I posted a picture of the outline of my Smiths/Morrissey ambigram tattoo, the rest should be done on Tuesday, then on to other pieces. Got so many tattoo ideas, I should pace them out, if not for pain and deciding, then just for sake of money. Then again, half the point is making life choices for good or ill and learning to live with them instead of dwell forever in a state of angst because of the shit in this life I cannot change. That is an important lesson for me.
OK, I have to bitch about Holy Motors, simply stated that film is a boring waste of time. I get it that you love Lynch, I do to, but cramming the screen full of as many odd images as you can think of is not Lynch-ian, it's the artistic equivalent of The Expendables with none of the Statham. Art films used to have soul and purpose and vision, now it just seems to be inhabited by people who are bereft of ideas and full an odd sense of entitlement that their ideas are magic based solely on the fact that they thought them up. Sometimes an editor or collaborator to tell you your idea is in need of revision isn't a art inhibiting waste of time. Instead it's a CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.
I can walk out of Mulholland Drive or Django Unchained and have conversations for hours about characters, motivations, meaning, choices, and a slew of other topics. I walk out of Holy Motors and think how any one putting this in top ten lists or even worse, as top choice, is trying so desperately to appear intelligent. As if art for the sake of art is an unassailable position, and not a boring wank-fest. Seriously, I would have been more impressed if you had just filmed yourself jerking off for 2 hours.
Anywho, not to be someone who trashes someone else's hard work without offering anything to the world to be destroyed by critics such as myself. I am debating again buying a camera, mine is old and outdated and wasn't much better than a point and shoot even then. With money being tight I don't know if i should bite the bullet and buy a cheap as fuck, bottom of the barrel DSLR and do my best to make it useful or just give that up and go back to trying to make terrible music. Man if i had the motivation to work on multiple projects, can barely start one working my half-assed schedule. But either way, something will be attempted, just so I can say I tried and didn't just sit on the sidelines complaining.
But not today, off to work to be treated like a no one, yes I work in the service industry.
Wow, OK. was about to sign off, but realize that all kinda sounds complain-y. I don't want to be a negative shit-bag. I won't erase my thoughts, just clarify (if only for myself) that OK the movie sucked and wasted time and money, but I think my argument has validity. As for my various attempts at creation, it's not a self defeating attitude I'm trying to convey, just realistic expectations. I'm excited to try and create, but as with all creation, it's not just the sex and fun, it's the childbirth and pain. Historically I have been a fan of the path of least resistance and I need to break that habit.
Thank you for reading this far, if in fact anyone did, it means something that anyone in the whole world will listen to me this much.
James
OK, I have to bitch about Holy Motors, simply stated that film is a boring waste of time. I get it that you love Lynch, I do to, but cramming the screen full of as many odd images as you can think of is not Lynch-ian, it's the artistic equivalent of The Expendables with none of the Statham. Art films used to have soul and purpose and vision, now it just seems to be inhabited by people who are bereft of ideas and full an odd sense of entitlement that their ideas are magic based solely on the fact that they thought them up. Sometimes an editor or collaborator to tell you your idea is in need of revision isn't a art inhibiting waste of time. Instead it's a CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.
I can walk out of Mulholland Drive or Django Unchained and have conversations for hours about characters, motivations, meaning, choices, and a slew of other topics. I walk out of Holy Motors and think how any one putting this in top ten lists or even worse, as top choice, is trying so desperately to appear intelligent. As if art for the sake of art is an unassailable position, and not a boring wank-fest. Seriously, I would have been more impressed if you had just filmed yourself jerking off for 2 hours.
Anywho, not to be someone who trashes someone else's hard work without offering anything to the world to be destroyed by critics such as myself. I am debating again buying a camera, mine is old and outdated and wasn't much better than a point and shoot even then. With money being tight I don't know if i should bite the bullet and buy a cheap as fuck, bottom of the barrel DSLR and do my best to make it useful or just give that up and go back to trying to make terrible music. Man if i had the motivation to work on multiple projects, can barely start one working my half-assed schedule. But either way, something will be attempted, just so I can say I tried and didn't just sit on the sidelines complaining.
But not today, off to work to be treated like a no one, yes I work in the service industry.
Wow, OK. was about to sign off, but realize that all kinda sounds complain-y. I don't want to be a negative shit-bag. I won't erase my thoughts, just clarify (if only for myself) that OK the movie sucked and wasted time and money, but I think my argument has validity. As for my various attempts at creation, it's not a self defeating attitude I'm trying to convey, just realistic expectations. I'm excited to try and create, but as with all creation, it's not just the sex and fun, it's the childbirth and pain. Historically I have been a fan of the path of least resistance and I need to break that habit.
Thank you for reading this far, if in fact anyone did, it means something that anyone in the whole world will listen to me this much.
James