I loved this #film, Perfect Days, depicting the especially ordinary Hirayama as he cleans Tokyo's extraordinary public toilets by day, and reads classic Western #literature by night. He also listens to #casettes and takes aimless photos of tree canopies.
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/movie/perfect-days/2479790147928
The film inspired me to up-notch my appreciation of ordinariness, and caused me to wonder why I am so obsessed with achieving great things.
Have you seen it?
Great film! Saw it at the cinema back on... (checks Letterboxd) ... 7 April 2024, and gave it four out of five stars at the time, which thinking about it now sounds about right. 👍
Didn't realise it was on SBS On Demand; just bookmarked for a rewatch - thanks! 🙏
You're likewise welcome! I've only been on there a couple of years, but try to log everything, if I remember.
Otherwise I'm not too active there; probably write a review for maybe 1 in 20 films, and alternate between too-long anecdotes that sometimes only tangentially involve the film, and one-line throwaways cos sometimes I can't help myself. 😉
I keep meaning to sign up to Bookwyrm, cos Goodreads is basically evil (I only ever joined there to post reviews of a couple of friends' books) so thanks for that reminder too, heh!
And yes exactly. What else indeed? Which the whole LLM/slop machine approach to "writing" misses completely, IMHO. All (shitty) result, no actual process. Pointless and soulless. 🤷♂️
@imalcolm 100%, writing *is* already technology, a process. I remain optimistic that soulful writing is a uniquely human talent, so I'm not worried about the Cambrian slop explosion, which, if anything, encourages me to knuckle-down on honing my craft and critical thinking.
I went nuts on Library Thing when it came out, trawling my memory for all the books I had read and logging them like badges only I would see. The Open Library is another similar platform, but Bookwyrm federates.
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Ian Malcolm