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Visakan Veerasamy
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why were 90's cartoons intro themes so damn good?
I mean, the MCU has been pretty great, but I don't think anything about it slaps nearly as hard as the 90s X-Men cartoon intro
The Ghostbusters starts out kinda chill, but when you get to the 30 second mark – the melody, the descending bass notes, (one note hits deliciously earlier than you expect it to), then the harmony on top... so sick
the Batman cartoon had *ludicrously* good aesthetics. Arkham Asylum, Christian Bale, Batfleck, all trash in comparison
Iron Man, also bangin'
So Spider-Man is an interesting one. I'm seriously digging the flanger and phaser effects on the guitar, and at the time it must've been a baller remix on the earlier, cutesy 60s theme. But I think Spidey has been improved since – the PS4 game & Homecoming have better aesthetics
If you made a movie trailer in 2019 that's almost literally a frame-for-frame remake of Double Dragon, it would be so fresh and intense. The pacing is something else altogether
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Visakan Veerasamy
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In an idea-riffy mood this afternoon, thinking about narratives.

For whatever reason, humans seem to be wired for narratives. We’re susceptible to them, dependent on them.

This seems true whether or not we’re aware of it, and whether or not we explicitly articulate it
Alan Watts had many great riffs on this, eg “we are all constantly telling each other who we are”. There’s a finite/infinite, living/dead component to this - many play within boundaries, some play *with* boundaries. Hit “inspect element” and mess around
Everything in our lives is either a part or potentially a part of the story we tell ourselves about who we are and what it’s all about. Every object, person, relationship, idea, thought, memory - all are bits in a larger story we get to write and edit
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Visakan Veerasamy
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Just realized that another way of framing this - which is going to be annoying because it repurposes very loaded language - is that I’m becoming a more religious person. The nuance is that I’m writing my own religion from first principles
Pair with
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Visakan Veerasamy
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one of the coolest things I can do is refer someone else who's more qualified than me + a better fit than me for something. I manage to simultaneously...

1. make at least two people very happy
2. create some real wealth in the world
3. avoid actually doing any work myself
there is some meta-work:

1. you gotta keep track of who's good at what (which I find naturally interesting to pay attention to)

2. you gotta be Not Be An Asshole + Not Tolerate Assholes, which is generally advisable anyway
"keeping track of who's good at what" is a subset of "keeping track of what's good", which is a subset of "cultivate taste"

1. cultivate taste
2. share it with others freely
3. don't be an asshole

holy shit, people *love* you now
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