Eric Rothman
@ericmsandwich
Filmmaker, editor, animator, stationary bicycle rider, sandwich enthusiast. My work has won very few awards. I currently reside in Dayton, Ohio.
Eric Rothman
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CAFÉ ANNE | Anne Kadet | Substack
annekadet.substack.com
Anne brings serious journalism to wacky, offbeat New York weirdness. I find her curiosity and openness to adventure completely inspiring. I want to be more like her. Also, her writing makes me laugh out loud, even when I’m completely alone, which puts her in the same league of genuinely funny writers as Scott Adams and David Sedaris and not too many others.
David Lynch lashes out at crew for not letting him go dreamy
youtube.comI don’t know if I can say that I love all of David Lynch’s films, but I love him as an artist. He doesn’t accept “this is just the way things are done.” By default, life pushes you around, and to work the way you want to work, you need to ask for it. Sometimes you will forget to do this, but this clip of David Lynch being upset will remind you, and you’ll ask for what you need and the world will open up to you a little.
"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."
- Ray Bradbury
Do We Have Free Will? | Robert Sapolsky & Andrew Huberman
youtube.comRS just puts it better. I like to listen to this from time to time to remember what conscious life actually is and how change works.
Bourdain/Ripert: Would you suggest someone attend CIA or any other cooking school?
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A story of culture and norms overriding the default urge to find blame.
“…the primary purpose of an aircraft accident investigation is to prevent future accidents — a decision that implicitly privileged prevention above the search for liability. Conducting a police-style investigation that faults a deceased pilot does nothing to affect the probability of future accidents.”
“The test of one’s decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring.”
I'm diagnosed schizophrenic, and the main barrier to re-entering the world after my first psychotic break was that I could no longer relate to the person I once was. My memories felt like memories of another person outside of myself, I didn't believe it was me. It was very traumatizing and I withdrew from everyone I knew and became catatonic for... See more