art recommendation, buddhism, peace
Jan. 10th, 2026 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
comix64 i sent Hakita an email just asking for art recommendations. to my surprise i was given a full list of films and albums. cool! i want to watch The Last Man on Earth (1964) and The Lighthouse (2019). i think that email will be a really good source of furthering my sort of experience spree. i also want to watch The Tatami Galaxy (2010), which was sort of reinterpreted and reillustrated into the album cover for "Tennis, Everyone?". it seems like a nice exercise in fiction's use of the concept of alternate universes, which i like since most works that explore the time-space continuum tend to do time alteration, not space alteration. Everything Everywhere All at Once did it on a more extreme level, but it wasn't really well executed w/r/t the film's setting. it was a really good film nonetheless.
ive got a place, sort of, for a little, until ive seen everything Hakita recommends, which i probably wont see all of anyway, since not all of it interests me, and so but now i just need to find a place to get the actual films, which should be easy since i can pirate over Usenet quickly. i just need a time to start, and a time to watch.
and speaking of time, my mom invited me to go to the buddhist temple nearby, but i declined because im not sure how awkward i would feel there, and also because its at 10am, and recently my sleep hasnt been so good, what with me falling asleep ~1am and waking up ~9am. i want to brush up on my general understanding of it before i go anyway, because despite me considering myself buddhist, ive only barely touched any buddhist-related info, and i couldnt tell you any of his teachings.
life feels really nice now. i have some fine art readily available (the entirety of The Last Man on Earth can be watched directly from Wikipedia!) and i havent really had any problems lately other than ones i can easily solve. i am peaceful, like a roman philosopher, my only issue now is that i havent read as much philosophy as i'd like, and i havent viewed as much art as i'd like.
ive got a place, sort of, for a little, until ive seen everything Hakita recommends, which i probably wont see all of anyway, since not all of it interests me, and so but now i just need to find a place to get the actual films, which should be easy since i can pirate over Usenet quickly. i just need a time to start, and a time to watch.
and speaking of time, my mom invited me to go to the buddhist temple nearby, but i declined because im not sure how awkward i would feel there, and also because its at 10am, and recently my sleep hasnt been so good, what with me falling asleep ~1am and waking up ~9am. i want to brush up on my general understanding of it before i go anyway, because despite me considering myself buddhist, ive only barely touched any buddhist-related info, and i couldnt tell you any of his teachings.
life feels really nice now. i have some fine art readily available (the entirety of The Last Man on Earth can be watched directly from Wikipedia!) and i havent really had any problems lately other than ones i can easily solve. i am peaceful, like a roman philosopher, my only issue now is that i havent read as much philosophy as i'd like, and i havent viewed as much art as i'd like.
