With all the media (read: books, music, internet, movies, tv) that I find my consuming on a daily basis I have decided to start keeping record of how my mind is interacting with all of these inputs. So now you the reader will be subjected to my run-on sentences and mindless mumblings in completely rough form.
Essentially I am now going to attempt to create a sorts of Input/Output documentation through this blog and let the public eye examine, destruct, construct, and consume my thoughts.
I just finished watching Adventureland... It's a movie starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, and Bill Hader. A movie set in '87 and introduces us to James (Eisenberg) a virgin who wants to travel across Europe with his buds before his first year of college studying journalism at Columbia University (Ivy League). However he finds out his dad got demoted and now his parents can't afford to help him cover the cost of the trip OR his university costs. James gets a job at the local amusement park Adventureland and meets Em (Stewart) a girl who has a penchant for the married maintenance guy (Reynolds) who's claim to fine and opening line is "I jammed with Lou Reed once" to every girl he meets.
Essentially a love story these two go through the wonders of teenage angst, love, boredom and cheating hearts I found myself oddly attracted to the relationships on screen. James' and Em's relationship on screen at first glance was pretty mellow with the occasional small conversation, love for music, and makeout sessions. It was a pretty muted relationship I have to admit, but hey, Stewart plays her character perfect (a stoic girl who's dealing with the loss of a mother, a clueless dad, a weird stepmom, and in a relationship with a guy that is no good). Eisenberg on the other hand is a little uncomfortable in his role with Stewart (as every guy in high school is with relationships) and has much better chemistry with the other guys on screen.
That's all I wanted to say about Adventureland... Watch the movie it's on Netflix
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There's this other documentary I came across on Netflix entitle Examined Life. It aired on TVO a few years ago and is basically a collection of 8 segments of 10 minute clips with modern philosophers talking about various modern issues and such. I watched it a few weeks ago and there's a clip with Slavoj Žižek. He discusses what will we do with the things we want to ignore (he talks about the subject matter in a dump). His basic argument starts with not confronting the nature of our world we live in moves to his theory of ecology being the moralistic and religious opium of the masses (like reilgion was to Marx) and ends with the general premise of love, if/when we marry/love another human being we do not attempt to change them and their shortcoming but rather embrace them as the failed human that they are so should we embrace nature and the development of the world.
Yeah, cool stuff.
Finally I've been listening to Sufjan Stevens the past two days and his new Christams stuff is out including his "Christmas Unicorn" Song.
And to finish off the day I've also been on Reddit looking at stupid pictures of cats, that dude that parachuted with RedBull sponsoring him, and various Romney criticisms. I'd link to the stuff but anyone reading this probably has already seen it....
If anyone that reads this could point any obvious errors in my writing skills it'd be great.
- Korbyn the Smart(er) Media Consumer
Essentially I am now going to attempt to create a sorts of Input/Output documentation through this blog and let the public eye examine, destruct, construct, and consume my thoughts.
I just finished watching Adventureland... It's a movie starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, and Bill Hader. A movie set in '87 and introduces us to James (Eisenberg) a virgin who wants to travel across Europe with his buds before his first year of college studying journalism at Columbia University (Ivy League). However he finds out his dad got demoted and now his parents can't afford to help him cover the cost of the trip OR his university costs. James gets a job at the local amusement park Adventureland and meets Em (Stewart) a girl who has a penchant for the married maintenance guy (Reynolds) who's claim to fine and opening line is "I jammed with Lou Reed once" to every girl he meets.
Essentially a love story these two go through the wonders of teenage angst, love, boredom and cheating hearts I found myself oddly attracted to the relationships on screen. James' and Em's relationship on screen at first glance was pretty mellow with the occasional small conversation, love for music, and makeout sessions. It was a pretty muted relationship I have to admit, but hey, Stewart plays her character perfect (a stoic girl who's dealing with the loss of a mother, a clueless dad, a weird stepmom, and in a relationship with a guy that is no good). Eisenberg on the other hand is a little uncomfortable in his role with Stewart (as every guy in high school is with relationships) and has much better chemistry with the other guys on screen.
That's all I wanted to say about Adventureland... Watch the movie it's on Netflix
.
There's this other documentary I came across on Netflix entitle Examined Life. It aired on TVO a few years ago and is basically a collection of 8 segments of 10 minute clips with modern philosophers talking about various modern issues and such. I watched it a few weeks ago and there's a clip with Slavoj Žižek. He discusses what will we do with the things we want to ignore (he talks about the subject matter in a dump). His basic argument starts with not confronting the nature of our world we live in moves to his theory of ecology being the moralistic and religious opium of the masses (like reilgion was to Marx) and ends with the general premise of love, if/when we marry/love another human being we do not attempt to change them and their shortcoming but rather embrace them as the failed human that they are so should we embrace nature and the development of the world.
Yeah, cool stuff.
Finally I've been listening to Sufjan Stevens the past two days and his new Christams stuff is out including his "Christmas Unicorn" Song.
And to finish off the day I've also been on Reddit looking at stupid pictures of cats, that dude that parachuted with RedBull sponsoring him, and various Romney criticisms. I'd link to the stuff but anyone reading this probably has already seen it....
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| This is the first animal picture (3rd from the top) on the front page... Yay Upvoting.... |
If anyone that reads this could point any obvious errors in my writing skills it'd be great.
- Korbyn the Smart(er) Media Consumer
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