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i'm never on youtube, but today i was and i randomly clicked on this movie by a creator i know for his shorter sketches, Joel Haver. the movie is not really my thing— the acting is not very good and the script takes unnecessary turns at certain points, but it is definitely a new style of screenwriting that I haven't really seen.
but that's all besides the point because the first two minutes are amazing and I think really a simple and beautiful way to talk about falling in love. i wish the sound mixing was better but it still i think strikes a chord.
Oct 1, 2024
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Mike Mills' film Beginners is actually what made me start my Substack. After the credits rolled and the screen went black, I kept walking around, talking to friends and family, unable to shut up about it. I had to keep grinding down the topic of love, how bad people are at it, and how childlike we are in it, over and over again. Then, while watching Fire of Love, I realized Miranda July (recent author of All Fours and another current obsession of mine) was narrating it. Looking at her Wikipedia page I realized that the two of them are MARRIED. They have the most beautiful photo together, young and in love and in bed. When I look at it I try to imagine if they, like me in all my relationships, were also bad at loving and being loved in the beginning.
Sep 18, 2024
YouTube randomly recommended me this delightful short film that broke my heart and it deserves more views!
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Rewatched this on Valentine’s Day when I was feeling down and it made me giggle for the first time in weeks.
this movie is inexplicably human and to an extent everything we are told we are not supposed to do — waste away a day and fall in love with a stranger. In the end, the movie is about giving in — to ourselves, to our deepest desires no matter how impractical.
Feb 18, 2025
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such a hauntingly beautiful record — will forever be associated with big life changes and with fall
Sep 30, 2024
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hi there! funnily enough I also go to school for songwriting (kinda, I'm a music production major but I'm in songwriting class with all of the songwriting majors and have been writing for a long time as well). if there was one text I'd recommend for working on your songwriting and lyric building process it'd be the exercises in the book "How to Write One Song" by Jeff Tweedy. he basically just shows you how to jumble up your current way of thinking about writing and finding new ways to put words together that you never thought you could do.
P.S. your line about wanting to creating lyrics that move people is very relatable and I understand that want very much and know you probably already are moving people and that as much as we want to be able to write like our heroes as soon as possible, our own just as powerful sound will come eventually with slow and hard work. I'm sure you know this but I thought I would say.
feel free to message me if you'd like to talk songwriting more—happy writing!
Oct 1, 2024
if you’ve never explored Neil Young further than his mega hit “Harvest Moon,” I implore you to give his record “After the Gold Rush“ a listen. the wistful, floaty vocals and eternally resonant messages of love, loss, and heartbreak in this album make it seem so very timeless in a way that not only captures this autumn season we’re now entering(happy october!), but also give pangs of nostalgia in a not quite traceable way.
Oct 1, 2024