Jesse Screed
Hey Mr.BodF, I’m glad that I revisited this video. Except, now I’m really confused.
Mostly I’m confused about where copying ends and originality begins.
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The nature of the 20th and 21st century has been the recording of "history" and the "record keeping" of it. As such, the amount of material increases to an astonishing level and continues to rise.
As this continues, I predict (cynicism at its best!) that no one can be original anymore, which in a funny sort of cartoon way is what some of these "troll" types want ... the money is already taken up and no one else can get a nickel anymore, because ... the money is already taken up! To me, this is a bit scary, because it means none of us can create anything new, and someone will inevitably say that the 4 notes you wrote came out of some this and that 100 years ago, and you are violating the rights of some ash ridden corpses somewhere, making money for .... who knows? Like wise, you can never again, start a story with "Time was that ...." or "It was a long time ago ... " because someone else has already copyrighted that ... and pretty soon, the whole system will crash on its own weight, because even its own folks will get caught up in their own trap sooner or later.
There is/are, such things as "originals", but again, if anyone breaks down its parts, the relative mentions are so many and so far that no one can even mention anything in its proper context ... I mean, look at one example the "Remix" showed, with "Carrie", and no one wants to see how much it copied a Luis Bunuel film that became the scourge of the Church that attacked it vehemently and made it more famous ... but you were trapped, and in the end, you go to another church ... and you are trapped again. And while you don't see the doors slam, you do see the doors as ... can't get close to them, or touch them ... as if they were bigger than life and something that you did not touch, discuss or ... sounds familiar in many ideals we have from a few books, doesn't it?
I, for example, do not claim originality, except in the way I present it. My brain functions like a dream or a movie and it has a very bad sense of "timing" and that means that it moves forward and backwards with a lot of ease, and it is like a 3 or 4 part movie happening at the same time, and the audiences hate watching it, because they can not make sense of each individual prime time simple story ... well, if life were that simple ...
A very tough film to watch, if anyone ever has, is Peter Greenaway's "The Pillow Book", and the harsh part of it is that the film goes on for almost its entirety with a small square where something else is taking place, and that is TO ME a perfect how your mind and mine works, with the side effect that sometimes we are not honest enough to admit what is really happening in there and what it is suggesting, which we notice at times, and not at others. It's very difficult to make sense of any of it, within a film, for many reasons, but it creates an astounding element that drives you crazy ... is that what she is thinking? Is that what she is writing? ... and these do not always mix at all.
I would admit that all of it is a remix, but this "remix" does not always have a time span or element tied to it, and this is the part that makes things very difficult to explain and discuss. I do not have stories, or visions of a past life at all, but I have seen things that I think are future, and sci-fi like that I can not explain, including sounds of instruments I have never heard ... one of the reasons why I love so much experimental music ... to find those sounds.
I'll finish reading the Easy Rider thing .. but seeing that Terry Southern was involved, adds another dimention to it, that I had not quite understood, or thought about. Some of his other writings, are very interesting, and even while being silly (Candy), he is still pointed and suggesting a lot of different things while also making obvious comments about other things. So, finding the Faustian and Dante ideas mixed into this, is all of a sudden more interesting, but I certainly do not want it to become just another stony fantasy of some stupid movie is the sidetrack to Dark Side of the Moon! That one, was one of the worst I have ever heard! It even has no literary or intellectual merit for me or most people here.