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Dennis Etzel Jr.
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Positive psychology
https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/first-hand-reports-lindsay-doran-on-the-psychology-of-story-telling-edf125ef2f64
Look for lecture
Another transition
Moving from when I saw the prompt about writing about your first 15 years and 15 minutes into the ritual I developed for safety being in the theater and then move into my 50 movies at the movies 50 years three movies a year
Genres
Keep in mind
Elements as titles: gaffer, lighting, acting, mide en scene
Genres acti9n movies tell us
Introduction I want to include as many films in this
I also wa.t to include Many amazing poets
I want to include the 100 books I would recommend in my journey
I want to dive into wjat Jericho wished for me in my birthday card
Sunday, August 24, 2025
About trees
Naropa exp
Walking trees
The fountain
Tree of Life
Neoplatonism, fountain of god
Hanged man Tarot full knowledge but unable to do anything, just like Odin unable to do anything but with full knowledge
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Develop rituals for healing
Just like my documentary Poetics and erasers for the Vietnam War and also include film, or see a Conrad while standing in line for death writing about the factory work his relatives had to do in writing for their healing maybe I also need to look at the train in Topeka, and how dream is mixed with alcohol to that all of my grandfather's were alcoholics
I was raised by people who spent their lives working in factories where they were treated like bad children who needed to be disciplined for demanding Healthcare and a livable wage. P. 88
work on
to think about working on the intersections, while nodding to the third
poetry and film
film and memoir
poetry and memoir
Napoleon Dynamite and Everything Everywhere All At Once
I worked on the two films, as well as Truman Show. Thinking of the themes, I do worry I am moving away from the other general writing--describing the trifecta of film, poetry, and memoir
So I might come up with that plan? To write about the general as well as the specific?
I was thinking of pulling together literature that combines two, then extend to the third? For example, in Film Therapy, Fatemi ends on a chapter about film and poetry. Then pull in how memoir functions in the same way?
Name each part, A function of the trifecta?
Time to revise, too
Thinking of how this time might happen, I know about myself that my best work of creativity comes in the morning.
So this miught mean that afternoons are for revision.
Part of my brain, even finding past writing to fuse with the current stuff, just doesn't want to touch assembling yet.
Also, I should reserve time for reading. And movie watching.
Monday, August 11, 2025
Wild nights
https://girlsontopstees.com/en-us/blogs/read-me/wild-nights-the-journey-to-find-justice-for-emily-dickinson#:~:text=Devised%20by%20reading%20and%20analysing,and%20even%20before)%20she%20died.
To work on
And just because a movie isn't transformative to you doesn't mean it's not a transformative film Gather that everything everywhere all at once stuff
Discuss right about how I couldn't even make it through the first part of dodgeball, make the comedy and the sarcasm
Also Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Going to the library to look up the books about magic or I'll just do it at home
Sunday, August 10, 2025
Search key words
I found a book written by Jennifer Love Hewitt which is a memoir and it's something about creating magic. Now that might be an interesting thing to do search through a library catalog with the keyword magic and identify which books might have to do with that
Saturday, August 9, 2025
2004
Just like a year can be used to measure an amazing event that has happened or even reflect how the personal in the public reflect each other, I'd like to look at the year 2004. Of course I'm also looking at 2025 right now because it just seems so amazing for both superhero and horror films
Friday, August 8, 2025
Film as art and narrative as Construction
https://collider.com/you-need-to-be-genius-fully-understand-these-movies/
I never liked it when people phrase it like you have to understand a movie. I'd rather say I come away from a movie having an experience. And even playing with how we might think of the narrative because of certain things happening, the best way I know is to just say think of the movie as a dream. And all of a sudden people are more understanding about it.
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Tony tost
I do want to write my small thing about Americana and hope that that's the Regal mystery movie on Monday. This is the one topic I'd like to do is approach how different poets use poetry and maybe I need to write those small pieces by themselves and then figure out where they need to be put in the book? Definitely image based with CA and Selah. We have the approach from Sauued Momsen fatemi, that the last chapter talks about movies in poetry.
Monday, August 4, 2025
Archetypal
I should definitely include the archetypal like from Maureen Murdock Smith making she has a whole chapter in it. P128
Another transition
Crying at the movies
reliving childhoods
movies and dreams
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My writing leads to its own transitions because of what I discover through writiing
the "organic" way to write makes its own plans
Sunday, August 3, 2025
A note on the process AKA why Choose Your Own Adventure will work
Yes of course I was thinking about this, how Ferris Bueller day off was such a big hit when it came out this summer I turned 16. It came out in June and I was given the free poster and free button to really lock in the excitement for the movie as I was one of the first to see it at the Gage 4 theater. Then more than a month later I would be working my first job, two days after I had turned 16. In other words I didn't learn any lessons about how life goes too fast.
So what's interesting is that I have a lot to write about this movie, but it also goes into a transition of the monsters Journey, that this discussion of how movies can symbolize both the self and Shadow, and their characters that we might not like but then would be best representative of ourselves the parts we don't want to see. That the monsters journey is developed so you come to healing and accepting the monster you've become, the monster and human combined. And I think of the movie Gremlins as a great example of that.
Course there's also when you're thinking of Horror because that was more of child horror, like one of the first horror movies in a while that was made for children too? Which is really weird it was the '80s, but then you can get into it came from the closet, how queer identities saw themselves in horror movies.
This removed Utopia Style
Like writing using a book of poetry about movies or from one of the other books to borrow words when I get stuck
Possible transition
Going from Ferris bueler and the duality of life, are you more like _ or Ferris
Into the Monster's Journey and my own films gremlins
Into the mythology of monsters
Friday, August 1, 2025
Work for this week
Work on the crying chapter>>>finished with quotes 8/4
Finish Fast Food, >>work on quotes
but also consider how Ferris Bueller's Day Off might be its own thing >> watch film
Watch the movie as looking at Cameron as a survivor
Who does Ferris surround himself with? How did I fall in with charismatic people I called friends to only see them use me?
How does Ferris use Cameron throughout the film
Use the cinemaparenting book? He talks about ferris, how we should tell our children which character they like and if they like Ferris more than they should like be more like them