seeking a vibe (for the end of the world)
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seeking a vibe (for the end of the world)
As awful as these events have been, I am no longer struck by their horror. They all seem to be the near-inevitable, direct effects of how we are running our political economies. I am more struck by our slow ability to react.
Spencer R. Scott • End the Horror, Let the Crisis Change You
SDJ: I went in and I pitched the idea of MIRACLE MILE to Mark Rosenberg who was the head of production at Warner Brothers (Marks brother Alan is part of the ensemble of diner actors in MIRACLE MILE this meeting is discussed in the Johnies cast reunion on the Blu-Ray). I pitched him the idea: What would you do if that phone rang? They liked the
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Seeking a friend for the end of the world
Directed by: Lorene Scafaria
Written by: Lorene Scafaria
the vibe at the end of the world is scary. of course.
it’s impossible to argue with the fact that everything you know, everyone you’ve met, this whole life experience you’ve had will come to an end. that all that came before this moment did not and will
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seeking a vibe for the end of the world.
status: #Project #Draft
type: #Video
the world is ending.
then again, the world has been ending for a very long time.
if you want to be philosophical about it, the world has been ending from the moment the dictionary/Anthropocene began. another way to look at it, the
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Dorian Lynskeytheguardian.comNow the 1990s seem like a period when the world was starting to go crazy, but not so crazy that it was unmanageable or irreparable. It was the end of the twentieth century, but also the end to an age when we controlled technology more than technology controlled us. People played by the old rules, despite a growing recognition that those rules were
... See moreChuck Klosterman • The Nineties: A Book
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” The critic and novelist Namwali Serpell told me that the quotation appeals to her in this moment, even though Žižek’s translation is slightly unfaithful to the original. The phrase “now is the time of monsters,” Serpell said, “allows us to think about the... See more
Kyle Chayka • The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era
Miracle Mile (1988)
Director: Steve Dejarnatt
Writer: Steve Dejarnatt
In Miracle Mile, the End of the World is not the story but instead a deadline.
What starts as a sweet love story, bordering on routine Rom-Com suddenly descends into a real-time race against time, in a quest to reaffirm that love story.
I find it a little difficult selling this
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