green day should've played this one at the super bowl www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyE...

what i really like about reading old beat generation books is knowing that my life wouldn't have been all that different if i was born 60 years earlier

he's helping me pick a movie

well now i'm just going to take that as a challenge

this interaction has been bouncing around in my head for a couple days now

it was very thoughtful of the trump administration to release the epstein files as an ARG-style true crime game as a way to cheer everyone up after reading the contents of the epstein files

there's a lot to unpack in 50 Cent's music video for Heat

when i read that Bob Fosse movies were inspired by Fellini i assumed that meant like subtle, stylistic references but you can literally watch Nights of Cabiria (1957) without subtitles if you've seen Sweet Charity (1969). or if you speak italian

been listening to this one a bunch today. it's really easy to see why the 70s punks who understood what they were doing as avant-garde would've all gotten dub music right away

i actually like how cold it is but i'm running out of socks that are long enough to wear with boots so we gotta wrap this snow thing up soon

the Melania movie does seem obviously like a way for bezos to bribe the white house. unfortunately for movie fans, a propaganda documentary that only exists as the slop runoff from power-consolidating financial crimes might make it the only Important american movie of the 2020s

casting a white man to play Heathcliff is INSANE. i know a lot of things have since come out to tarnish his legacy, but Bill Cosby was still a major figure in the popularization of African American arts and culture when the role of Dr. Huxtable was written

this has been such a wednesday ass thursday. i can't wait to see what thursday's gonna be like tomorrow

but what about playing some live experimental music with a strobing Judy Garland projected on a loop the whole time?

some walking through the snow music www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNps...

a ghost!

the grocery store was crowded but it was mostly people standing in the middle of the aisles unsure of what they're supposed to be buying for one day of snow

Querelle (1982) was 25 years ahead of its time for having a chiptune freak folk duo playing in that bar

The Mystery of Picasso (1956) gives you a lot of insight into his process as a painter, primarily through an hour analog ipad screen recordings

p*tchfork should paywall its entire site and mercilessly prosecute anyone who takes screenshots. i do not want to see it.

calling out of work sick on a day when you're actually sick feels like such a waste

every time i go to the comic book store i feel like i need to start making some artsy comix zines. it's kinda the medium most suited to my combination of skills and lack of skills with visual art

i was getting real fruity with it in 2016

lily

when you notice how much of the wholesome mainstream entertainment of the early 60s had this barely repressed sexual energy to it then it starts to make sense why everything exploded by the end of the decade

does anyone wanna come over and do this

some things i saw out in the world today

West Side Story (1961) is exactly the kind of musical i don't really like but the scenes where you can tell it was directed by the same guy that did the first Star Trek movie are sick

the magazine cover tableaux in Easter Parade (1948) are such an american predecessor to Godard's Passion or all of renaissance jesus paintings Pasolini did

"My approach is more in the mode of John Cage – you manipulate whatever fate throws your way... I often wonder how people wrote before remote control."

there i am!

literally me

normally i'm very into things that are pretentiously unfunny but the slapstick bits in Two for the Road (1967) just made me feel sad and uncomfortable

future generations will look back at Gold Diggers of 1933 and remember the Great Depression as a psychedelic cyberpunk utopia

i didn't really need a graphic to tell me what type of guy i am

thank you for the heat Mayor Mamdani! keep up the good work🫡

An American in Paris is just as good and maybe even better looking than any of the Donen/Kelly musicals but there aren't any parts that feel like a magic trick. even the ballet is just long and meticulously constructed but i roughly understood how they did it as i was watching it

kicking off the new year by sending my first 311 complaint to Zohran. congratulations on the inauguration Mr Mayor, now let's get my heat fixed!!

found some pics from new years eve 2016/new years day 2016 that are now officially ten years old

i had no idea so many people's primary association with Brigitte Bardot was her racism later in life. my primary association with Brigitte Bardot was when my girlfriend in high school printed out so many naked photos of her on the art class computer that i started getting jealous

Bill Nichols' Ideology and the Image has been a lot of fun to go back to lately, especially for the incredibly thorough chapter on Sternberg and Dietrich in Blonde Venus (which i definitely hadn't seen the first time i read it lol)

oh good, they found a way to make the dr bronner's label even more ominous

my new years resolution is to say "new year new me" for long enough into the new year that it goes from being funny, to not funny, and then to funny again, before finally becoming not funny to anyone but me

this is more or less how i picture myself

the hasidic school buses are driving around like they're drag racing this morning

Robert B Ray on It's A Wonderful Life (1946): "the natural evolution of the movie's early street scenes into the Pottersville vision retroactively revealed the barely controlled noir elements existing just beneath the surface of Classic Hollywood's stock imagery."

Good Sam (1948) is like the version of It's A Wonderful Life that would've been improved by a (killing spree ending)

it's officially christmas time!

me lately