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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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the weirder, the better
instagram.comWe’re not the first cohort to experience a crisis. To experience the passing of time. And by passing of time, I mean the dawning realisation that time is finite, and we might have already wasted a lot. We used to have time to burn. But it was a late blooming into misery.
While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for... See more
While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for... See more
Bride Jabour • ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy
been thinking a bunch about the delayed/extended adolescence that all of us millenials seem to be stuck in, even as we blow past a quarterlife crisis. even as we're on the wrong side of 30.
notes/on notetaking, notemaking and research
> status: #notes #livedoc
book/ "How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking"
be open in research
- confirmation bias harms more than helps
- when researching aim for \*any relevant\* info, indiscriminately
- especially if the source opposes your main argument or
... See moreThe artist is distinguished from all other responsible actors in society — the politicians, legislators, educators, and scientists — by the fact that he is his own test tube, his own laboratory, working according to very rigorous rules, however unstated these may be, and cannot allow any consideration to supersede his responsibility to reveal all
... See moreMaria Popova • James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
I learned about pathological demand avoidance, a pattern of behavior that is still up for debate in the ASD world but that for me represented a seismic OS update. It explained why I would unfailingly refuse to do something when asked, and why a demand or request would trigger an overwhelming sense of panic and certitude that I would only disappoint
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