Kill your dream.

Maybe not forever, but just for right now. There’s a good chance your dream is poisoning your food and tripping you when you’re not looking. Dreams are sneaky bastards that won’t be any fun if we blindly adopt them. Not that you shouldn’t ‘go for it’, it’s just that the ‘it’ is usually not IT.

I know this sounds dumb. Having a Dream is part of the American Religion. But so was having a house, going to college, and having sexuals with Angelina Jolie. Killing your dream will give you a second to actually look at it and decide if it’s for you. Are you chasing it just to chase something? Are you having fun chasing it? If you’re right on track then tallyho. Either way, I think anyone can benefit from killing their dream (or their perceived need to have one) for a minute at least.

People talk about chasing dreams. But I’d rather have a dream I can live. Human nature is to grow. When you achieve your dream of being on American Idol, then you’ll want to win, then you’ll want to punch Kelly Clarkson in the boob, then eventually you’ll get sick of all the paparazzi. What I’m saying, really, is that chasing dreams will almost always result in a life of chasing X and not knowing why you were chasing it.

It’s interesting how we all have the same dreams. I want to be famous or rich or powerful. We want to be a rock star, climb corporate ladders, be a star. Because of social pressures and other forces we’ve created a situation in which it seems everyone is going for the same thing. These dreams of fame and fortune – always skipping the work – may serve to inspire us for a limited amount of time but then they don’t. Then they turn on us and stab us in the back and retroactively destroy our childhoods and destroy our children’s childhoods. These colossals bring on regret and frustration and fear like no other.

Yoda kicks the Hulk's ass any day

Other people take solace in never being able to achieve their goal, it’s a safe thing to have. It’s just a ready-made answer for the inevitable inquiry “What do you really want? What do you dream of doing?”. We are trained to think that the only way to true happiness is to attain something that we surely can’t.

These dreams are usually cries of “I need more attention!” or “I want all the things!” or “Why aren’t you doing everything I want you to!?”. They aren’t fantasies of doing anything – just fruits of some mystical labor. Default dreams are have some serious issues:

• They’re crowded. Creativity is hard for people who are scared of it. So the standard dreams are the toughest chase and the most improbable to catch.
• They often don’t sustain drive. If it doesn’t come from you then your drive to attain it is only as great as you belief in what they think you should do.
• They’re too big. They should be big, they should be scary big. But not paralyzingly big or comfortingly big. If you aim too high you won’t shoot. Going smaller builds confidence so you can take those big shots later.

It’s better to, as Kevin Smith says, chase whimsies. In that way, you’ll understand where you’re at now. Each project or job or whatever isn’t a ‘step’ but a dream in itself. Sure, you may have that Master Dream that guides the whimsies, but it will be easier to stay satisfied on the way to your Thing.

A whimsy is essentially a micro dream that you can begin building now and see real progress. You know you can finish it but it’s going to be hard.

“I would write on the lintels of the doorpost, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because you’re able to stay in the now – you can see whimsies forming before your eyes –  and not having to keep day dreaming about being in some magical perfect place in the future you are more able to see all the badassery taking place here and now. You notice that you’re building something that you like a lot. Maybe it looks like that dream you had, maybe not. Either way, it will be a more true representation of you and thus more fulfilling. Because you’re chasing whimsies you stop feeling like you’re chasing, grasping. Whimsies bring us the gift of constant forward motion – and that consistency snowballs quickly. When you have this massive ‘some day’ hanging over your head it’s hard to do anything but sit there paralyzed and maybe draw up the perfect plan. Maybe by the 100th draft you’ll say ‘fuck it’ and hold onto a whimsy.

Self Reliance

If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises, they lose all heart. If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges, and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened, and in complaining the rest of his life. A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not ‘studying a profession,’ for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.

I couldn’t think up any sweet supernatural things to predict. I’m not good at that stuff. My future-sense does not work like the magical lot. I’m just looking at shit around me and then making assumptions about what they’ll look like later. I’m sure to make an ass out of myself, but only you believing my batshit crazy ideas will make and ass out of you. Or won’t, because maybe there isn’t anything to even do about them. Either way:

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE.

…ad infinitum…

The future is copyrighted, and loves retro street signs

1. To start out strong, I’m going to use an idea that’s not mine. There will be the most ever Black Swan Events of all time. Papa Talib define’s his Black Swans in three simple steps.:

First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to it’s possibility. Second, it carries an extreme impact (unlike the bird). Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.

9/11 was a black swan, so was Guitar Hero, and so was Hitler. Black Swans spawn from trying new things constantly. Justin Bieber came out of nowhere because of YouTube (then Usher).

if only they all came like this...

2012 is going to be a ‘fuck it’ year for a lot of people. Because even if you don’t believe that the end is neigh, you are going to be inundated by talk about it. Your brain will be so packed full of 2012 bullshit from news and ‘science’ articles and your friends talking about it that there is no way you will escape it. Even if you dismiss it all as the bullshit (most of) it is, there will be that seed in your mind of ‘well, shit, I could die this year or tomorrow, is this where I want it to happen?” So they are going to play. They are going to constantly be making and sharing and doing things that would usually not be done. Because, well, fuck it. And they are going to put all their doings on the internet and the really exciting doings are going to be spread as they are and we’ll have a Black Swan. Thinking of death tends to get our balls on the wall. More people will be getting more uncomfortable in their jobs.

2. The market is going to go down. The idea of America declining into nothingness forever and ever is becoming amazingly popular. When every asshole knows what’s going on with the economy you know something big is about to happen. And it tends to be the opposite of popular opinion. When everyone is all in on the downside, the only place to go is up. Sure, there are a lot of forces in the world that point to the decline of the American empire. And I think they have a lot of valid points. And I do have a gloomy economic forecast for the US of A. But not now, maybe some time next year.

Timing markets reliably is damn hard, Warren Buffet knows that. We do know that markets hate uncertainty. And I’m predicting a lot of uncertainty. So I think that we’ll see our little bull here to continue into 2012. But before the end of 2012 ends, when that asteroid gets near, everybody is going to cry because all their money went away again.

3. Increasingly radical politics. Ron Paul will no longer be a laughing stock. During this insane time of uncertainty people will cling to a man who (1) hasn’t changed any of his fundamental beliefs in years and (2) represents what is supposed to be the most stable document there is, the Constitution. Protests are going to intensify – in violence and in popularity. There is already a return of the activist culture in the US and around the world, but things will intensify along with everything else next year.

I guess it doesn't need to be said any better

Occupy Wall Street is a demonstration of just how pissed off everyone is. They don’t understand who to blame, they just know they’re mad because some people have money and others don’t. They don’t understand that the government they demand protect them is the same one used by billionaires to bend them over. And we won’t ever have a mass understanding, we’ll just have mass anger. Because we get angry at things we see on TV, the most terrible collection of information to act on ever.

Their in bed making babies, hideous little shits

4. Psychedelics are going to become more widely used and accepted. The last couple years has brought a huge amount of research regarding psilocybin. There is a lot of evidence of the clinical uses of psychedelics to help with depression and anxiety.

Weed is being legalized – or at least decriminalized – around the country at an increasing rate. It’s widely celebrated for it’s medical uses and there aren’t many left that don’t see it’s prohibition as more ridiculous than that of alcohol. Weed opens up minds. When people realize that the taboo around marijuana has been completely irrational there will be an awakening to the possibility of ‘maybe this fungi won’t bring us all to hell’.

Also, there are millions of baby boomers retiring. Besides needing hip replacements, they need meaning in their lives. So they are going to go to therapy and they are going to meditate and do more yoga and read the Bible … and then they are going to remember back to when they were growing up and have hippie nostalgia. And then they are going to find a magical cow patty.

Silicon Valley badasses pour into Burning Man every year

Burning Man and other Transformational Festivals  are growing in popularity. These things are essentially hippie revivals. The pictures are wild.

5. There will be a lot of dream chasing. The world is going to fucking end, what do you do!? You go do that thing you’ve always wanted to. Or buy that thing that you can’t really afford but shit, it’s the one thing that would make life worth living. Again, it doesn’t really matter that most people don’t care about the 2012 theories and fewer believe them. There are enough people that do that it will constantly be in people’s psyches. Enough talk about any idea and you inevitably start to consider it. “Well, even if the world isn’t going to end, my life could, so why the fuck am I not doing the thing I enjoy?”

I don’t think it’s going to be a majority, but a noticeable minority. And maybe chasing isn’t the best option.

maybe this guy doesn't have a choice anymore...

6. There will be less people going to college because well, why go when you can chase your dreams? Of course this is already happening.

7. Increased crime – violent and otherwise. I’m not saying all crime is bad. The government is the true criminal in most cases. When people say ‘fuck it’, they don’t all have dreams to live out. Maybe they try drugs they’ve always wanted to, maybe the kill that guy who has always pissed them off, maybe the steal things, they commit fraud, they panic. When people panic shit gets crazy. They do weird things. All their emotional baggage is front and center and they can’t deal with it. So the blow up in weird ways.

selling raw milk, which is the only way to get many of the best milkish nutrients, is a criminal act

8. There’s going to be a mass suicide. And then a bunch of sad beings won’t be with us anymore. I wonder if they’ll follow tradition?

death has never been so palatable

9. Money is going to pour into space travel industries. If a couple billionaires can live out the rest of their lives on a space station when the giant asteroid comes, then they’ll do it.

I admit that I have no reason for saying this other than wanting to think of this:

10. The doom’n’gloom industry is going to boom. Emergency underground living areas are going to continue to get more takers. Emergency rations are going to sell like they’ve never sold before

People freak out and need to believe somebody

People need answers to important questions like, “HOW AM I GOING TO SURVIVE THE END OF THE WORLD!?” “PLEASE TELL ME WHAT TO DO, I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO THINK RIGHT NOW”. Most importantly, “FIRST THE ECONOMY APOCALYPSE AND NOW THE WORLD!? WHAT DO I DO TO STOP MYSELF FROM DRINKING MR CLEAN!?”

11. Sex industries are going to boom. The world’s ending, you only got one chance to live out that fantasy with 8-sided dildo and a pterodactyl costume.

12. Religiosity is going to boom. GOD SAVE ME JESUS CHRIST ALLAH JEHOVA OBAMA SOMEONE FUCKING MAKE ME GO TO HEAVEN MAKE IT BE OKAY. Anytime uncertainty spikes, so does our craving for certainty. Maybe people will look farther east than usual, maybe they’ll look to shamanism, or maybe they’ll adopt Christianity in a more intense way. Maybe they’ll make it a part of themselves, like David Blaine did:

and you thought his magic was just trickery...

This search for religiosity will extend outside of religions into other things too. Again, when we’re smacked in the face with uncertainty we just grasp more desperately for it. I think this will bring even more polarized views. People will hold on to their beliefs for dear life. We already see this in a lot of areas, especially politics, but I think it’ll get worse.

13. Gold and silver prices will continue their rise. In uncertain times people run to what they consider safe. For thousands of years, gold and silver have been the go-to guys for funny fiscal business.

The future is a slipper son of a gun. I don’t know what’s going to happen. A lot of what I said is just “this is what is happening and I think it will keep happening in a bigger way”. It would be interesting to look at stuff that happened pre-Y2K and compare. I remember a lot of worry and not a lot of fans getting shit-hit. That’s what’s going to happen next year for the most part. Of course, intense worry brings it’s own changes.

I think we’re going to be just fine. But maybe not. Just in case, I want you to know…

I love you. <3

I can’t work
There’s too many wars over seas
There’s too much creative juice in me to focus in on that
So I’ll pace around, I’ll chat with your answering machine
As my thoughts drift into the unclean
I have to take a bath
You know, I know, they don’t know anything about you and me and all our kind 
Reasonless, meaningless superiority 
Slaughtered symphonies in our mind 
This college cattle call 
Ships off a hundred herds of young and wealthy work-horse mules
The teachers labeled all the dreamers fools 
“You’re not their fucking tool!” 
You and me can set them free together 
With one hand on each others,
And the other on our weaponry,
Yeah
You and me can set them free together
All I need is your love
And a revolution.
And you,
They fit inside of a box
They tie it with their proficient knots,
To keep you in the dark
They’re scared of your eyes ’cause they radiate blue
Never ever stop dreamin’ the way you do
The future holds a fuck you for them all
One day someday,
I’ll make it out of this
High school hell hole
Fly away
Don’t waste time being mad at everything,
Freedom’s only a breath away
Caps will fly up
Signal the rifleman
Drop your gown and jet right out
The skies engulfed in our triumphant shouts
Yeah shout it, shout it out
You and me can set them free together
With one hand on each others and the other on our weaponry yeah
You and me can set them free together
All I need is your love
Let’s make love on top of broken blackboards
I’ll slide the colored chalk around your every curve
Our bodies warm and doused in perspiration
I’ll dry your tears 
With torn up college applications 
Torn up college applications 
You and me can set them free together 
With one hand on each others and the other on our weaponry
You and me can set them free together 
All I need is your love 
And a revolution 

The word “networking” just sounds dirty to me. I picture a bunch of people in a room figuring out ways to best exploit those they bump into. Any time I’m at an event like that it’s difficult to trust the sincerity of those I meet. There’s no human connection when you know people are BSing BSers.

My naive idea is that you should just make friends. Connect with people you like and respect. Recognizing their talents and helping people leverage them is just part of that friendship.

[Edit: Not sure if this was clear - I'm planning on leaving the StartupBus with lots of new friends.]

My father wants me to give him a lesson in social networking online. He wants to use these magical platforms for business. So here’s my thinkings in brief:

Dear Father Dana,

There’s a lot of material out there on “harnessing the power of social media to drive business!” but most of it isn’t repeatable and frankly just common sense or dumb. I think the most important things are:

• Be interesting
• Be useful
• Be consistent
• Be authentic

Authenticity being the most important. If you don’t make a human connection with people then you lose.

By the way, you can disprove everything I just said if you look. There’s no ‘right’ way. Just try different things. Just Google “using social media for business” for a million opinions.

So, father, it turns out I have jack-shit to tell you about social media other than play with it. But here’s some quick descriptions:

• Twitter is a “micro-blogging” platform that all businesses are adopting, and nearly as many are failing miserably. You can use 140 characters to say what you want. It’s great for PR, connecting with people that would be difficult to reach otherwise, and as a filtered news feed. If you use this to only talk about your business it won’t be worth anything to you (unless that’s your audience…).
• Tumblr is set up just like Twitter but it’s more of a full-feature blogging platform.
• WordPress is a full feature blogging platform that’s more easily expandable than Tumblr.
• Facebook is the broadest social network, you need to have a presence there. Law of authenticity applies, but it’s more acceptable to chat about your business because people are following you for that. That’s assuming you’ve made a page for your business anyway.
• MySpace would be great if it didn’t suck. I wouldn’t put any time there unless you care about music.
• YouTube is king for video that you care about sharing.
• Viddler is more customizable, more specifically for brands. Gary Vaynerchuk uses that, or used to anyway.
• Vimeo is more for people who care about higher quality vids.
• LinkedIn is that thing everyone has but nobody uses. It’s coming up in the world though.

That’s my way-oversimplified guide. You need to spend time exploring and observing how things work in each place you want to be involved in. What kind of things do people share? Have you made any sort of meaningful connection with a person there?

I think picking one blogging platform as a base then using Twitter and Facebook to reach out to new people is a good strategy.

Your loving son,

Kyle
PS: see you Friday!

Ken Robinson’s ideas are the kind that make me ashamed for not assuming. The gist of the talk is that (1) you need to be okay with being wrong to innovate and (2) intelligence is diverse, dynamic, and distinct.

Robinson provides context to create an interesting perspective when looking at our system of education. It was created in it’s current form around the time of the industrial revolution and to serve that revolution. This means that the most ‘useful’ subjects are given priority and that academic ability is the only form of intelligence we recognize in most people.

There’s a problem with our definition of ‘useful’ now. We don’t need as many people who are willing to follow directions perfectly now. Math and science are important, but creativity trumps them every time. Nowadays people are less likely to be rewarded for being a good computer programmer than they are to have a creative idea. More now than ever, the people who win are those who can solve problems.

The thing about problem solving and creative thinking is that it requires that you be wrong often enough to come to a solution. We go through school learning that mistakes, not knowing, and being wrong in general is unacceptable. We’re tested to measure how well we can remember what they told us and regurgitate it in a specific way. If you don’t do well, if you can’t concentrate on exactly what want you to, in the way they want you to, then process it in their specified way, you’re not intelligent. You get thrown on a medication so you can win their game. You may have been a brilliant artist or a hyperactive, manic-depressive serial entrepreneur, but now you’re focused on long division. And that’s worth something, right?

It’s widely recognized that there are serious problems with our system of education and there’s a lot of great talk about how to fix it. What I don’t understand is why so many parents and kids realize this and still submit to themselves to it. It’s tough to get around the system in place up until high school graduation. Then there is a question to be asked, one that I don’t think is considered a legitimate question often enough, “should I go to college, and should I do it now?”.

Champ-Gramp

People often comment how ‘material’ others are. Usually the commenter has less than the material person and usually I sense a bit of jealousy. Also, the person doing the pointing is wearing a piece of clothing with a logo, a logo that they paid extra for. We’re all ‘material’, just some more than others.

I once saw an interview with Warren Buffett where he said that he only spends on things that improve his quality of life. I’ve heard that he lives in the same house he got married in years ago and he wears some of the cheaper suits around. He uses a marquis jet service, not to impress but because it makes his life a bit better. Buffett is the least ‘material’ person I know (actually, my grandpa has a similar philosophy on spending).

I think that consumption is uncomfortable for a couple of reasons: (1) excess spending puts us in an economically uncomfortable position and (2) we don’t like to think about why we consume the things we do.

If Americans (and their government) weren’t so caught up with the idea that you have to spend money to get happiness, a lot less people would be in the uncomfortable position they find themselves in now. Mortgages and credit in general stuck a lot of people is a massive pickle (yes, a pickle). We’re raised from a young age that in order to have fun we need to have the new X or Y and that our Z just won’t cut it anymore. We are under huge pressure to upgrade our cars, homes, TVs, and the all important doodad.

I think the second reason actually causes the first. It also causes a lot of dissatisfaction. We use consumption as a stand-in for talking or thinking through things (shopping therapy), supplement confidence, and procrastination (“shit, I can’t start until I get X”). The thing that sucks is that the smile-spike created by consumption is fleeting. When we watch a movie or TV just because it’s on and not because we want to we’re avoiding something else. We don’t like to think about the fact that consumption doesn’t satisfy; because if we did, we would have to face the fact that you can never be satisfied. If you’re sad now because of the shit you don’t have, you’re going to be really confused when you get all those shits and still aren’t satisfied.

We often use consumption as  a way to avoid production. “I got nothing I need to do today, here I come (mindless TV show)/mall.” I spend an absurd amount of time consuming media online – articles, movies, podcasts, everything. If I spent even 20% of that time focused on producing things I’m interested in I would have a much better blog and more videos. I bet my ideas and writing would also be way beyond what you’re reading now.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi shows in his book Flow that our most fulfilling activities in life are creative: either producing or getting better at something (anything). He thinks that if we would let ourselves focus on practice a skill or make something we’d … well we’d just be better in general.

I’m not advocating minimalism, what I’m saying is that you shouldn’t buy out of fear. Fear of missing out, fear of losing status, fear of producing. However, I do think we would all be much better off if we used Grandpa Buffett’s rule when buying: if it doesn’t increase the quality of your life then don’t get it.

Asking for advice from someone may be the best way of revealing their regrets. You have no idea how many married men have told me, “Get with as many chicks in college as you possibly can.” I’m not saying it’s bad advice, but they sure as hell aren’t spreading their seed (hopefully…). Advice should only be taken as a positive ‘do this!’ if you can see evidence of that advice being used in the other person’s life.

Then there’s the hypocritical advice. A fatass may be giving you dieting advice or a virgin may be giving you girl advice. Just because they can’t follow their own advice doesn’t make it bad. In fact, a fat man may have better dieting information than a guy in shape because he has more incentive to research diets.

Chances are a guy who’s ripped will give you better workout advice than a fatty and that a billionaire businessman will have better business sense than a franchise owner, but you should still think about what they tell you. The point is that just  someone’s suckness or awesomeness doesn’t dictate the quality of advice they can bestow upon you.

There’s way too much greatness to talk about. This last week of movies and friends has been a compact dose of awesome.

Prologue

A couple months back I was in South Carolina shooting a short film with Bryan King and the rest of the Rock, Paper, Scissors crew. Bryan mentioned that he and Zach were going to Sundance, I got all excited and immediately booked my flight. The big reason I wanted to go is to see Kevin Smith’s new movie, Red State. I’ve become a huge fan of Smith in the last several months because of his podcasts and his twitter feed so I wanted to see him more than his movie.

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) Red State was only going to play at Sundance two times, and they were all sold out of tickets. A couple weeks ago Bryan decided he was going to get me into Red State and launched a twitter campaign to do so. After one reply Smith stopped responding. Then two days later Smith started an auction for two tickets, two rides on the SMod bus, and two entries to the Red State after party. Long story short, Bryan and I won the bidding with a clean $1000 – I paid $300 with Bryan picking up a whopping $700. That sounds like a shitton of dough, and it is, but I can’t think of a better way I would have rather spent it…

Bear Hugging Kevin Smith into History

The first thing I did in Park City was the Red State experience. Partly because there were only two screenings for Red State and partly because of the buzz Smith has been drumming up around the movie, shit was crazy. The good people at GodHatesFags.com protested the movie (it deals with Christian fundamentalism) so Smith decided to counter. After walking through that whole deal it was time to see Red State.

The movie didn’t blow me away (more details below) but everything surrounding it did. I got to see my favorite talker talk, awesome. But after the (badass) credits rolled, he did something awesomeR. As he announced before the premier, he wanted to auction the movie off after the first public showing. He did, but he auctioned it to himself for $20. He spent about half an hour talking about how broken the studio system is and how he wanted to sell his movie himself. If you have any interest in film business you need to watch the talk. You can get all the details here.

After that madness, we rode on the SMod bus to the house they were all staying in. After a bit of a talk, Smith gave Bryan and me hugs. There was great conversation and great people. The coolest part of this for me was seeing the dynamics of the Kevin Smith crew. He has created an environment where he is always surrounded and supported by friends. He has been able to hire his friends so he’s working with friends. That was inspiring, to see a bunch of friends all hanging out together while getting real shit done. That’s the kind of environment that I want to create.

From the house we headed to the Red State after party. Apparently there were a whole bunch of celebrities, but I couldn’t really think of anything besides that work/life situation Smith has created.

The Movies…

Red State wasn’t as much a horror as a drama. It’s looks and feel is totally different than anything Smith has done before, but his dialogue screams his name. The movie had a $4 million budget but it felt much bigger. Melissa Leo and John Goodman are amazing… Michael Parks is good too.

Knuckle is a documentary about travelling Irish families who film videos calling other families pussies then fighting about it. They aren’t very good at fighting, and are incestuous. I slept (and snored) through about 45 minutes. Irish bare-knuckle boxing was somehow made boring.

Perfect Sense was great. Cerebral and beautiful. Also, Eva Green’s breasts get an amazing amount of screen time. You have to accept a lot of what my buddy would call ‘silliness’, but it wasn’t hard for me.

Incendies was one of the two foreign films I saw that have been nominated for an Oscar. It was also the longest-feeling movie at the festival. I almost had to walk out of the theater I was so intensely bored. That being said, it was a beautifully made, technically great movie.

Troll Hunter was satirically hilarious, and awesome. They were faithful to troll lore… such a fun movie.

Sound Of My Voice was fantastic. They fuck with your head and don’t answer a lot of questions. The filmmakers are fresh out of film school and excited, really cool to see their success.

In A Better Place was the good international Oscar nominee. The father-son moment brought me to the brink of tears. The kid actors (all of the actors, really) gave some of the best performances I saw at the festival.

Take Shelter was a powerful look at someone going crazy and how it effects his work and family life. Probably the most suspenseful movie I saw.

Life In A Day was that YouTube project. Beautifully put together, definitely worth seeing.

Uncle Kent was ultra low budget, mildly funny then boring. Seemed like the dude just thought he was being ballsy talking about sex in different ways.

Bellflower AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME love story. This movie is ART

Like, Crazy was great love story that was all improvised. I wasn’t crazy about it at first but it’s been growing on me.

Submarine was beautifully shot and written. Another movie you look at and think ‘art’… or I did anyway.