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Amores Perros - 2000
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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A story about how 3 completely different groups of people's lives intersect at a car crash.
3 stories, one movie, all bound together by thwarted love and dogs.
Surprisingly good, although my reviews lend nothing to the praise it's received. Worthwhile.
Books I Have Read...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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It's been almost a year getting rid of most of my books.
I made a list. Not complete, but as close as I'll get. It's a long list, so I'm throwing in a "Read More..." so it doesn't fill up the blog...
Extended Mind
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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An interesting take on the idea of mind, that a substantial portion of it lies outside of our brain.
Link: Wikipedia on the Extended Mind Hypothesis
I regard this less as a Hypothesis than a way of reframing our ideas of mind - mind is shaped not only by our environment, is more than the sum of our own memories (think film and books), is in fact extended everywhere we can see and a great many places we cannot.
We can store our thoughts on paper, in computers, share them around the world, words, videos, can provoke responses, themselves extending our minds, our physical place - house, apartment, furnishings, knick-knacks, all contribute to the quality of mind, all are governed, managed, we can set up our computers, AI bot agents, to furnish us with news we want (or need), we can disregard the evidence of our senses and education in favour of what our phones tell us, our memories...
And - these media allow us to extend our mind both forward and backwards through time, we can remember fondly their acquisition just as others may remember us in the inheritance of said objects, the theory implies the existence of the person beyond their mortal lives...
The Week Past, and behind on all bills
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Today my phone - yet again, is cut off because of reasons of non-payment.
As will be my power soon.
Work, 4 pay periods behind for a total probably around $2500. My account is empty, my meds running out, and I'm behind on every bill. This is absurd. The sum of my paycheques alone would see me out of debt, but - I have to be patient. The stress is humming in my ears.
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Last week, after my big day of chores, work - OK, then off to the Dosed Party, which is fine, only I'm a little annoyed about the state of my finances, and having been up all day and working am less about the party and more about making an appearance.
The party is fine, but I've no appetite for going hard.
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News; one missing person found dead, another person gone missing, it's fall in the Kootenays. In the paper a despised customer is doing a reading at the library, she's written a book, all about the power of horsies to cure intergenerational trauma, her "Author's" photo shows her supercilious half-smile, she's rude and entitled and - when possible I let others serve her. But she's an "Author" and published, so - clearly a little more efficient than I. I find her book at the library - all the libraries have a few copies - it's a Vanity Press where the author has paid to publish and then provide copies to all the local libraries and hope to make a few sales. I scan it, but I so despise the author I can't bring myself to read it.
Work has gone from dead-slow to busy, checking my phone every day in the hopes I'll get paid, apparently tomorrow but I've heard this so many times before...
Yesterday, the municipal election and all the candidates are promising the same things, reading up on all of them and I can't make a decision, If I could have attended their debates I might have a better idea, but I didn't get a chance to, and so - being familiar with the issues, and the candidates all taking a similar stance, I abstain from voting. I'm not in this educated enough to make an informed decision.
And the upstairs neighbour, back together with her man, and in the wee hours I can hear her upstairs stumbling around drunk, dropping thing, heavy footsteps, in the morning there's the vacuum as she cleans up from the night before...
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Other neighbour, coming over to install coinbase and crypto wallets on my phone, she's convinced hers has been hacked, it takes me hours to set up an account, scans of my drivers license, this after work, or on my days off, hours of no-conversation, of watching her fuck with her phone, with mine, finally getting her crypto deposited only to lose it all in a matter of minutes...
Meanwhile she's making herself pasta, leaving me the dishes, and when I go to make my potstickers she woofs them down as well, the potsticker, in the pan, on the stove, I'm turned to do something else when the pan slides off the stove, crashes to the floor, potstickers, water, oil, everywhere, and I'm pissed and wasn't I just complaining about the extinction of Poltergeists and yet here it appears I have one of my own...
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Then there's the Alberta Separatist referendum, refer-a-friend-dumb, Alberta, the dip shit version of our country, when they're done I say the rest of the country should have a vote to expel them; let them live a few years with their leaders and folly, charge them all passage to leave that god-forsaken province, charge visas to visit the rest of the country, and when they change their mind charge them all $100, 000 each to reenter the country...
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Yesterday, a garage sale, a tonne of art supplies only I'm broke at the moment, and probably I don't need more art supplies and while it's hard to pass on a bargain it's pretty easy when your wallet is empty. Tonight when it wraps up I'll visit again, see if there's a free pile to raid, although when I was there things were vanishing quick...
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