I came across a film called I Origins which is directed by Max Cahill, who also directed Another Earth, which remains as one of my favorite films and stars one of my (lo-key) favorite actors Brit Marling. I love everything she’s done. It is the appropriate level of weird and trippy. I remain in on her work as well as that of her entire crew, which includes Cahill. Discovering that film reminded me of what I’ve been missing in cinema. I miss work that is interesting and new. I don’t get a lot of that as of late. I get marvelized cinema and bad cinema and good ideas done poorly. That last one is reflective of roughly half of Poker Face, which should be a solid show given the cast but only shines in moments.
I’m not sure what the above has to do with anything but it was on my mind, so I wrote it down. There’s more on my mind… below.
Some Thoughts:
- Unintentional ASMR is deeply relaxing. At one point in my life I worked for the ISU Alumni group and was responsible for making calls. This is where I first truly rediscovered my love for ASMR without even knowing what it was. I’d known it as a child listening to Bob Ross and falling into a chillaxed stupor, but some of those Alumni calls zoned me so completely out that I was just like, ‘keep talking while my mind reels’. I hate that people try to turn it sexual. It isn’t about that for me, which is unfortunate because that is what it is about for a majority of creators. It means I have a hard time finding the ‘good good’. A Tinder Date with a sultry Vampire is not the good good. It is in fact the bad bad.
- This is the Good Good. Respect to Bob Ross, this dude here is fire.