Squiggle Porn, Tarkovsky, and the Death of the Standalone Story

• 16:11Tim's first sexual experience was watching squiggle porn — scrambled pay-per-view with a Japanese girl in a bath — and learning by instinct in a chair.
• 17:01Growing up means abandoning childhood media obsessions and consuming art instead — read James Joyce, listen to Beethoven, watch Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood.
• 17:32Watching Star Wars repeatedly is retarded; the original 1977 film should have been seen once, and that's it.
• 17:50Everything is rehashed nostalgia now, though Kill Bill 2 remains fun — and Tarantino's original plan to make a third film 20 years later with Viveca Fox hunting Uma Thurman was cool when it was new.
• 18:24Sequels have no charm anymore because there's no suspense or mystery — audiences know exactly what franchises will deliver.
• 18:36Apocalypse Now doesn't need a sequel; the story ends and nobody cares what Sheen does when he gets home.
• 18:58Stories used to have a beginning, middle, and end — now everything is an ongoing saga like soap operas, which were always considered trash.
• 19:20Soap operas and telenovelas never won primetime Emmys or Oscars because everyone knew they were garbage; America turned that model into prestige television.

Star WarsApocalypse NowMarlon BrandoStar TrekQuentin TarantinoIvan's ChildhoodMartin SheenAndrei TarkovskyUma ThurmanKill Bill Vol. 2Viveca A. FoxJames Joyce