Rogge Report - August #1

Thank you to all three of my friends that have typed there emails into a website with no content. I promise I will not sell them! I will explain in just a minute why I wanted to make this little thing, but I assure you it is not any kind of business venture, more just a way of personal expression in a way that is communal (and ensures that I will hold myself to complete it at a high standard).

I want to make each report pretty condensed and easy to read; and I want to release a new copy every other week. The goals of the project is that a) I will become a more confident and more entertaining writer, b) I will have some time in my week to work though some of my thoughts and, c) I will write something that my friends (shout-out Carl) will enjoy reading.

If you read this let me know what you think about the contents and the format if you have any feedback. And thank you!

My summer semester ended last Sunday. I took two of the easiest online classes I’ve ever taken, I failed one and I passed the other with a 70%.

I think about what I’ve done in the summer and it’s not all miserable, but it does feel a bit disheartening (despite believing I have my future under control).

My fondest memory was probably the day when I got on the wrong bus, I ended up walking for two hours to get back on another bus, just so I could meet up with my friend Jordan. It was blazing hot and miserable, but most of the other days were spent inside.

Some legitimate joy was had, mostly in good conversation and in films, but a sinking part of was spent in what one might describe as rot.

Throughout the summer academics should’ve been my top priority, and this task shouldn’t have been difficult for me. I could’ve passed my failed class had I written one essay. Three months and I didn’t write the one essay.

I pushed it off and I pushed it off and I pushed it off; till now I’ve pushed it to another year and another $900 class.

That being said, I’m still not concerned about my academic success going forward. I have savings from my grandmother. I am 100% confident grade-wise I will bounce back and succeed immediately.

Introspectively this idea that I’m unbothered by such a thing really makes me think about the privilege I have. I’m in a recession, I have no job, I’ve failed my one responsibility, my family is stressed; yet I feel so comfortable with my place in the world that I am spending my time today writing.

I spent three months actively not writing and now today I’m writing to you. All summer I wasn’t able to write, but like magic, it seems I can today. That makes this a very good day, because I’ve always wanted to write.

I want to be smart, I want to write, and read, and think, and engage. I want to be smart so I can make smart decisions, so I can do something “good”. I want to be so smart that I take care of my family, even take care of others. In an earnest way I want to do the best I can.

How I’ve come to see it now (but subject to change), Investing in myself socially and intellectually is how I see doing my best.

Doing my best today meant writing a little bit. That’s why I’m writing to you today.

I’ve been listening to this album a lot and I would greatly recommend it as my favorite high-energy project of the year. Honningbarna is a Norwegian post-hardcore band and they are at the height of the genre with this project, in my opinion. Constantly textually interesting and varied throughout (great noise!). I find it dance-able and it has been good to walk to. Everything I could want out of hardcore album.

It is my understanding that the United States is the country that benefited the most from World War II, they won, made a lot of money manufacturing, and there wasn’t any warfare on American soil (except for that one time). The rest of Europe and Japan were pretty ravished, the States’ economic prowess put them in the dominate place of political power, and the States proceeded to outlast the USSR. Thank you for the question Carl.

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After watching this film I read the Sally Jane Black review and she said that if anyone dead or alive could direct the Star Wars sequels, it should be the director of this film, Andrzej Żuławski.

I think that is such a succinct way to summarize what makes this film good. (She is most definitelyhttps://letterboxd.com/ApichatpongFan/ my favorite film reviewer and definitely an inspiration to start writing the Rogge Report. I really believe she has never once changed her opinion or been swayed by what other people think because all of her reviews free spoken and with out care for any critical acclaim or popular conceptions. You could miss-construe it for the perfect machine to start hate threads.)

On the Silver Globe really is my favorite Dune/Star Wars type sci-fi movie and I don’t feel like I have the genre vocabulary to describe exactly what makes this classification (I think it’s a space epic?).

It’s hard for me to approach a dissection of it because it is all very impressive in all aspects, I love the whole world, the set, the costumes, the story, and the meta story about how the film was originally censored and partially destroyed.

It is grand telling this it’s fake history that is deeply engaging in all aspects. It’s doesn’t feel empty as many sc-fi epics are (to me). It’s a very well written allegory for religion, and scene to scene it always has incredible dialogue. It’s very easy to go wrong with a film this bizarre, but it is consistently great and never falls through.

Thank you for reading! Have a good fortnight!

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