Nah, considering I, upon not hearing back from the first email, decided to write the bits just in case I think I'm okay. I get one extension per module so I have to be sparing.

I have already complained at them and him, though nicely in the latter case.

He finally replied and... just bullet pointed the question for me, exactly as it was written with no extra explanation. I was asking for clarification on the points.
I am paying 6k for this! Oh my days.

This essay is about contentious films, imperfection and the importance of direct action. It's also about Basket Case 2 which, I went in expecting to hate considering I'm ambivalent about the first, and I ended up loving it, and, Freaks, which I love despite it's confused execution.

It comes in, does what it wants to do, ends. One of the things I hate in found footage is extended scenes of just "nothing" and blurry video as though that makes it more believable or real.

And obviously do not steal from artists but far as I'm concerned stealing from corporations is good.

I only say this as someone who does go to live gigs and buy merch and special editions and donate to Patreon and bandcamp and etc. My ten pounds to Spotify stretched out across hundreds of artists vs me actually buying directly from them spending double, triple that in a go.

I only do this because I do buy the music elsewhere and nothing I listen to on Spotify is anything I don't already own but in between them and YouTube and the fact CDs no longer include a disc drive it's been easier just to, you know, steal Spotify and pay artists outside of that eco system.

andreamatranga.substack.com/p/benefit-of... I wrote a thing contrasting Kitano with Tarantino's relationship with violence

I like studying and all of the processes therein! I like learning and pushing myself! I do not want to pad things out!

That was the beginning of the end probably. I enjoy learning and studying too much.

(Gary Gilmore's Eyes was one of my favourite punk songs as a teenager and it still is).

This is one of those facts that I read it, and I've read The Executioner's Song now too, and I'm just like "this can't be true," and maybe it is a little apocryphal but it's also just odd.

Here is a fun fact I found out about the Nike "Just Do It" logo: it was inspired by murderer Gary Gilmore's last words. He campaigned to be put to death, by firing squad no less, and said something to the effect of "Let's do it!" in the face of them. And then that became Nike's corporate slogan.

This essay is about contentious films, imperfection and the importance of direct action. It's also about Basket Case 2 which, I went in expecting to hate considering I'm ambivalent about the first, and I ended up loving it, and, Freaks, which I love despite it's confused execution.