fall 2010
i'm starting this up again, as part of a self-imposed schedule for writing productivity. monday's i've relegated to random blogging, music writing, shit, truly milking the most randomest shit i can outta my brain. other days i have specific projects: tuesday, the veggie cookbook; wed, a fictional narrative on nordism and oslo love; thurs, a part research-oriented and stylized treatise against christian rock; friday's- wisps of memory writing on growing up in midwest americas.
but today is monday. last night i watched "the other guys" with petter. i was hungover, on pot and vodka. we laughed throughout the movie, but in this incredulous, ridiculous, absurd way that you start tiring of, or that you start to resent. because the movie isn't really funny. it's just extremely bad. and that supposed bad "on purpose"- i read somewhere a review on rotten tomatoes that its a farce concocted to rich actors against multinational film corporation. uh huh huh. i think what irritates me the most about films coming out these days, particularly this one, is they have to constantly drop modern amenities in this ordinary way in the script, to show how easily they've become appropriated into daily life: facebook, ipods, myspace, prius electric cars, skyping, etc. Nothing is more sickening then a movie selfconsciously trying to be up to date or relatable to 80% dollar spending teenagers. like that recent hero movie with the kids making myspace pages of themselves as superheroes. i just resent that facebook and text messaging has seeped its way into any sort of communicative act within films--- maybe it's just a painful reminder of what's been lost. letter writing. eloquent dialogues. books, for chrissakes. poetry.
the nineties. i miss the nineties...
but today is monday. last night i watched "the other guys" with petter. i was hungover, on pot and vodka. we laughed throughout the movie, but in this incredulous, ridiculous, absurd way that you start tiring of, or that you start to resent. because the movie isn't really funny. it's just extremely bad. and that supposed bad "on purpose"- i read somewhere a review on rotten tomatoes that its a farce concocted to rich actors against multinational film corporation. uh huh huh. i think what irritates me the most about films coming out these days, particularly this one, is they have to constantly drop modern amenities in this ordinary way in the script, to show how easily they've become appropriated into daily life: facebook, ipods, myspace, prius electric cars, skyping, etc. Nothing is more sickening then a movie selfconsciously trying to be up to date or relatable to 80% dollar spending teenagers. like that recent hero movie with the kids making myspace pages of themselves as superheroes. i just resent that facebook and text messaging has seeped its way into any sort of communicative act within films--- maybe it's just a painful reminder of what's been lost. letter writing. eloquent dialogues. books, for chrissakes. poetry.
the nineties. i miss the nineties...