisfying their every desire. And so training videos were filmed instead.
What you're about to listen to is audio from those video tapes. Our men were able to smuggle a set of VHS tapes out. They were intended to be destroyed when the newer DVDs were sent out. So some of their plans may have changed since the mid 1980s, but I think what we found will be enough to chew on for some time. Let's begin with Volume 1 tape 1: Overview and Initiation.
(Do cool audio and music and VHS tape warble. Give it an early 80s Epcot Center vibe. Evil Epcot is the aesthetic.)
Religion. This is a really touchy subject. God/Satan, The Spirit Realm. The may or may not exist. We're sure you have your own opinion and proof one way or the other that we may present you with would persuade you one way or the other. What we can tell you is that ritual works. The mechanics of that you can fill in with whatever theory you prefer. Divine power, magic, psychology, some mumbo jumbo made out of misunderstanding quantum theory. Pick one. But know that ritual works. Rituals can empower the individual, or can open one up to be controlled by others. Your average Sunday Church contains rituals designed to encourage people to give up their will to others. God ostensibly. But we leave the crack open for any person in a position of power and authority to also take the reigns. Rituals designed to strengthen the individual will, on the otherhand are discouraged for the masses and made available to you much later in these video series.
In old times practiioners were murdered for being witches or heretics. these days, much like many of our current policies, it is merely necessary to maintain a majority with week wills and who follow our suggestions unquestioningly. Humans are a social species and if you get 50% of a population to follow unquestioningly, they will define acceptible behavior patterns that another 40 percent will follow out of convenience even if they question. a 10% minority living outside of our control is acceptable and unthreatening to our plans. And these populations are easily jailed. Just make key traits of theirs illegal and lock away any poor people who do those things.
That won't stop you of course. We have each others backs, we don't prosecute each other, and we can afford not only the best lawyers, we can also afford the best judges and juries if you catch our meaning.
Friday, May 22, 2020
Other Podcast Ideas (undeveloped)
Rejected Shorts: Other podcasts: An experimental Selected Shorts. Actors reading experimental fiction in front of an audience that likes that sort of thing. brainstorm.
Symphonic Devices: Remix a song into an extended symphony accompanying a fan's associated memories of the song, and looping and expanding elements from the stems.
Please Hold: A Phone Tree audio drama. A new path and a new piece of info to unlock new segments of the real phone tree (password, extension, etc) with each new episode.
But Wait There's More: Two audio dramas in one. A sitcom about a infomercial inventor and a CIA agent working together, and a behind the scenes and episode review podcast about the crazy story about the cult who made the podcast. brainstorm,
tools:
how to write a pilot.
Symphonic Devices: Remix a song into an extended symphony accompanying a fan's associated memories of the song, and looping and expanding elements from the stems.
Please Hold: A Phone Tree audio drama. A new path and a new piece of info to unlock new segments of the real phone tree (password, extension, etc) with each new episode.
But Wait There's More: Two audio dramas in one. A sitcom about a infomercial inventor and a CIA agent working together, and a behind the scenes and episode review podcast about the crazy story about the cult who made the podcast. brainstorm,
tools:
how to write a pilot.
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