As a fellow night owl I approve this substack post. Getting up at 6 am does not make you morally superior. Long live night owls and day light savings time.
I watched The Coffee Table and thought it was one of the worst, if not the worst, film I’ve ever seen in my life. A friend who I watched it with really enjoyed it, pushing back that the very things that I hated about it are what the director was going for and why it was a good movie (I don’t believe he thought it was great or amazing). The paradox you laid out is exactly right. On one level, it’s a technical feat to make a film that is so unsettling and awful that people came away angry, but why make that movie, because no one will watch it then……….right?
I land at the same spot, Eli. I will never recommend that movie to anyone. Ever.
I sleep 10 hours a day/night and always have. I’d fall asleep during lecture in college because I could usually only get 8.
You can argue that puts me at an institutional disadvantage, but now that I’m working every waking hour on my own project it’s also just a disadvantage.
I still prefer that to the feeling that I’m spending every valuable conscious hour in the service of an employer. It’s definitely been formative for my political opinions around labor.
As a fellow night owl I approve this substack post. Getting up at 6 am does not make you morally superior. Long live night owls and day light savings time.
I watched The Coffee Table and thought it was one of the worst, if not the worst, film I’ve ever seen in my life. A friend who I watched it with really enjoyed it, pushing back that the very things that I hated about it are what the director was going for and why it was a good movie (I don’t believe he thought it was great or amazing). The paradox you laid out is exactly right. On one level, it’s a technical feat to make a film that is so unsettling and awful that people came away angry, but why make that movie, because no one will watch it then……….right?
I land at the same spot, Eli. I will never recommend that movie to anyone. Ever.
I sleep 10 hours a day/night and always have. I’d fall asleep during lecture in college because I could usually only get 8.
You can argue that puts me at an institutional disadvantage, but now that I’m working every waking hour on my own project it’s also just a disadvantage.
I still prefer that to the feeling that I’m spending every valuable conscious hour in the service of an employer. It’s definitely been formative for my political opinions around labor.