It kind of feels like the internet ruined it a bit. Jobs are so fucking competitive now, and posted so far and wide, that everyone is desperately jumping through hoops submitting white-hot applications. I can’t just walk in an ask around, and get lucky. Why would they take a risk on me when they can send the job posting out to the most overqualified candidates in the area?

If you have the chance to do a degree you might as well. It’s really not that difficult to at least pass. Like, the standard of work I saw from my worst classmates (who all passed) was sometimes quite astounding. I played video games and smoked too much weed, handed stuff in that I thought was totally shoddy, and still got a first. So do a lot of people.

If you do one, make sure it’s one with a lot of practical stuff or placements. That way your grade isn’t on doing some academic bullshit essay where you have to self motivate in the comfort of your own home where you’d rather be doing anything else, it’s about showing up to a place where you can really feel you’re learning a real world skill. And you can then put it on your CV. Very valuable. Plus it’s fun, you’ll meet people you can hang out with. University is more about gaining people skills and confidence than learning, to be honest.

That said… I’m on the job hunt now and I’m not qualified for fucking anything either, lol. That’s on me for doing an arts based degree. Every application takes fucking forever too. But with the experience I got from doing a degree, it feels like I’m at least hitting the dartboard, whereas before i was blindly throwing it at the backboard. Once I’ve thrown 150 darts, I might just get a bullseye one of these days.

Hm. I think you have identified a plot/plot device rather than a genre really.

Memento I would put in a similar realm to Shutter Island (man is a detective in a mental asylum… or is he!!!) - that being psychological horror/mystery. You could add The Machinist to that (man cant sleep and goes nuts… or something - I don’t really remember lol).

What I’ve noticed writing this is that those films are experiential narratives - you are essentially given the same disordered thinking as the protagonist.

12 Monkeys on the other hand is more science fictiony - a bit like Terry Gilliam’s (12 Monkey’s director) Brazil. (man becomes disillusioned in a surreal dystopia, everyone thinks he’s mad). That’s a great movie.

Now straddling experiential madness and Terry Gilliam is Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, where you follow Hunter S Thompson’s psychedelic Las Vegas drug binge from his perspective. It’s not scary so much, but it might tickle your fancy.

You could also probably try any David Lynch film. Lost Highway. Mulholland Drive. Eraserhead.

otherwise…

Truman Show

The Game (Fincher)

Woman In The Dunes

They Live

Stalker (maybe)

Aguirre, Wrath Of God

Hard To Be A God (otherworldly scientist gets sent to a medieval planet, but is forbidden from altering their world)

White Noise (I didn’t really like it, to be honest)

Bunny And The Bull (maybe)

The Hourglass Sanatorium (surrealist masterpiece I would say, a film like it will never be made again)

spot on

he shot himself in the head with a BB gun that night

Amber

It’s even in conservative shit, except for them it’s usually bad guy CIA vs good guy FBI, or something like that.

I think it’s going to be ironic, in a lib sort of way, where Superman discovers that America bad, and that some deep state shadow agency is colluding with a foreign entity, but then Superman saves the day and America becomes the good and true America that America was always destined to be.

I sort wonder whether because it is always a given that America will veto in favour of war/imperialism, and people are used to that, Britain and Frances vote for ceasefire was pre planned to be an empty but people pleasing move, with approval from America. Europe aren’t complaining about America doing such a thing, over and over and over for a century. They seem quite happy to just disagree and have that count as meaningful action.

In this scenario, America is to Europe as the Republicans are to Democrats. Europe needs America to be Mr Big Bad so it’s rulers can continue to pretend that they care about peace.

holy fuck

death to America

A good one is Bobby Sands street in Tehran, renamed after the IRA activist who got starved to death in prison. The best part - it’s the street that the British Embassy is on.

ah–ah–ah–ah

yep nevermind it’s not propaganda it’s real

all aboard

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I fucking hate Blinken

seriously my least favourite ghoul

Kissinger was a devil

Musk is fucking infuriating

but Blinken is such a greasy little slime fuck

when Israel kills 40000 innocent people and then blocks aid

…

when Venezuela blocks American aid (that in the past has been used to smuggle weapons on the continent), across a bridge that has already been closed for months, and the aid gets set on fire but actually from a right winger’s molotov, while other aid is being allowed into the country from nonprofits, and USAID elsewhere in the country is being used to fund right wing parties:

now we just get slow crawls/shimmies along small gaps while the level loads

just give me a rotatable object instead for fuck sake

it rules

Seinfeld

nah but really it’s Mountains Of Mars by Electric Wizard