Bizaarely, turns out this is actually Bo Burnhams house where he filmed the 2001 pandemic special "inside". I was just wandering around west hollywood on the zillow map and picked it
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i've actually restarted my dvd collection in the last few months after selling them all years ago. i also bought a dvd upscaler since none of my devices play disks anymore. its like doomsday prepping but for when they make streaming only accessible to billionaires which i fully believe will happen
The most depressing and dystopian thing I did during the pandemic was to hook my Vr headset up to zillow and walk around peoples houses in full 3d and then I'd pick books from their bookshelves and then download pdfs of the books and read them. Got me a big fat tick on the DSM5 that did
And then I started thinking, what if that's what ghosts are? Me in the pandemic, wandering around a strangers bookshelf in VR, in my jocks and a headset in Limerick. And then some poor fucker in beverly hills three years ago has to sell his house because books keep flying off the shelf.
When I go full turbo autism. Specifically, when I'm trying to avoid burnout by doing things that give me intense focus and joy. I wander around property sites like zillow, usually in the middle of nowhere. Then I pick a house and research everything about the immediate area, from history to news
This was what lead to my big theory that japanese knotweed grows in areas with cheap houses that once had industry shut down by Reagan. It naturally thrives near japanese volcanos with toxic metal soils. In America, it now grows where industry polluted the soil, vacant land, no jobs, cheap houses
I spotted that pattern during a bout of turbo autism. But then afterwards, went looking for evidence, and yes. It's a thing. Japanese knotweeds invasive growth is very much tied in with neoliberal deindustrialisation and heavy metal polution mimicking japanese volcanic soils
Reminds me of a book “The Mushroom at the End of the World”. It’s about a rare expensive mushroom which grows in dying forests. Talks about how we can learn from the economy that springs up wherever the mushroom appears.
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just as a wee hobby