Comments on: What You’re Trying to Be http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/what-youre-trying-to-be/ Curated Videos Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:00:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Sean Dixon http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/what-youre-trying-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-873 Sean Dixon Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:39:45 +0000 http://ryeberg.com/?p=6439#comment-873 goddamn missing 'Like' button. goddamn missing ‘Like’ button.

]]> By: Nyla Matuk http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/what-youre-trying-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-867 Nyla Matuk Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:39:58 +0000 http://ryeberg.com/?p=6439#comment-867 Pasha, Crash is one of my favourite films--I have a gigantic poster of it at home! Mostly, it does what your wonderful curated video does, which is yoke together two things that would seem to be in friction, but that illuminate some aspect of the other. The actors speak in a sort of stylized way--there is a mesmeric quality that I think makes the desire between the lovers much more intense for viewers. And how he managed to make aesthetically viable what would normally be repulsive (and many people hate this film because they are horrified by injury) is a mystery. It's Jason Molina-good--I think it's melancholy too... Pasha, Crash is one of my favourite films–I have a gigantic poster of it at home! Mostly, it does what your wonderful curated video does, which is yoke together two things that would seem to be in friction, but that illuminate some aspect of the other. The actors speak in a sort of stylized way–there is a mesmeric quality that I think makes the desire between the lovers much more intense for viewers. And how he managed to make aesthetically viable what would normally be repulsive (and many people hate this film because they are horrified by injury) is a mystery. It’s Jason Molina-good–I think it’s melancholy too…

]]> By: Elyse Friedman http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/what-youre-trying-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-863 Elyse Friedman Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:21:48 +0000 http://ryeberg.com/?p=6439#comment-863 Where's that "Like" button? Where’s that “Like” button?

]]> By: Pasha Malla http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/what-youre-trying-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-861 Pasha Malla Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:12:52 +0000 http://ryeberg.com/?p=6439#comment-861 Thanks man. Thanks man.

]]> By: Pasha Malla http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/what-youre-trying-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-860 Pasha Malla Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:12:34 +0000 http://ryeberg.com/?p=6439#comment-860 Ha, well that was maybe as much a cop-out as anything else... Ha, well that was maybe as much a cop-out as anything else…

]]> By: Pasha Malla http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/what-youre-trying-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-859 Pasha Malla Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:11:56 +0000 http://ryeberg.com/?p=6439#comment-859 Thanks, Nyla, for the kind words. I think I need to watch Crash again. I only remember being bored. Is it good? (Like Jason Molina good?) Thanks, Nyla, for the kind words. I think I need to watch Crash again. I only remember being bored. Is it good? (Like Jason Molina good?)

]]> By: Nyla Matuk http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/what-youre-trying-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-854 Nyla Matuk Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:08:33 +0000 http://ryeberg.com/?p=6439#comment-854 Mary, I also felt my own essays over-explained after I read/saw this one... Mary, I also felt my own essays over-explained after I read/saw this one…

]]> By: Mary Gaitskill http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/what-youre-trying-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-852 Mary Gaitskill Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:07:36 +0000 http://ryeberg.com/?p=6439#comment-852 Thank you, especially for saying the part about “some things are better left unexplained and instead, felt”. That is something I’ve meant to say in many of these essays and somehow my impulse to write too much has usually gotten the better of me. This is so good and car races are something I normally have no interest in. Thank you, especially for saying the part about “some things are better left unexplained and instead, felt”. That is something I’ve meant to say in many of these essays and somehow my impulse to write too much has usually gotten the better of me. This is so good and car races are something I normally have no interest in.

]]> By: Nyla Matuk http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/what-youre-trying-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-850 Nyla Matuk Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:08:15 +0000 http://ryeberg.com/?p=6439#comment-850 Beautiful--my favourite curated video so far. The rush of vulnerability, a metaphor for love. And it reminds me of David Cronenberg's Crash, if you want to take out the longing and substitute with sexual interest. Thanks for introducing me to the music of Jason Molina. Beautiful–my favourite curated video so far. The rush of vulnerability, a metaphor for love.

And it reminds me of David Cronenberg’s Crash, if you want to take out the longing and substitute with sexual interest.

Thanks for introducing me to the music of Jason Molina.

]]> By: Sean Dixon http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/what-youre-trying-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-845 Sean Dixon Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:54:03 +0000 http://ryeberg.com/?p=6439#comment-845 amazing. ___ amazing.
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