Best Picture

I used to have a really clear top ten movies of all time for me. Like ones I loved beyond all reason. Same with books and everything. As I've gotten older I still encounter amazing things that influence me a lot but they more go into their own categories. But I feel like I should preserve more the ones that I really loved, remember them more clearly.

Top movie for the last few years (that I saw)...

2018- Loving Vincent
2017- I Heart Huckabee's
2016-Moonlight

Also from 2018
Won't you be my neighbor?
The Happy Prince

Movies that really hit me since I moved to Australia, or like in my adult life, that I still remember

Korkoro
Pan's Labyrinth
The Castle
Vincere
That Iraq war one
Whiplash
Everything is Illuminated
District 9
Slumdog Millionaire
Little Miss Sunshine
Lilo and Stitch
Lost in Translation
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Men with guns
The stoning of soraya m
Wind that shakes the barley
Bye bye lenin
Beautiful Thing
Solidarity (Swedish)
Four lions
Cradle will Rock
French Kiss
Say Anything
Little Village, Little Flame
Benny and Joon
The Emperor's New Groove

The single most worthwhile goal

The single most worthwhile goal that will make them get up and work on it for at least one hour a day. What is that thing for me now?

Take this job and shove it, I ain't working here no more

All I want is freedom, a place with no more night
And you always beside me, to guard me and to guide me.

When I Cry

It's not weird, a lesser person would have sing it perfectly (Malcolm gladwell podcast)

The kid, it turned out, was not a machine. Kids never are (John Green podcast)

Rick Ankheil got the yips but the yips didn't get him(John Green podcast)

It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway (Atticus Finch (John Green podcast)

When I crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything (Harriet Tubman good night stories for rebel girls)

Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see (John Green)

Even though I was supposed to be basically grown up and my mother annoyed the hell out of me, I couldn't stop thinking until her lullaby finally put me to sleep. (John Green)

It's comforting to think that when we're too fatigued to fight someone else will take the lead. (Guardian long read It is perhaps too comforting)

Well there are no wizards Gretchen Ruben

It could never be forgotten because now is now, now could never be a long time ago (Laura ingalls Wilder)(thought of that a lot of times since)

They never used to listen and now they won't stop. What is it they actually want? (Guardian wolf man podcast)

It's not angst anymore it's despair (about Johnny Cash hurt Malcom gladwell)

They believe that noone is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested.  The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence. (Pratchett reaper man)

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. (Proust goldblatt film)

Tension release, tension release (Howard ho talking about why music makes us cry)

From podcasts

So I listen to a lot of podcasts, YouTube videos, and I come across these thoughts that seem interesting, maybe important. Here's some from recently.

We can combat fascism only if we grasp that it rouses and sweeps along broad social masses who have lost the earlier security of their existence and with it often their belief in social order.

A story about Amber Miller
The daughter of a friend came up to her with a rose. She asked
"Is this beautiful?"
"Yes"
Then she puts the rose behind her back.
"Is it still beautiful?"
"Yes"
"You see, beauty is in your mind, not in the rose"

We were soft and those we considered losers were hard.

Olympic athletes are maybe not as fit and strong as people in hunter gatherer times the anthropologists think.

The Assyrians were fuuucked uuup. So like ancient life is kind of brutal short and insecure, but like you could kind of live with the Persians. The Assyrians, you wouldn't like them when they're angry.