No no, keep reading, there's a meme!
Sep. 30th, 2006 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyIt's another in a series of Very Good Days. I'm listening to Amon Tobin very loud; not obnoxiously so, but louder than I'd be allowed if mum was in the house. She's not, of course - she's off at a workshop singing Beethoven, and dad's at the launderette, and G's off at some friend's house and it's just me and Amon Tobin and Crowley the computer, reading SG:A and pondering writing some fiction.
I've woken up now. It took a bit of time, this morning, because I was up late hoping that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
unravels might pop up online, and then there was the Invasion of the Boiler Men and I was forced out of bed rather before I was ready. The morning, then, was full of badly dubbed martial arts and pineapple juice, and rambling thoughts about 'Goodies' and 'Baddies'.
It's a very poorly defined line, that, and that's really the best way for it to be. I mean, any action movie ever, the goodie ends up doing things very nearly as bad as the baddie, most times. But we forgive them because we're supposed to, because they're Arnie, because the baddie killed their wife or what have you. *waves hand* You know the kind of thing I mean.
So how far do we go accepting what we're told to think? Action movies, 95% of the time, are designed so that you don't have to think; you watch, you accept, you react how you're told to. It's okay, of course, because the baddies aren't really people and often have bad hair.
I'm not working up to a big point here, or anything, but if anyone knows of any articles or writings about this sort of thing I'd be very interested in reading them. Because the films in which the medium accepts that what the supposed 'good guy' is doing is actually morally unacceptable, or that the 'baddie' is, in fact, a human being, are far more engaging. I've never done any sort of film/media studies, and my literature is also somewhat lacking, so I'd really like to hear what the experts have to say.
Ramblings with no conclusion because I haven't slept enough and have no tea, but they've left me with an urge to watch Hero or read some Dark Tower.
What else I was going to write about I think will have to wait until I've actually thought about it some more - my brain processes as I write, and suchlike. Because they really need some work, which is why it always absolutely fascinates me when I read things by writers I admire about how they write.
Examples:
You said I'd better know what I was doing bymusesfool.
The next story after this bycesperanza.
If anyone else has any links to posts of the sort, or articles or books or anything, please let me know. I'll swap you for random links in my memories/bookmarks. *grins*
Hell, why not make a meme of it?
Leave me a link from your bookmarks/memories list, and I'll give you one in return. Show me something I'd never have read on my own, that'd be very cool.
I've woken up now. It took a bit of time, this morning, because I was up late hoping that
unravels might pop up online, and then there was the Invasion of the Boiler Men and I was forced out of bed rather before I was ready. The morning, then, was full of badly dubbed martial arts and pineapple juice, and rambling thoughts about 'Goodies' and 'Baddies'. It's a very poorly defined line, that, and that's really the best way for it to be. I mean, any action movie ever, the goodie ends up doing things very nearly as bad as the baddie, most times. But we forgive them because we're supposed to, because they're Arnie, because the baddie killed their wife or what have you. *waves hand* You know the kind of thing I mean.
So how far do we go accepting what we're told to think? Action movies, 95% of the time, are designed so that you don't have to think; you watch, you accept, you react how you're told to. It's okay, of course, because the baddies aren't really people and often have bad hair.
I'm not working up to a big point here, or anything, but if anyone knows of any articles or writings about this sort of thing I'd be very interested in reading them. Because the films in which the medium accepts that what the supposed 'good guy' is doing is actually morally unacceptable, or that the 'baddie' is, in fact, a human being, are far more engaging. I've never done any sort of film/media studies, and my literature is also somewhat lacking, so I'd really like to hear what the experts have to say.
Ramblings with no conclusion because I haven't slept enough and have no tea, but they've left me with an urge to watch Hero or read some Dark Tower.
What else I was going to write about I think will have to wait until I've actually thought about it some more - my brain processes as I write, and suchlike. Because they really need some work, which is why it always absolutely fascinates me when I read things by writers I admire about how they write.
Examples:
You said I'd better know what I was doing by
musesfool.The next story after this by
cesperanza. If anyone else has any links to posts of the sort, or articles or books or anything, please let me know. I'll swap you for random links in my memories/bookmarks. *grins*
Hell, why not make a meme of it?
Leave me a link from your bookmarks/memories list, and I'll give you one in return. Show me something I'd never have read on my own, that'd be very cool.
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Date: 2006-09-30 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-09-30 02:23 pm (UTC)Kolmogorov, probably the greatest Russian mathematician (and possibly the greatest mathematician full stop) of the twentieth century, on his life with Aleksandrov (another great Russian mathematician, though not quite in the same league):
"for me these 53 years of close and indissoluble friendship were the reason why all my life was on the whole full of happiness, and the basis of that happiness was the unceasing thoughtfulness on the part of Aleksandrov."
From here.
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Date: 2006-09-30 02:37 pm (UTC)http://www.muzeumkomunismu.cz/
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Date: 2006-09-30 02:40 pm (UTC)http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/spoofs_satire/be_not_afraid.php
XD
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Date: 2006-09-30 02:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-30 02:44 pm (UTC)♥ thank you for that link.
:D!
It reminds me of reading 'a short history of nearly everything' and slashing geologists. I'll have to look at that again, find out more about them.
*grins* (http://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/Czech.1.html#so0)
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Date: 2006-09-30 02:56 pm (UTC)I'm downloading SG:A 1x17.
Fuck you, man.
*cries the tears of the broken*
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Date: 2006-09-30 02:58 pm (UTC)*bounces a hella lot*
Have you read any fic?
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Date: 2006-09-30 03:01 pm (UTC)MCKAY ICON.
And no, no fic yet. Because ahhhh I want to catch up to current canon, in case I inadvertently spoil myself and I can't stop watching and I ONLY EVER MEANT TO HUMOUR YOU GODDAMMIT.
MCKAY ICON.
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Date: 2006-09-30 03:05 pm (UTC)And I could totally make you up a list of non-spoilery recs, if you wanted...
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Date: 2006-09-30 03:13 pm (UTC)I... if you make me up the list of recs, I'll read them. And never get anything done. So... not yet.
You need to watch Deadwood. Zelenka is Blazanov IN SPACE.
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Date: 2006-09-30 03:20 pm (UTC)Am around now, though. *insert pathetically hopeful look*
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Date: 2006-09-30 03:40 pm (UTC)No reason. :D (http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/welsh.htm)
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Date: 2006-09-30 05:08 pm (UTC)Screw sunscreen. Drink tea.
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Date: 2006-10-02 03:03 pm (UTC)Here you go (http://www.overheardinlondon.co.uk/).