Tim Ferriss once said that he had initially avoided meditation for fear it would bliss him out and diminish his drive. In my case, I fear that it’s true.
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Meditation Killed My Motivation
Posted in Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Reading, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Alain De Botton, Blade Runner, Buddha, How Proust Can Change Your Life, In Search of Lost Time, Luke David, Marcus Aurelius, Nietzsche, Osho, Proust, Roy Batty, Scott Moncrieff, Tim Ferriss on December 1, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle
Ex Machina
Posted in Film, Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags Blade Runner, Netflix, Parasite, Stan, Turing Test on August 24, 2021 by Jarrod Boyle
I tend to peruse my Netflix and Stan accounts with dismay. Firstly, they clash with the portrait I paint of myself socially, as someone who ‘doesn’t watch television.’ Secondly, I find that I’ll open an account with a streaming service because I want to see something specific, like Parasite, for example, and then I’m confounded by the volume of crap I don’t want to see that comes with it.
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Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags 21, A Perfect Circle, Adele, Blade Runner, Diary of a Madman, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Love Song, Maynard james Keenan, mobius strip, Monaro, Ozzy Osbourne, Rachael, Replicant, Rick Deckard, Someone Like You, The Cure on December 3, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
12: The Heart of the Problem
“I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited but
I couldn’t stay away, I couldn’t fight it
I had hoped you’d see my face and that you’d be reminded
That for me, it isn’t over…”
-Adele,
Someone Like You
I’ve been driving around in the yellow Monaro with Adele blaring from the stereo (not very rock and roll). Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 