Treeline

I think the most direct yet seemingly ignored damage the internet is doing is this ability to connect. Everything that ever existed, anyone any place any time. Incredibly brilliant goes without saying. But I think people are turning weird... We can read news from all over the world from any "ordinary" person like ourselves. And I think it's great to finally see the world as it really is, so directly. But should we know everything as it is, all the way round this rather big planet we live on? It's a lot to cope with and it's clearly blowing a lot of our minds! Noone really knows who they are anymore and everyone's stressed and lost now. We see and hear so much, it's just a chaotic mess for us to pick our way through. I feel we're losing a lot of our ability to have integrity of any sort in a world SO well connected. We're not all here to carry the world on our shoulders and we risk missing out on changing our immediate surroundings if we're too interested in news elsewhere. I think self discipline is the key but I don't know if anyone is really up to that the way things are going. Of course the older generations have that, but I don't think us lot growing up IN to this will be the same. We're not going to ask our children how to use new technology. We're in the loop so much that it'll just be part of us we'll never grow old in the same way. Ouch.

Midnight Cowboy. Love it half because to the brilliant harmonica tune without which it wouldn't be the same. Powerful bit where the coin operated TV in Joe's hotel room runs out of money during footage of a dog being forced in to a Toupée and bikini. Very hopeless film with hopelessly emotional harmonica music..don't listen to it if you want to have an efficient day, DO listen if you want to feed of melancholia all day long! Spirited away cause it's stunning "Naked", which I've only seen once but a very good gloomy weary film. Shows a lot of what is in all of us..like when we have our gloomy deep days, and you forget/deny that for everyone else it could be a perfectly bright one, entirely out of character with how you feel. Like world weariness of people around you is out of phase. The film sort of has a bit of that, a sort of waking up from the dream in to the sharp, hard working reality of normal people. Or that's all bullshit. But what I took from it was that very contrast Not everything is so serious but I prefer to take light films as they come, on the moment. Think the serious ones sink in more and are worth discussing! It's enjoyable seeing how people differ from lists like this! Film lists are far more interesting than favorite music lists, much more revealing since you pretty much have to concentrate on a film (unless you're the person everyone gets irritated by who never pays attention and wants to chat over them)

Lush were such a beautiful band, shoegaze all ways gets me through...