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“I told Miyazaki I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are. “We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.” Is that like the “pillow words” that separate phrases in Japanese poetry? “I don’t think it’s like the pillow word.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.””
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Rogert Ebert, on Hayao Miyazaki
(Also applicable for improv.)
#24
Turns out both of us have been reading Roger Ebert daily for the past decade. A handshake, akin to the one from an iconic album cover, hints at how we felt upon reading what proved to be his last words.
@just-wanna-be-good
I like what I see, I want what I like, I own what I want and what I own loves me.
For lizzy
Who doesn't just want to be good?
I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
Oliver Reed
Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.
Roger Ebert
There's never any time for anything that's remotely kinky, and even when I try to send some kinky stuff, it always gets shut down.
Guy Sebastian
I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.
Billy Al Bengston
The magic of things is that in the end they are all fleeting, you don't really own anything like your own arm. Those we believe we possess possess us, especially our passions.
Passion that creates suffering, a fusion of longing coupled with desire to forget.
It's not me who controls passion, it controls me. Every dom of self-importance and self-indulgence thinks he leads the sub, but far from it, it leads him.
Once someone has awakened the desire in you, they can lead you on a lead even if they have the collar on at the end of the lead.
mod
Part of the game is that you only ever sell the illusion, never yourself. A concept of self-promotion with a passion.
You only ever look at the moon but you never set foot on it. I like what you do, it's like a shop full of anticipation for all people who like to look at the moon.
Don't get me wrong it really is a pleasure to look at you but a coffee in a kinky bar in reality is always my first choice.