high maintenance

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characters

I never realized how great Francis' storylines are.

django unchained

qt has never disappointed me. he is my main sensei. his latest film is as much of a cinematic experience as all his previous work. not many other filmmakers have that ability. here's a great interview with charlie rose about the film.

happy 2013

plato on politics

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."

- plato

editing

I forgot how fucking hard movie editing is. It literally is the grammar and style of the filmmaking language, so you could imagine the vast complexities and endless permutations one encounters. I have been in the editing stage of my thesis film for the past several months, the main reason for my lack of entries among other things. I've found these pieces of information useful.

an intelligent design

Why can't this be the mysterious way God put Man on Earth?

the king

limping

plainview

re: attitude toward student loan debt.

FLW

i should've posted this months ago.

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."

- f. l. wright

summer tv line-up

with my time off, i've been able to watch tv, something i've been meaning to get back into for a while. here's my line-up:

important civilizations

"In general, important civilizations start with a rigid and superstitious system, gradually relaxed, and leading, at a certain stage, to a period of brilliant genius, while the good of the old tradition remains and the evil inherent in its dissolution has not yet developed. But as the evil unfolds, it leads to anarchy, thence, inevitably, to a new tyranny, producing a new synthesis secured by a new system of dogma."

- b. russell

just a ride

RIP MCA

i usually don't get sad when musicians die, but MCA was a personal hero of mine, ever since the first time i listened to the beastie boys as an awkward brown kid in middle school. in a weird way, i looked up to him, ad-rock, and mike d as older brothers. they were just so fuckin cool. id scour the net to watch interviews and live performances. id download all their shit, and then all the shit that they were influenced by, and then all the shit that those influences were influenced by. in high school, id make videos with my friends that pretty much ripped them off. in college, the first internship i ever got was for MCA's company, oscilloscope laboratories. i learned a lot there. fuck i cant believe he's dead.

my top 5 favorite beastie boys, uh, things...

idealism

"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist." - g. carlin

construction

article

stooges

2001: a space odyssey

mr. bean

edan

a white rapper for mlk day? fuck it. this is what they're referring to when they say 'that real brooklyn shit' (today's brooklyn shit, at least). my favorite live rap performance, tied with kanye west doing runaway (i added that after the page break).

and yes, he uses a fuckin' theremin.