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Owl  ·  3821 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your sosumis?

Watching movies, I guess. For whatever reason I can't stand movies. I can count the number of movies I've seen in a year on one hand (This year: 5, all anime related actually), and I only really care about three directors: Fritz Lang, Akira Kurosawa and David Lynch.

Some other people who have managed to earn a kind of respect are Kubrick, Del Toro, and I've been meaning to watch a film by Jan Švankmajer.

That's about it. I don't discount the artistic merit of the medium, and if I dig deep enough, I know I'll find tons of movies that are fantastic with great directors and all that, but for some reason the medium doesn't appeal to me, and I loathe the current age of movies (You ever seen a movie trailer today? To me they all look and sound the same), which has slowly creeped into the world of video games and making that all the more unfun for me.

Another thing I really hate is shoes. Of any kind. As a child I loved to walk with my bare feet and hated shoes. A part of it might have been the fact that I always had trouble tying them, but even I never found a pair that was as good and comfortable as my own two feet. I don't get people who collect them and all that stuff. I had a teacher who claimed to have a rather sizable shoe collection, and I get personal enjoyment and everyone has their own interests that I won't/can't judge them for or anything, but I still wonder why. Nowadays I get used to it and wear shoes and socks and all that, and I get that walking barefooted is a dumb idea what with all the sharp stuff around, but I'll avoid wearing shoes as much as I can.

I suppose lastly is driving. I dislike driving very much. I dislike the idea of being behind the wheel of a machine that can kill someone so easily. My mother was run over by a car (She survived the accident, and while she has back problems that persist to this day, she's okay). The guy behind the wheel was talking on a cell phone. That is probably a good enough reason for a person to not like cars anymore (On another note, I kinda don't like cell phones either), but in any case I feel nervous driving and feel that I never have a good enough view of the outside. But, this is something you have to do, so I drive. I'd rather ride a bicycle, but sometimes you just can't. I'd rather walk, but sometimes you gotta be somewhere at this or that time. Public transportation is good in theory, but unreliable. So a car it is. I drive, but not with much pleasure.

I think that's about it.