two movies
Last night we finished watching a documentary about Zen Buddhist Ed Espe Brown called How To Cook Your Life. We loved it. While we watched I addressed envelopes for sending zines, so go me.
Then we started watching Waking Life which my friend H loaned me quite a while ago and I want to give it back this afternoon at writer's group.
I was going to put a link to Ed Brown's wikipedia page, but some days my cut and paste doesn't work, and today is one of those days.
Then we started watching Waking Life which my friend H loaned me quite a while ago and I want to give it back this afternoon at writer's group.
I was going to put a link to Ed Brown's wikipedia page, but some days my cut and paste doesn't work, and today is one of those days.
posted by Laura-Marie @ 9:33 AM
2 Comments:
At January 26, 2010 9:41 AM,
HardtravelingHero said…
I watched Waking Life in 2007. There was a great line in it... I emailed this to Jonica before we met in person cause we used to have conversations about such things.
Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration. And this is where I think language came from. It came form our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another and it had to be easy. When it was just simple survival, like water, we came up with a sound for that. Or sabre tooth tiger right behind you, we came up with a sound for that. But when it gets really interesting, I think, is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. What is frustration, or what is anger, or love? When I say love, the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brain, through their memories of love or lack of love and they register what I'm saying and they say yes they understand but how do I know they understand because words are inert. They're just symbols, they're dead and so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It's unspeakable and yet and when we communicate with one another and we feel that we've connected and we think that we're understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion and that feeling might be transient but I think it's what we live for.
At January 27, 2010 8:32 AM,
Laura-Marie said…
I have a friend Katie H who makes a zine called La-La Theory which is all about language and how language started.
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