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a personal parenthesis
at 23 i left home, not just the house i lived in but the country i lived in, to pursue an abstract "better life".
i wasn't sure what it would look like, but a new job gave me a ticket out and i took it with the full confidence that in about 5 years i would know what was actually next in my life. a stepping stone into a five
... See moreLast Night (1998)
Directed by
Written by
Don McKellar
To suggest that Last Night shows an apocalypse that is low key is almost doing it a disservice. In fact, I almost want to suggest it is a cozy end to the world. It's quiet, intimate and refuses to give into the spectacle of your usual end of the world story. It's worth mentioning that
... See moreWe’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.
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 moreCapitalism, he noted, is not something imposed on us by some outside force. It only exists because every day we wake up and continue to produce it. If we woke up one morning and all collectively decided to produce something else, then we wouldn’t have capitalism anymore.
David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
White people love black art until it forces them to see or engage black pain beyond caricatures and stereotypes. To avoid confronting black pain, white audiences turn to white artists who appropriate black art without substance.