Halcyon Mix For 08 03 12

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Irreversible

The other day, three people in separate conversations recommended a film to me that I've been meaning to watch for some time now, "Irreversible." I just watched it and it was one of the best films that I've ever seen. Much like the storyline of the film itself, I'm not sure if it would mean as much if I hadn't already seen so many other films. I read a few reviews before I saw the film and given that I watched it on a site that provides illegal streaming, most of the reviews were North American. The reviews were largely fixated on the graphic content of the film, the violence and rape, but I think that in our society we would tend to be fixated on these things, being incredulous and overwhelmed. But the violence and rape that exists in the film is what we hide in all of our films and television. It's what we're saying whenever anyone says, literally I mean, "the n word." It's all the opinion that we stow away in others behind the persons back. It's what's behind the gestures and conversation that we have with customers and family. The film is one of the most genuine and inspiring films that I've seen in awhile. For example, I recently went and saw Prometheus in theaters and not only was it trying, constantly, so hard at being thoughtful and to pack in what I call "pot philosophy," but it also felt, throughout the film, to be completely disingenuous. Even the sci-fi aspect of it was trying to be sci-fi, the thoughtful aspect of it was trying to be thoughtful, everything about it was trying to be. Most all I experience of people is disingenuous, and I hate it. I value, endlessly, true experience and interaction and what this film develops is more than I think most people in North America are able to reach. We are fixated on what we can find incredulous and spiteful, when there is so much more to what's happening.

Recorded

     The desire to be recorded is something that has become refined and specialized in the environment of our lust for personalization and our platforms and technologies that we've developed. Our desires for different ways to be recorded precedes the advent of their possibility and our insatiable categorization pulls us further and further into our desire to be recorded, enveloping how we understand the thing we record, namely our selves. I'm completely fascinated by how our actions are carried out in the pursuit of their being recorded, the majority of our experience being refined to the parameters of our ability to record. It's come to a point where the more varied and possible it is for us to be recorded, the more freedom we have in our experience. I'm also fascinated at what becomes recorded, the extent to which we record, perhaps so that we are able to experience the freedom of existing. Recording has become validation and reality. Not just broad, hype words like sex, violence, and personal information are recorded, but the intimacy of experience is becoming bound by the limits of recording. One can record and share the common, everyday sort of urinating and defecating that one does, rather than special urinating and defecating with hype and eroticism like on sites for golden showers and shock films like 2 girls 1 cup. Someone can record themselves calming placing two kittens in a plastic vacuum bag and sucking the air out, recording the kittens dying. People can feel a need to have what they experience be recorded because if it's not, then there is an anxiety, an anxiety of emptiness. Murder and waste are beginning to take place in the realm of the recorded more so than in reality. Our experience is more and more coming to take place within the realm of the recorded rather than in the realm of immanence.