always infuriating

to him was that if there was one thing this guy had a firm handle on, it was his own mortality.

Short idea: The Article

you are a love of my life, he says. only later does she reflect he said "a"

Movie idea: House Swap

Country to NYC and vice versa - parallel stories, complications, converge at end

Mediocrity

When one habitually goes against one's heart of admiration to destroy
it and is left directionless, chasing after any least effulgence of
praise, like an addict. And the defense of this behavior is to tout
onesself a social animal simply alive and responsive to that
imperative. The social being and the ideal lover needn't compete to
annihilate; in the most complete person they combine.

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Movie: Scam

A guy who tries to fall for as many scams on the internet as he can, one after the other, with the goal of trying to bankrupt himself as soon as possible.

Movie: Troubled Water

Norwegian film. Ok, so it's a various obvious construct for high melodrama. It rounds itself out in a very anticipated catharsis. Yet still very moved by it. Reminds me of that script I ground myself down trying to make work, when I was so low all those years ago, about the kid drowning in the swimming pool unable to be saved by his older sibling because parents locked in him the bedroom, playing out to Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater". I really wanted high tragedy. Opted instead for Park Tragedy, a strange, ironic, dislocated tragedy as subplot to the tragicomedy of human relations, an experiment that may have worked better if some of the acting had shored up better. That was 17 years ago... NYC can be an oblivion machine... now where am I. praising films I should have long ago done as well or better at.

film idea: the signature

close-ups under glass of people's signatures. whisper down the lane aesthetic. how is it they devolve. when in one's development is the apogee?