Yam Uncle's Thoughts

Watched the renowned (I guess) movie Whiplash today.  Feels like this blog's becoming about either lifting or movies... maybe just the easiest things for me to write about.  Anyways.  Great movie.  Felt really well made.  Nothing was wasted.  Quick flickers of images that mean something, especially at that last scene.  Sometimes those linger too long in some movies.  At least some that I've watched.  Something about it.  But the timing of those fast shots, the timing of the long shots, it was like, the length of each of those scenes and cuts felt really perfect to me.  Didn't think this was going to be the first thing I was going to talk about lol.  Maybe I became more sensitive to this especially after making my own animations?  Where things like lingering scenes and frame rates become really important.  As for the story.  I mean honestly fuck Fletcher.  And what great writing and acting by JK Simmons t...

I feel like I think about Leve a lot but surprisingly I've never written about him or his works.  I found out about his work through Paperbird.  About a year and a half ago I bought two of his books, Suicide and Autoportrait.  I remember especially wanting to read Suicide.  It's hard to remember the reason exactly.  I must've been reading something and felt like wanting to dig into that topic.  Or most likely, I'd just finished reading Gravity's Rainbow and just wanted a light read to enjoy something, and also understand what the fuck was actually being said on the pages. Just yesterday I picked up Suicide again, and started re-reading it from where I had last put a bookmark in, at around the 40-page mark.  And this time it felt like a different read.  I feel like the reading experience for really anything changes for me, and probably for a lot of readers, according to what I expect from the book, or like, what I want from the book. The thing ...

I've been doing this thing lately where I'll write about a topic that was really interesting to me in the moment, write like 80% of the blogs, but then leave it for a while and not get that last bit done to officially publish it.  It could be some sort of burnout, sure, like losing that intensity I was writing with before, and not being sure about how to get back into the same voice when I decided to try and finish the blog.  But there are also blogs that are about more sensitive and difficult topics to talk about, and those are hard to publish even after writing them.  Even though almost no one reads this blog, it's also kind of scary to put it out to the public. And the reason why I brought this up is because I've felt lifting stuff is always easy to write and post.  Just a quick remark and something that might help another person out who's been stuck with the same issues I've had.  So this one's about pause squats. I do pause squats once a week as par...