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    6 minutes ago, thefxbip said:

    I think artists dont really choose how a particular talent is gonna be expressed. It's a compulsive and obsessive thing. The subject chooses you more than the contrary. I really believe that.

    It's in him. He has a talent for it and obsession for it. I don't think he has much of a choice.  Even if he tries to avoid it, it's gonna come back to him.

    The same way Monet was obsessed about lilies this guy is obsessed about the weird dark aspect of the human experience. I think he is genuine about it.

    That's a good point, actually.

     

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    13 minutes ago, thefxbip said:

    I must say i agree with him. I think he is talking about the extremely weird aspect of reality than looking for shock. The secret pocket of reality living in people brains and lives that is rarely explored. I think he is looking for catharsis more than shock.

    Don't you find it a bit suspicious that all of his stories are like this? Like, the story about the hot tub, bug-chasers, incest and guts, the woman in hell where it's just semen everywhere, the novel about the gangbang and all the gross ways to die from sex...it just starts to look like he can't slow down because he set the gross-out bar too high...

    (Btw I still really like Lullaby and Invisible Monsters)

    EDIT: THAT GANGBANG NOVEL IS ABOUT A PORNSTAR'S. ANGRY SON WAITING IN LINE TO FUCK HER TO DEATH

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    2 minutes ago, thefxbip said:

    I can understand that sentiment about Chuck hahaha

    Other than that anyone has an interest in reading screenplays? Started reading a few and i like it. It feels like recreating the movie. Hacking it with the imaginary mod. If anyone has good ones send me links.

    https://www.beingcharliekaufman.com/index.php/scripts-writing/scripts-writing

    Recommended: 

    1) How and Why - script for supernatural horror\comedy TV pilot (which was filmed but unreleased, starring Michael Cera and that dude from Deadwood)...i really wanna see how thos would play out...

    2) Frank or Francis - Charlie Kaufman wrote a feature-length musical, recruited a bunch of (then)A-listers like Steve Carell, Jack Black and Katherine Keener, and still couldn't get financing...

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    7 minutes ago, thefxbip said:

    Did you read Consider This: Moments In My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk?

    Im intrigued by this one. I don't think i'll write a novel or anything but i usually enjoy what he has to say about storytelling and the creative process.

    I used to love Chuck Palahniuk. Invisible Monsters was my favorite novel for a few years. I read a bunch of his stuff.

    But then I started to get this nagging feeling that he was leaning a bit too much on shock-value as a crutch. And it seemed to get worse and worse...

    And then I saw him on JRE, and I realized that his whole shtick was just peddling shock as though it's some sort of inherently-redemptive experience. And that's when I seinfeld-in-theater-gif noped out of Chuch Palahniuk for good. 

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    Story Genius: how to use brain science to go beyond outlining and write a riveting novel (before you waste three years writing 327 pages that go nowhere) - by Lisa Cron

    The last book-about-writing that I read--Several Short Sentences About Writing--was so good, so well-written that I don't even know how to describe it.

    This book, by contrast, is the sort of rubbish you would expect to find in the age of Ted Talks and clickbait. Your readers are short-attention-span cavemen in need of escapism from their shit lives, so you need to 'hack their brain' because dopamine and evolution and...plus it's so terribly written. So lousy with cliche, so shallow on every level. Blech. 

     

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    2 hours ago, thefxbip said:

    Found a used Eschyle complete plays book for 3 bucks. Enjoying this a lot more than i thought. Prometheus Bound was great. 

     

     

    Reminds me ive been wanting to read this for quite a while. Just ordered it.

    Henri Bergson's (poorly-titled) Two Sources of Morality and Religion is a beautiful book in the same ballpark. (James was a fan of Bergson and vice versa). 

     

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    22 minutes ago, luke viia said:

    nice =]

    If you get through Process and Reality we should form a study group, lol. I read Modes of Thought earlier this year and was glad I had prepped myself with some introductions to process philosophy (by Mesle) beforehand. I'm interested in tackling PAR at some point but expect to have to chew on it for a very long time. There's a YouTuber, footnotes2plato, who has some good lectures on Whitehead (he's also quite handsome, so that helps, lol)

    Yeah P&R is fucking brutal--it definitely requires some secondary sources. Luckily a bunch of the main ideas are paraphrased in Adventures of Ideas. ('a nExuS of SociEtieS of acTual OccaSsiOns!$?!!')

    But Jesus I own so many 1,000-page tomes that I've yet to read. I've got a squirrel-brain with books, where I just buy as many books as I possibly can.

    I read like 2-3hrs/day (no job lol) and I still can't put a dent in my book collection.

     

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    18 minutes ago, luke viia said:

    finished William James' Varieties of Religious Experience yesterday - good stuff, he's quite easy to read, though I doubt many on watmm would care for the topic. 

    I do.

    I love WJ and also I've thoroughly turned my back on rationalism/atheism/scientism/etc

    I'm jumping around rn, nibbling on a bunch of books I've amassed but not yet read, among them Whitehead's Process and Reality and The Adventure(s?) Of Ideas, some texts on Kabbalah, Guattari essays, interviews and his screenplay(!!!), also some Charlie Kaufman scripts that were never brought to life...

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    1 hour ago, Wunderbar said:

    so did u guys learn anything cool from all this reading?

    (Personally) I wouldn't even know where to begin. Reading is kinda my favorite thing in the world (rn, at least). 

    I'm fascinated by people and their existential dimension. Many people around me (sometimes including me) are just perpetually having a bad time. No doubt some of that stems from the world itself being toxic in various ways, but very often it's rather something internal. ('Neurosis' tends to have a biographical basis.) So anyway much of what I read points in that direction.

    (The three case studies by Freud are kinda *extreme* examples of this, the case of Lola Voss in Binswanger's Being-in-the-World too. They all entail these patients' elaborate 'world-designs', where Schreber thinks to stave off the Apocalypse he's gotta become God's bride and shoot this healing light out of his asshole to like resurrect all the world's dead and there's some mystical Sun-Anus that he worships, and Lola Voss is *ahem* obsessed with hunchbacks and she thinks an oracle God has sprinkled clues all around her that she's gotta decipher and if she wears the wrong dress and uses the wrong pen when writing a letter then the world will end...)

    So...that's what I've learned in the last week lol.

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    Bought in last 3 days:

    -Freud, S, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

    -Freud, S, Three Case Histories: The "Wolf Man," The "Rat Man," and The Psychotic Doctor Schreber

    -Kristeva, Julia, The Old Man and the Wolves

    Cohen, Leonard, Selected Poems 1956-1968 (paperback from 1969 woot woot)

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    Zero Effect [(3+2i)/pi] - I love this movie and am happy to watch it once or twice a year. I've got a thing for Sherlock Holmes stories in disguise, where Bill Pullman is the drug-addict/musician/neurotic-recluse/consultant and Ben Stiller is his permanently-flummoxed sidekick. I have a deep all-consuming nostalgia for the sorta IFC era of films that were, y'know, 90-minutes and structurally very ordinary, but where the story had some heart and was a little bizarre. 

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    40 minutes ago, thefxbip said:

    Barely have any knowledge of maths but on the subject, those talks were quite interesting.

    I love David Albert (from the panel in the first vid): he's a rare case of someone who knows as much philosophy as he does mathematics physics. 

     

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