sometimes you come across a piece of writing that as you read it you hear the writer ramble and can hear a certain focus. that focus can be the story the writer is trying to write or an unknown focus which manifests itself in the pace and structure of the sentences. punctuation and all that, grammar. this was evident to me when i found the writing of kannibalcorpsegrinder on the imdb user reviews for the movie Karma. after reading his review, maybe 3/4ths of the way in, a certain reality that i could understand showed itself in this vague self referencing, picture flashes of all the nerds i ever spoke to with this focus while retelling a piece of fiction they admired and a certain inattentiveness to worldly time. i could identify. and i appreciated it so much more when i delved into his profile and saw the rest of the reviews he had written for films that i would never see or even have access to. real obscure classics. people are into what theyre into but there is so much stuff already out there but most people dont have the patience to allow themselves to fall into a different pace that isnt dictated by the current trend for "new" which maybe for me has started to feel "rushed" "low quality" "breakable" and all those words that describe cheap. maybe i am thinking of old dollar store or current pop music. if you can ignore what current trends try to lure you away from, your time, would you be happier without the machine prodding your interests towards devaluing your time and compartmentalizing your attention? i was thinking about these long standing user content driven sites, like blogger, blog sites, long standing websites, forums, review spots, that are still around, you can find the old posts going back a decade, decades would be great, i like that. the old haunts. why change anything when it comes to a pile of data that is already accessible. its not like its been a hundred years and we cant understand the language anymore. getting to the juice is the climb. so much fluff out there. capturing the essence of a time is finding a sample of it unchanged, recreating and making it new makes it dated. the best writing you come across is a comment so dense and close to the writers personal dialect or a vividly described other reality, that youre all of a sudden somewhere else. i guess im watching movies on youtube and trying to find a good one on imdb, could you guess. because i cant afford netflix and shouldnt have ever paid for that because finding flicks on netflix is such a bore kind of like these movies on youtube. oh yeah scifi canadian movies over soccer mom flicks.
time is money, attention is time.
when i read pieces of writing that transcend space and time, i like length and clarity but above all i like reading into the passion the writer has for the subject of his writing. i also appreciate a sense of writing that isnt click based or ad based. i like finding a complete world when im avoiding mine, and mine is already filled with wants that are manufactured. a different and complete world is the best time capsule. and how do you handle pace in dated films.
time is money, attention is time.
when i read pieces of writing that transcend space and time, i like length and clarity but above all i like reading into the passion the writer has for the subject of his writing. i also appreciate a sense of writing that isnt click based or ad based. i like finding a complete world when im avoiding mine, and mine is already filled with wants that are manufactured. a different and complete world is the best time capsule. and how do you handle pace in dated films.
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