I'm just over halfway to catching up with you (53) - but with my ridiculous tendency to digressions and rambles I shall surely be overtaking your word count within a month, mwah-ha-ha-haha
Have some heartfelt congratulations, though. Milestones are good. And I'm sure we'll both get 'one' paid subscriber at some point before ww3 (the day before, most likely - there's a story in there).
Megalopolis looks weird, tbh. It's hard to tell from the trailer whether it's going to be utterly pretentious or a very cool spectacle (or both, even). And I am glad to see Adam Driver in something again - he was pretty much the only decent thing about episodes 7-9 (aside from Benicio del Toro perhaps) and he had a terrible script to deal with. He was good in the (torture) report as well.
Good point about Bladerunner though. I shall probably watch Megalopolis at some point once it's on the internet somewhere for free. Can't really watch it at the cinema because unfortunately where I live the French have that excruciating tendency to dub everything...
Your pessimism is most encouraging 🤪 and I can only imagine you type like a million Shakespearean-trained monkeys smoking crack.
I once watched an American film dubbed into German with simultaneous English and French subtitles. 🤯 Both the foreign translations often deviated from the original and I suffered acute vertical nystagmus for hours afterwards. Maybe.
Congrats on a century! What you've written here resonates more strongly than all the "Build your Substack to the stars" posts I keep seeing and I'm glad I clicked on this one and not those.
Thank you so much, Claudia. Balancing the dopamine of short-term approval with the longer-term benefits of personally-approved success is a tricky tightrope to walk. I learn more with every passing day.
I'm just over halfway to catching up with you (53) - but with my ridiculous tendency to digressions and rambles I shall surely be overtaking your word count within a month, mwah-ha-ha-haha
Have some heartfelt congratulations, though. Milestones are good. And I'm sure we'll both get 'one' paid subscriber at some point before ww3 (the day before, most likely - there's a story in there).
Megalopolis looks weird, tbh. It's hard to tell from the trailer whether it's going to be utterly pretentious or a very cool spectacle (or both, even). And I am glad to see Adam Driver in something again - he was pretty much the only decent thing about episodes 7-9 (aside from Benicio del Toro perhaps) and he had a terrible script to deal with. He was good in the (torture) report as well.
Good point about Bladerunner though. I shall probably watch Megalopolis at some point once it's on the internet somewhere for free. Can't really watch it at the cinema because unfortunately where I live the French have that excruciating tendency to dub everything...
Your pessimism is most encouraging 🤪 and I can only imagine you type like a million Shakespearean-trained monkeys smoking crack.
I once watched an American film dubbed into German with simultaneous English and French subtitles. 🤯 Both the foreign translations often deviated from the original and I suffered acute vertical nystagmus for hours afterwards. Maybe.
Only 100? Lol! Congrats. And glad to be "very fortunate"
Thank you! (And let's call it ‘a shared fortune’ 😛.)
Congrats on a century! What you've written here resonates more strongly than all the "Build your Substack to the stars" posts I keep seeing and I'm glad I clicked on this one and not those.
Thank you for reading the post!
Congratulations and happy 100th anniversary 😁! I totally get you about not giving away all your work away for free.
Thank you so much, Claudia. Balancing the dopamine of short-term approval with the longer-term benefits of personally-approved success is a tricky tightrope to walk. I learn more with every passing day.
Congrats on your 100th post here!
Thank you - it's snuck up so quickly!