In The Kindergarten Teacher (2018) when Maggie Gyllenhaal is mad about her son joining the military because she doesn’t want him going to the desert to fight for oil ..like wig!
I feel like there are no graduate museum studies programs out there that I really like… probably NYU is most like what I want. But I want to be in NYC, and other schools in New York are shockingly lackluster in their museum studies programs. The Bard Graduate Center is ok i guess, but again not what I want.
But at the end of the day I need to calm down abt it bc I won’t be graduating for like 3 for years. I just need to simmer down! Like…
My new life goal is to be able to open a video rental place. There is a very special kind of beauty in being able to browse actual DVDs and not just look at titles on a screen. It’s the reason why I spend so much time browsing DVDs on the shelves at the library. Or why I spend so much time looking at the DVDs at Half Price Books. You find things you didn’t know about. It’s exciting for me to be able to touch and feel things. And that’s sort of a universal sensation. It’s the reason why vinyl outsells digitally downloaded music in the 2010s. To hold something is special. It doesn’t just exist on the internet or in a cloud. It’s real. And you put it in a DVD player or a VCR. And it’s an object that you can cherish. You can take it with you and share it. It doesn’t get taken off of x streaming service at the end of the month. And maybe technology is fleeting and changing and things become obsolete so quickly. But I can still enjoy a VHS tape in my very old VCR. And I still play cassette tapes in my car. And I still spend lots and lots of money on CDs. And I can’t remember the last time I bought a song on iTunes. When you own an object and not just an intangible thing on your phone (which, by the way, is also fleeting technology), it means something to you. And this has nothing to do with nostalgia. This has nothing to do with the hatred of technology. It has everything to do with connection. With caring about something. With bookshelves full of movies and being able to go down the line and choose one. It has to do with the sacredness of an object and the sacredness of an experience.
