There are days when I lock in. I think it happens more often then not when it comes to notetaking. As general practice, and when I can, I take notes whenever I'm watching something for the first time. In the past I have done excersises where I asked friends for recommendations as to what I should watch, open at some points to possility of watching shows. I have a bajillion notes in my various catalogues and most of them are on paper, so I'll try to limit what I include here to be a more curated subpopulation of what I have to offer (and that which is readable online / as a digital text).
It's possible my perspective has changed since I produced these notes, so don't take anything I say in them as a duplication of the precise innerworkings of my mind.
my plan is to post scans of my notes i take, for class and other things -- both as images and text docs. while my reading notes... i'm still working on learning how to read. i think for my film notes sometimes their kind of neat to look through. so there here (or will be*) if you want to give 'em a peep ^.^
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