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I think I found this a few years ago on reddit, and gosh what a story. Seriously good writing from a talented guy. Def been tryna get into his Milestone stuff.
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Apparently he tweeted then deleted the below:
When people say ‘surreal’ they mean ‘real’, it’s just most of your life is not very real, just repetition and routine. I went to his house and I met him. Only musician I’d ever met was one of my best friends, Billy Joe Shaver, and I told Dylan and he laughed and said he loved Billy Joe. Then he left and came back with an old vinyl of ‘Honky Tonk Heroes’ and put it on and we listened to it, all the way through, and didn’t talk. Then he talked to me at length. At length.
When Bob Dylan speaks, his words seem chosen long ago, his sentences are spare, and he looks right at you, and his countenance is stone. He spoke to me for many hours over two days. There was no alcohol or drugs consumed. He was interested only in writing. I remember wishing I had secretly recorded him, and I remember trying as hard as I could to remember every word he said. I remember he talked over and over about verbs and about ‘verbifying’, how anything could be ‘verbified’. He asked me my favorite book of the Bible and I said Job, and he said his favorite was Ecclesiastes. He then told me that the book of Job I was familiar with was not the original, and then he told me the original.
I began to notice his speech was naturally rich with imagery, and that listening to him had a mesmerizing effect. I noticed when looking at his face while listening to his words that it was like looking at an impressionistic painting. I cannot repeat any of what I heard that evening, but he invited me to stay the night and we ate dinner in silence. A girl cooked a beef stew and there were three other men, who I later learned were musicians. When Bob Dylan retired for the evening, I spoke freely with the three men. They took me to a recording studio in a guest house and I listened to them play. I asked them for their favorite Dylan stories. They told me, and the night happened and i didn’t sleep. I was very unknown at the time and asked why Bob Dylan had summoned me for this visit. One of the men told me.
The next morning, when Dylan reappeared, the big house seemed full again. He told me he wanted me to meet someone. He took me to the guard shack and I met the guard and Dylan told the old man to tell me ‘the story’. He did and it was very funny. While the old man was telling his funny story, Bob Dylan kept looking right at me and he was laughing hard and I was too. It was very funny. We went back to the house and Dylan poured two cups of black coffee and we each drank coffee. And that is when Bob Dylan began speaking about being a writer.
He said most ‘writers’ were what he called ‘stenographers’. He would put a record on his player and have me listen to it. He would have me silently read a passage from a classic book. Then Bob Dylan would explain why this was not writing, why it was stenography. One piece of fiction he had me read was one of my favorites. I saw that I had been wrong about one of my favorite pieces of fiction. Bob Dylan showed me how I had been deceived. I told him that I understood, but I did not, and I lied to Bob Dylan.
A week later, I understood, and phoned him and explained and he laughed. I don’t want to say what Bob Dylan said to me but one thing that he gave me permission to tell my friends was, ‘Don’t be fooled by typists.'”
Sep 28, 2024
About 20 years ago the guy from Mount Eerie and the Microphones used to make these weird little comics and I’ve never forgotten them. The Dog Trouble one has always been my favorite but every McDonalds run I’ve ever made triggers the medium pepsi neuron.
Jun 21, 2025
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wanted to know if anybody felt the same way as me. as i’ve learned more about filmmaking, mostly through youtube and reel scrolling (as is traditional), i have in turn become more and more fascinated by color grading. watching a favorite movie and noticing how the hues vibrate, playing around on lightroom w/ stills, and sharing all of this with friends. i actually liked being bombarded with those “the reason your footage doesn’t look cinematic is because you don’t know how to use davinci/err ever heard of teal and orange/my new favorite LUT pack changed everything i am now actually wong kar wai” reels. with this new movement to tickle that saturation slide, i have been noticing the heavier color grading in more recent movies, especially those put out by A24, and it’s starting to feel off. i’m aware that disenchantment is at least partially because of my own overconsumption and resultant annoyance with instagram content, but i was wondering if anyone else has felt the same way. something about the colors in movies like Sing Sing and Past Lives just feels kinda unnatural, like it sets off that same thing mentally for me that AI content does- a buzzer that says “this is weird, and maybe not real.” idk, i know this comes across like an uneducated, nagging rant, but what do yall think? is it the digital, incredibly crisp cinematography? is it my #1 opp the ARRI Alexa line? is it lighting trends, instead? am i going crazy? overall, is coloring just getting to be a bit to much in artsy/indie cinema of the past few years? i apologize for the poor writing, hope u can comprehend what im tryna articulate.
May 12, 2025
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recently watched “Warfare” directed by Mendoza and Garland. first hearing abt it, i had a similarly appalled reaction to most people on film-social media; not to mention, i’m already not the biggest A24 fan, though i groove w a lot of their splish. i decided i wanted to come to my own conclusion, here it is!!!: idrk. it obviously aims to do no more than portray exactly what mendoza remembers, but every story lives in context. it feels cheap, in a sense, to simply say that you can only speak purely based on what you’ve seen. it kinda lobs the civilian perspective every once-in-a-while, and i’m sure the directors actually want the audience to question the actions of the soldiers. im on the fence, cuz there’s obviously enough to come to your own conclusion, but does the movie have the complexity and forethought to deserve credit for the audience’s ponderings? needa learn more. thoughts?
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