Bodhi 心Mar 26

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?

#photography #WimWenders

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Show threadIan Malcolm6d ago

@bodhipaine

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! 🙏

Show threadBodhi 心6d ago
@imalcolm You're welcome ~ thanks for confirming the name of Letterboxd, which I was trying to remember so I could log Perfect Days and look up some other Wenders films.
Show threadIan Malcolm6d ago

@bodhipaine

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. 😉

Show threadBodhi 心6d ago
@imalcolm I do the same with sites like Bookwyrm! I treat these platforms as playgrounds for parsing half-baked ideas because expressing them somewhere is better than letting them just bounce around in my head. Sometimes they form into something coherent ~ then I throw them on the ever-growing half-baked-manuscript pile. And gradually, my understanding evolves. What else is writing for?
Show threadIan Malcolm6d ago

@bodhipaine

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. 🤷‍♂️

Show threadBodhi 心
@imalcolm Also yes, put Goodreads in the bin.
Mar 27 at 1:16amWeb
Show threadIan Malcolm5d ago

@bodhipaine

Yep. Hate Amazon with a passion, but was doing someone a favour doing an ARC review of their book and it needed to be on there for purpose, so "for a good cause"... Felt dirty, but also knew I def wasn't going to set up a permanent home there.

Speaking of the other three avenues you mentioned, in your experience is there any particular advantage/downside to any of them (aside from Bookwyrm's federation)? I planned to sign up for LibraryThing last year, but never got around to it.

Show threadBodhi 心5d ago
@imalcolm I haven’t used Library Thing for a long time so I’m not sure there. It seemed pretty clunky last time I was there. I’ve only just started looking into Open Library. One benefit so far is you can actually borrow books and read them on the site. I’m going to stick with Bookwyrm for social reviewing though. I don’t want to spread myself too thin with managing allllll the platforms.
Show threadIan Malcolm5d ago

@bodhipaine

No worries, I'll prob just give Bookwyrm a try first, cos totally agreed re: allllll the platforms. Last thing I need is to make more online chores for myself. 😉