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I've had like three albums on repeat the last couple days and they've been a lot of fun to listen to. I feel like I've been without a good album that I'm really enjoying to listen to the last month or so, but now I've got like three and feel as though they have revitalized my music listening a bit. The three albums are: Redstar Wu & The Worldwide Scourge by Genesis Owusu, amazing album from variety of musical sound, and production skill, to the lyricism and meaning behind those lyrics, just phenomenal. you seem pretty sad for a girl in love by Olivia Rodrigo, this was the first Olivia album I've listened to and it did not disappoint, I loved the sound, and wasn't expecting how engaged I'd be, it felt very fresh, and I loved the lyrics, I had to listen to GUTS now and it was great too! Maggot Brain by Funkadelic, This album has been on my radar for a while and I must say that it is a classic for a reason because it just kills, the whole album just incredible music

Just watched Marty Life Is Short, and I love it. I think it was a movie I needed to see right now, and kind of inspired along with a few other things, my last post about finding some direction. Seeing Martin Short's life in this doc was just so cool to see the path he took, the things he faced, and most importantly how he handled them.

I'm going to make something about comedy. Like most of my endeavors it will combine my skills and interests on weird philosophy about communication and meaning, and that will be all good and well. I won't get where I'm aiming at, but I will get somewhere with it. I just had this realization that all the things currently in my life are pointing to this thing that I am failing to describe now, but that's kinda the point that I can't describe it now. Anyway just wanted to put that out there. I'm glad I've found this because I've been feeling like something is missing and almost there. Although perhaps I'll have a realization that this is nothing, but that's part of it too, at least now I have somewhere to aim

Watched Dazed and Confused last night. It was 70's nostalgia for someone born long after the 70's. As someone who loved 'that 70's show' growing up and was born in 04, I appreciated it. It's an interesting movie, no real direction, but I see what people love about it. The movie covers a lot of things that could be normal in the 70's and some would look at and think either it's good things have changed or we should go back. The patriarchy is strong with this film, and perhaps that's the point, but I don't think either is right because obviously we shouldn't have all the messed up stuff, but what people are longing for is a sense of community, which this movie displays well through comradery in troubling times, traditions, passing the torch, discovering together, etc.. I'm all for that and think this movie encapsulates that really well. It's also a coming of age movie which most find hard to resist.

I need to write another blog post, and even though a lot has happened, and I've got a lot to say, nothing has been jumping at me like I need to write about it, but maybe I'm just out of practice.

Weather is nice today though, I like it

We should have listened when the millennials said #AdultingIsHard

Entertaining the idea of a discrete world opens the possibility of perfection in such a world

Following up on my previous post. I didn't want to re-write it, but I ran out of space and I want to clarify that I did like movie in general, up front, no reading between the lines, it was well made, and pretty well written plot. I just thought that the sub-text I picked up on what cool, and that I feel like action movies aren't anything if they don't have something like this. What is action if not hyperbolic, larger than life, and a way to hide a metaphor in exaggerated human interaction. I just wanted to clarify a bit because my other post felt a little too much like me saying you can't enjoy the action in an action movie. Action isn't my favourite, but I love when it's used like this.

I just watched 'The Departed' and I really liked it. It's really interesting because I found the literal masking of identities with the blatant nods towards how that masking affects the character's abilities to be themselves, quite literally trapping them, to be very well done. I was curious as to other's perspectives on how the actual plot of the movie was just an abstract way of showcasing how identities we mask with affect us via the patriarchy, institutionalized racism, institutions such as the police or organized crime, etc,. So I searched up the movie only to find reviews full of people praising Scorsese for the glorious action sequences, or how cool being a cop or a gangster looks, or just talking about how Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio stole the show. I was just a little taken-a-back by how you could watch a movie like this and only view it as, "huh, cool action movie, kinda weird ending". I don't know, if you've seen the movie what did you think? I ran out of space.