Shh!\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t tell anyone, but I don’t have a job right now.<\/p>\n
Wait.\u00c2\u00a0 You knew that.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I’ve spent many days at home alone.\u00c2\u00a0 I beat some video games, lazed around doing now a whole hell of a lot, and didn’t leave the house very much.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not been good times.<\/p>\n
After a while, I decided to do something other than apply for a few jobs that I know no one will call me back for.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever I was doing, I needed some background noise.\u00c2\u00a0 Since all my music is on an external hard drive that requires my computer to be in a specific place that is not very conducive to me doing anything with the computer other than listening to music.\u00c2\u00a0 Consequently, I put on movies.<\/p>\n
Using cinema for background noise is a delicate art.\u00c2\u00a0 When you’re listening to music and a song comes on that you really want to listen to, you stop to listen to it.\u00c2\u00a0 When a song comes on that you don’t want to hear, you ignore it.\u00c2\u00a0 Either way, that’s losing four minutes of noise.\u00c2\u00a0 Not a huge interruption; in fact, it could even be thought to be a good thing, a little break.<\/p>\n
With a movie, you have to think a lot harder about what you want.\u00c2\u00a0 It has to be something with which you have enough familiarity that you won’t get sucked in completely, but also something that you won’t completely tune out and therefore defeat the purpose.<\/p>\n
I believe that this conundrum rather neatly illustrates the differences between the four-minute masterpieces that good pop music can be and the ninety-minute opuses that every film aspires to be.\u00c2\u00a0 Unless, you know, they’re not ninety minutes long.\u00c2\u00a0 Or four minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever.<\/p>\n
Our society has evolved.\u00c2\u00a0 We are all consumers now, and art is a commodity.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes, we have to turn that commodity into noise so that we can stay sane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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