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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
... See moreDescription begins with visualization of what it is you want the reader to experience. It ends with your translating what you see in your mind into words on the page.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
The 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
L.A. Takedown
en.m.wikipedia.org
on The Cabin in The Woods
***seeking a vibe at the end of the world***
i wanted to start this by saying that “i’ve been thinking about the end of the world lately” but it's hard to make that sound not… dramatic. pretentious. but it is true (though not the ‘lately’ bit). i've been here a long time. not so much thinking about the fact of the world ending, but the period
... See moreFlaubert famously said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
This quote isn’t that funny anymore once you realize that it is our reality. Economism has pervaded not only politics (economic growth goal) or our private lives (e.g. self-optimization) but also future thinking: Everything has to have a business case now! Visions of a... See more
This quote isn’t that funny anymore once you realize that it is our reality. Economism has pervaded not only politics (economic growth goal) or our private lives (e.g. self-optimization) but also future thinking: Everything has to have a business case now! Visions of a... See more