a collection of thoughts

Scorsese and Lily Gladstone scorsese just released his latest film in theatres and its called 'killers of the flower moon' and is based in 1920s oklahoma surrounding the osage tribes scorsese has been in the news recently, especially for his comments regarding some of the biggest movies of our past decade - superhero movies. scorsese draws a parallel to them being equivalent to theme park rides and not real cinema. Scorsese's thoughts on superhero movies when scorsese talks about cinema, its easy to snide and pass him off as just a snob who doesn't like fun movies - but this movie embodies what scorsese keeps talking about and the fact that this is truly cinema. this movie embodies the power that cinema as an art form truly holds. walking out of the theatres, you will have learned about something from perspectives of people you would've never gotten to see unless you had actively seeked them out. empathy and growth by just paying a small amount of money while also b...

Music being one of the oldest art forms has obviously undergone major evolutions with major sonic differences helping us classify our beloved art form better. Music has become such an ingrained part of everything we as humans do because it's the ultimate way of stimulating one of our major senses; hearing. All major art forms tend to remain dependent on music to further accentuate the intended emotional response they attempt to evoke from their audience; whether it be movies playing the Devil's interval in unsettling scenes or somber music accompanying a grand revelation in a video game. Because of this aforementioned function of music in accentuating emotions in a lot of art forms, we as a society usually end up using music to accentuate our emotions too; playing the Lose Yourself soundtrack imagining yourself to be a protagonist of a movie, playing chipper Gorillaz tracks for when you're feeling good, blasting Death Grips on full volume when you get frustrated, playing Su...

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities -- the political, the religious, the educational authorities --- who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing -- forming in our minds -- their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself. - Timothy Leary As I sit here on my computer, listening to music, writing this blogpost which would probably be read by at most a few people and would not matter at all in the long term. I sit here pondering life as I am going to be moving to a new city and starting a new job very soon. I sit here filling my ears to the brim with the overblown drums of industrial music as I have a few unresolved arguments and conflicts in my relationships...

It's a recurring theme in a lot of art forms about power corrupting the greedy, the wealthy, and the sadistic people. There is no coincidence that this theme keeps repeating itself, it keeps repeating because it's true. Power indeed consumes, power indeed corrupts, so is the nature of power.  But, the interesting thing to me about this is that these thematic events usually happen to the greedy, the privileged, and more often than not the wealthy people. Usually, it's a captivating plot, but Dark Souls 3 did something different and it's very riveting. To talk further about this, let me give some context. Dark Souls games usually revolve around a very basic plot, with the exposition being something like this: In the beginning, there was the age of darkness, where gigantic creatures like dragons ruled over the world. Eventually, a flame appeared which started engulfing the darkness with its bright light. The first finders of the flame also found inordinate power in it, and...

I love playing games, and that is evident to anyone who knows me. So, today we are gonna go over a core concept attached to games: difficulty. Games, like other art forms, have a huge amount of subjectivity attached to them. Every player is different, and in the end, prefer/want to have a different experience with whatever game they are playing. Traditionally, games were very hard. If you look back to the NES era, every game is obscenely difficult, so difficult that it makes Dark Souls look like a game made for infants. Mind you, this difficulty was not arbitrary, it was deliberately made to be hard because, back then, harder games = more time spent playing the game, and also an 8 KB cartridge can only hold so much content. Even though I look back at a lot of titles from that time with a lot of fondness and appreciation, in reality, it may be my nostalgia glasses and I wouldn't be able to beat a single level of Contra if I tried today.  Now that we have established how games used t...

  Introduction I have been meaning to start a blog for the longest, and have always put off starting one. I often jot down my thoughts in documents here and there, and I figured a blog would be a great place to collectively amalgamate my thoughts. And so, here it is, a brief fanboyish analysis of one of my favorite artists. Kanye is one of the most celebrated artists of our generation and for the most part rightfully so. Amidst the various public controversies, it becomes a common practice to demean his artistic works too. His discography, despite his often insane public statements, remains one of the most consistent and versatile amongst almost any major artist of this era. That feeling like you're the main character while you listen to a song on the bus? Kanye's production and creative design is the epitome of this. Kanye has previously mentioned that he "produces music as if it's a soundtrack to a movie". This quality of Kanye's music gives his music an unr...