JUST FOR YOU: some thoughts about bo burnham's inside (Patreon)

hello again. less than a week until our lease is up and we still haven't found our destination. however! we've got our contingencies in place. we know where we'll wind up if we don't get a place in time, which at this point seems all but inevitable. our plans have adjusted, become a touch more realistic, and as a result i'm feeling a lot less doomed than i have for the last few months.

anyway, i decided to take a break between packing and looking to put together a themed care package, of sorts. back in maybe june of 2021 i recorded an impromptu twenty-ish minute aside about bo burnham's inside that i intended to cut together into a short little review video shannon strucci-style. i only got about four minutes into cutting the audio down before i realized that this could only really work as the intro to a much longer video. i've taken shots at it since, but i'm just not satisfied with it as an argument. and you may recall that i spent a lot of this summer writing over 150,000 words of prose. so uh. my priorities were elsewhere.

so yeah, on a whim today i decided to put some footage overtop this audio, cut out all the longest silences, and just ship it as is as a backer exclusive. beyond around minute 5 i haven't revisited any of this audio since i recorded it and have no memory of what i said, which of course absolves me of any responsibility for having said it. a ghost made this.

and i mean, i haven't given y'all free shit in a while, so here you go. wait. wait, no, it's not free, because you literally pay me. uh.

also attached to this post is an abandoned script for a version of this video that probably won't exist as written for reasons that are, erm, self-evident in the text. i wrote a separate introduction at the start of that script to contextualize some of my er, uh, hahaha, more provocative arguments. it's the kind of thing any twitter-using adult in their right mind would know better than to share, which signals to me that i absolutely should post it. if anyone gets mad that i use the r-slur a couple times, well, then i probably will turn this script unaltered into a whole-ass video just out of spite.

hah, have i mentioned that i'm pissed off about basically everything right now? love a bit of impotent harmless outraged rhetoric.

anyway, here's this stuff (whatever it is), warts and all. there's more i could say about why i'm posting this stuff for y'all, and maybe i will if anyone asks, but for now i'm gonna leave it to speak for itselfs. that's a plural "itself." i could rewrite that sentence