The Philosopher Just Doesn't Get The Point

I've sat and witnessed a projection.
In this, I have thought and felt dissection (these negatives the world has been dealt!)
and an infection (the negatives I have processed and felt)

This is Water - A commencement speech by writer David Foster Wallace

Profound is a word that is often thrown around in the form of condescending sarcasm, but make not mistake, when I state that this video is a profoundly beautiful message, I truly mean it, for this video articulates the importance of educating one’s self, which is, in essence of David Foster Wallace, to have an awareness to the vast possibilities of life, be it the personal value of a job that grinds our gears and halts our aspirations or the often made mistake of conveniently misjudging someone to fulfill ourselves in a moment of boredom on a supermarket line. This is the kind of thinking that is miserable for a society and corrosive to humanity. The next time your mind is quick to evaluate someone’s life based on maybe one, two, lets say even ten, observations, just remember all those times you felt misinterpreted and how awful and negative that feeling was to exist outside you and what it did inside you.

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I really love the second to last one.

Soderbergh, Payne, Polanski and the Coens Lead 2013 Cannes Film Festival Lineup | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | Indiewire

No fears lie in anticipation to Cannes.

4 weeks ago

Unarguably relevant opening words. Please, at least, listen to the first minute.

Savages - “Shut Up”

Ode

Authentic ripped jeans
Any dirty old shirt
Half a pack in my pocket
Cheap shit in my stomach
And a group of nobodies
Hating the world together
While The Replacements
Song “Unsatisfied” plays.

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. [laughs] Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like [coughs] tears in rain. Time to die.” - Blade Runner

In my opinion, one of the best quotes uttered in a film, and it was improvised. 

Another rap from yesteryear

Walking Into the Talk

Laptop sex gets me the best

L.E.D. lights to confess the intimates

Nobody listens, though

Why would they listen, though?

All are stuck in their singular globe

Lobes I can’t get past if I tried to

Every which way is a “what to do?”

But how the hell am I supposed to know what truth is

If no one excuses their uses

Won’t step out of their box, talk my style of talk

I’ll step in yours and walk your talk?

I’m perceptive, adaptive

A lab rat trained to collab. with

But only once I’ve escaped this

Your face, your words

How inscrutable your worth is to absurd

Absurd is the universe

Just give it a shot

Get in my hearse

We’ll go around the block

We’ll talk in a box

Two sides collaborating on the faux pas

Nothing’s foolproof, everything’s simply my unlock

But it’s not a crock

Just rooms upon rooms with locks within locks.

Embracing unique turns

A world so alike, I have to adjourn to stop its last

The other side’s allure would halt no returns if you’d move fast

‘cause the mind fears what’s not foreseeable in its prism of glass

Listen, I’m not preachin’

I’m just glistening the stars intuition.

Since I was a youngin’

I was always reachin’

For the cookie, for the jar

Always misbehaving, larkin’ from afar  

Grew to hate a place that wouldn’t except my taste

Grew to create a wall of insurmountable taste

As if it was the end all to what is and isn’t great

So many walls, Waters couldn’t relate

After a while, knew this wasn’t fate

So what I am is some product with some purpose

What I deserve comes from the worst of it

Without it, why would the story let the hero flourish?

Every hero needs to see his finish before he can begin to win in this

Life, to phrase quickly, is a boulder teeter-totterin’

Always weighing against your instinct to live in

The unknown, to phrase, is one man’s fear

Recorded and dated to make you just like Lear

Read that story and explain the moral to yourself

Glance, time to time, at your shelf.

A rap from yesteryear

A Reminder (A Killing To Be Had)

All-types dude,

Weezy-pipe screw

Obscurity-fix lube

That’s two lines

Me and you

Rue, glamorous loo, tight-fit shoe

Drag-queen field trip to the zoo

All-out-of-drugs kind of school

Four lines for being cool

When with homies, I’m slowing blue

Baby girl, I miss you

Mostly the parts overdue

What is you, essentially?

I’m pretending to be

A mailman lazily

Triying harder, farther, across the sea

Waiting be two dead bees

By two dandelion trees

Sneezed, realized I had allergies

Now rowing a chu-chu canoe

Made a scene: ate some character fruit

Then started using words like albeit, too

Cigarettes for stress

Evolving into Hagrid’s Dragon’s breath

Unpredictable allusion, brainies think I’m death

But every word takes, like, a second

So I’m the best

One is my address

And if you’re hate is calculated

And it is, cause I’m the dressing to all lessons

Start undressing my visage

I’m a blessing, livin’ in the Bliss Age

What’s danglin’ is thoughts caged

Grandfather-Clock pendulum rage

And if you don’t know my stage

That’s my cock docking into your brain

Oversexed and underpaid

Life’s a pain

But this thing is a WoW raid

The soul’s way of feeling shame and getting laid

Narcissism assignations, character assassination

Trite-ass club members stationed

Somewhere where complaining is blaming-too-much-on-the-raining

But I’m sunshine with baby-bearded face

Darkness a skirt to my beer-handled waist

Like white people to race

Like black people to face

I guess I’m cutie who’s not in racist places

Moving too much, no time for stasis

Changes or always adding inches to my danglin’

Language is cool, but meaning is on people

Learned that in school

Streets, pools, wheat, rules, boring, dead-beat stool

Defintions, hoes, you Timbukto.

Is that frat-guy stew?

You know, not jungle punch, dude

Motives and what make you cool

Being a boss while nancy polishes my stool

Isn’t there a rumor tough guys are gay?

Too much play led to spankings every day

And a confliction affliction

Which affliction shirt to wear to The Fray?

My clothes is black and other blands

I choose based on what’s closet to my hand

Don’t overthink it is always the sand to my hourglass

Because I took track to run behind asses

Not to prove to daddy mine wasn’t storage for shaft kisses

I’ve lapsed this lapping listlessness I’m mentioning

There won’t be blood

Fiending is porcupine-shoe-brush bling

A rude string of events creating a new brood

Don’t make me a target or I’ll start misbehaving

Kind of kids who eat enough food

To purge on the bottom of your shoes

Later, get sticklered by the newer

Because I’m the younger, the fewer

I’m going to lunge to her

Because I want to show her

That what I got is a slow shower

Really just suffocating skin down in the lower

Go for less than thirty

Don’t really want to know her.

But I’m blessed, like I said

When I give the dirty

She’ll be confessing to all her friends

A beacon in the land of the pretends

‘Cause there’s a lot more packing

To get the brain wracking.

Every night i’m packing

It’s night of the living dead

Listen, you can hear the wetness drippin’ from my bed

Plights the commoner faces when his favorite color is red.

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James Blake’s “Overgrown.”

Another evocative addition to Nabil’s small, but strong, catalogue of music videos.

Sections of Frank-Ocean life collage together to form “Lost’s” music video.

My new mantra:

“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The Rape” by Rene Magritte.

“The Rape” by Rene Magritte.

a-lovely-afterthought:

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STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WATCH THIS.

craziness

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