Jim Willis

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Check out my album Set It All Down on your favorite streaming service.

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Letterboxd

• Idiocracy, 2006 – ★★★★
  November 9, 2024
  Mike Judge doesn't disappoint. Really timely movie, too.
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, 2024 – ★★★½
  October 31, 2024
  +1 for how the Banana boat song got incorporated. Also Winona and Keaton are still great
• The Killer's Game, 2024 – ★★½
  October 19, 2024
  barely worth having on in the background while I did something else.
• Jackpot!, 2024 – ★★★★
  October 13, 2024
  John Cena!
• The 4:30 Movie, 2024 – ★★★★
  October 6, 2024
  So local.
• Rebel Ridge, 2024 – ★★★★
  September 21, 2024
  Like a good John Grisham book
• Civil War, 2024 – ★★★★
  September 7, 2024
  If you want to get super stressed out
• 3:10 to Yuma, 2007 – ★★★★
  September 6, 2024
  Brutal and honest. Great movie.
• El Pepe: A Supreme Life, 2018 – ★★★★
  September 2, 2024
  Made me aware of how little I know of geopolitics and socialism.
• What Happened, Miss Simone?, 2015 – ★★★★
  August 23, 2024
  Follow up to watching the Montreux performance

Reading Notes

• Read: The Imperfectionist: How Not to Freak Out, Part Two
  November 15, 2024
  The antidote to all of this, in the broadest terms, is *more reality*, more immersion in the finite here and now: more writing on paper; […]
• Read: Recording: After the Election – Four Ways We Can Respond
  November 15, 2024
  “Under the worst conditions, what’s the most important thing to have?” He replied: “Friends.” Source: Recording: After the Election – Four Ways We Can Respond […]
• Read: Mud Boots of Empathy in Spain
  November 15, 2024
  Spain’s unity at this moment is from the bottom up. Or, as Spanish professional soccer player Ferran Torres wrote on social media, “The people are […]
• Read: Vision Con
  February 27, 2024
  Unable, then, to see the world because I have forgotten the way of being in the world that enables vision in the deepest sense, I […]
• Read: I Made This
  February 22, 2024
  Suppose Bob writes an email to Sue, who has no existing business relationship with Bob, asking her to draw a picture of a polar bear […]

Saved Links

• What Wildly Specific POV Playlists Tell Us About How We Listen Today
  November 21, 2024
  Whether you’re looking to escape into a cottage-core wonderland, enact fiery revenge on a deadbeat ex, or cosplay as a bigtime magazine editor, there’s a POV playlist for you. — Direct link
• tree.fm – Tune Into Forests From Around The World
  November 19, 2024
  — Direct link
• moodeaudio.org
  November 18, 2024
  Audiophile streamer for the wonderful Raspberry Pi family of single board computers and DIY audio community. — Direct link
• Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky – The Verge
  November 18, 2024
  Bluesky offers a lot of unique features like algorithmic feeds and custom moderation that can make for a rich, in-control experience for users. — Direct link
• How humans and AI can make music together – The Verge
  November 18, 2024
  Stanford professor and Smule co-founder Ge Wang explains how computers can make music, and the future of creativity in an AI world, on The Vergecast. #music #ai — Direct link
• Shortcuts Archive – MacStories
  November 13, 2024
  Good iOS shortcuts resource #personal_technology — Direct link
• Non-profit newsrooms that speak truth to power
  November 10, 2024
  Objective news — Direct link
• One Practical Thing: Protect Information
  November 10, 2024
  One practical thing you can do in as much depth as you like, identify a particular area of information that you care about or feel is important and protect it. Whether it's critical public data, old abandoned websites, or niche community content that you think is worth preserving, the information is worth saving. — Direct link
• Kalyanamittas: We'll See – A Zen Story
  November 10, 2024
  Taoist farmer story — Direct link
• Marathon | TV is better with friends | Marathon
  November 4, 2024
  Like letterboxed but for tv shows — Direct link

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