Thesis
A woman in trouble, initiated at the TV’s glow, dissociating in the hum of its static until that escape is swiftly shattered, snuffed out in the suffocating violence inherent to feminine reality, form, figure, and face robbed in death’s reckoning, unseen until it is too late, souls sunken far below the world’s boundaries into a system subsisting on their pain and sorrow, hearts filled with love languishing within a sea of tears, crying out amidst frameworks they couldn’t hope…
My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it…be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just this year, Netflix released the latest cinematization of the Jeffrey Dahmer case, entitled Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, depicting the circumstances of the eponymous serial killer’s life leading into his thirteen-year-long murder spree. Noteworthy about this release was an outpour of negativity towards the production due to several…
To be online is an increasingly terminal diagnosis, dissociation almost an inevitability while reaching within the interiors of the Internet, be it adhering to the burgeoning scope of true crime theorizing or truly acceding to the allure of its darkest recesses, it matters not, becoming nigh impossible not to project out innermost insufficiencies onto the everyday irrespective, in turn impacting the lives of real-world victims of atrocity, simply so these voyeuristic tendencies can be satiated, if not justified, for if…
Finding your own way within a world based on adherence, to rules, to obligations, to people, principle and spirit merge into inner peace, enabling us to see that, rather than reducing humanity in pursuits of power, that preserving genuine connection is the path to protecting everyone from the ceaseless cyclings of infighting wrought by the ever-shifting structures of our world. It may not be Green Snake, but Hark by way of Lucas/Miller in the Chinese blockbuster machine? You know it’s going to be a great time.
Raggedy Ann & Andy ran so Toy Story could crawl. Pay some respect.
Would've posted this on Paint Drying but found it only appropriate to put on a movie that legitimately affirmed me as I allowed my fears over the mess that is my identity to rest. Maybe you noticed from the name/avatar change, I don't know, but I'm here to say, even though the thought of making it real on such a scale leaves me wrecked with anxiety, that I've come to a realization that I can no longer deny: I am…
