#454

Well, well, well. Bitching and moaning about having to participate in an economy again, eh, Joseph?

Sure. Yeah. It's the most demonic imposition in modern times, with infinite nested impositions that serve to make our existences incredibly stupid and subject to the most unnecessary pressures and mandates.

As Tony Soprano says, eloquently as any human being ever could: "Cocksuckin' motherfuckin' money."

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But whatever. The actual point is I didn't have anything useful to say, or fun to look at. That defeats the purpose of engaging with the fifty million layers of money and bullshit I accept into my life when I plug in a laptop and use it to interface with anything. 

A flash of insight, a moment of entertainment. That's the best I can do for you, and the best we can grab for ourselves day by day in this fucked up T.S. Eliot poem we call life, the Beckett play of history.

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Sadly, I don't have much to say. I just want to make visual art right now. And play Final Fantasy. Played through and beat VII again recently, which spurred me to VIII, which I am within a hair's breadth of completing, and then I shall play IX. Probably X after that, very likely, and maybe X-2, XII, XIII and XIII-2 after that. We'll see. I'm pretty into that jag at the moment.

As for other media, well, how about a list? Just of movies. That and the games are all that have been up aside from the odd Star Wars book or splash of comics. More details on those another time. Movies!

Only Yesterday

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children* (yes, this marinated for a while and then gave rise to the subsequent intense reengagement with FF, said series having had an instrumental hand in making me the person I am today)

Cadet Kelly*

Men In Black *$

Basquiat

Pig

Leaving Las Vegas

Topsy-Turvy

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Chef

The Island *

The Marvels

Captain Marvel*

Alien: Covenant *

Bram Stoker's Dracula*

Your Name.$

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

Muppet Treasure Island*

Also, documentaries:

Jim Henson: Idea Man

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

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Probably Ezra and I will go see Alien: Romulus on Sunday morning.

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What else is up, and good? Put some cute Pokémon stickers on my metal water bottle, whose current stickers were getting hella decrepit despite their mod-podge coating. But it's brightened up and freshly coated, so that's nice. Got a Magikarp on there, one of my favorite little dudes ever. In one or another of the latest Dex entries, the developers went so far as to call Magirkarp an idiot. Actually an idiot, right there for the children! Perfection.

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Work is cool because it is easy, and I get to sketch and doodle there a lot. Also it is a great place to have fun conversations, including with one of my best friends. What more could you want, frankly? All that and free movies, when you can get 'em. Part of me still marvels that it can be like this. I should indeed be grateful--and am--to an adequate measure. No reason I shouln't get universal basic provisions as well, amirite boys?

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Nest time I'll probably write about how fucking cool Final Fantasy is. 

K peace

--JL