Really excited to see how GDT handles the “Puttin on the Ritz” scene

Bébé!

As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.

Watching Fool for Love which honestly isn't that great but "Altman film with Kim Basinger & Harry Dean Stanton" isn't something I'm going to skip. The contained-set ambiance feels a little like a rural version of Trouble in Mind & the opening credits revealing it's a Golan-Globus project amused me.

if you believe fully autonomous robot butlers are just over the horizon you are actually one of the dumbest motherfuckers alive and we should take your money from you so we can put it towards something worthwhile

By the way. I’m not even really arguing with Chipman. I just think corporations acting like population is the population of 30-40 years ago is so normal that we need constant reminders of how insane it is in light of what and how much has changed.

stumbling across LABYRINTH for the first time in god knows how long, it’s just honestly incredible how much better practical effects hold up compared to digital or computer-generated effects. i am sure there’s nothing about AI we can learn here.

It Finally Happened To Me: I've seen a Johnnie To film I just didn't like at all, PTU. In fairness I did pick it as the first to knock off my "watch before they leave Criterion at month's end" list because the synopsis looked the least interesting to me so, you know, they can't all be winners.

if you saw this pup take a steak no you didn’t

Look man you can do what you want, but if someone tells you "I think Sabrina Carpenter looks like she's coming this way with a gun!" you should listen.

Letterboxd Friday #LastFourWatched 📽️: An ill-fated Purple Rain sequel that, I'm sorry, I liked more than its predecessor; a melancholy slice-of-life indie; a "comfortable bourgeoise in a repressive regime" tale not nearly as good as The Official Story; a fantastical blaxploitation favorite.

Good morning

every women’s professional sports league is like trans lives matter we love everybody i will die for my gay teammates and every male sports league is like text WIN to access your draft kings account and get fifty dollars toward your first parlay.

Ok so basically the main thing you need to understand about Gamera is that he’s a friend to all children

Today I watched The Station Agent & besides his being a wonderful actor sometimes I can’t believe so many men are monomaniacal about being “alpha” tall when I know I’m far from the only woman going, “four-five schmour-five, Peter Dinklage is HOT.” I’m five-one anyway, hardly much daylight there.

I usually think of Ben Whishaw as the biggest winner of my personal “actors I like the most with unerring instincts for projects I like the least” sweepstakes but actually that’s wrong, it’s Rami Malek.

I'll save you a lot of reading: unless Mamdani starts taking money from Turks and roasting leprechauns - and even then - there is no way in hell Stefanik is going to win New York a year after this election in the city.

Shirley Jackson would despise me. Dodie Bellamy & Nan Goldin would mock me as a provincial hick. Patrick Modiano just wouldn't want to talk to some random American. Patricia Highsmith, let's not even go there because that'd be a mutual wide-awake nightmare.

the jury ate sandwiches for lunch today before wrapping up deliberations lol bsky.app/profile/ryan...

Most people, fools really, mistake the politics of Parks & Recreation as neoliberal. But it's clear to the enlightened few who read it dialectically, that the show is nothing less than a full-throated endorsement of the teachings of the Revolutionary Communist Party and its chairman, Bob Avakian

"This is a vibrant place, brimming with hope...neighbors from every community showing up for each other by stocking food banks...every day people standing up to guard the most vulnerable among us"

I’m sitting in the dentist’s waiting room for the biannual cleaning & speaking of how famously politically reactionary the average dentist is, for the first time ever they have signs up that they’re taking donations for a food drive so the GOP has definitely really fucked up.

Pandemic’s height I saw people talk about skipping the big family Thanksgiving because of relatives ranting & refusing to take precautions & enjoying the peace & quiet so much they never went back, so if planes really are grounded through November could be some unforeseen consequences, again.

walking to the east everything is beautiful walking to the west everything is beautiful walking to the north everything is beautiful walking to the south everything is beautiful Jim Pepper - Witchi-Tai-To

the thing about land acknowledgements and equity centered instruction paired with deep social science learning, data analysis, art history analysis, is that my students smoke every assessment. they do deep learning. teaching history without discussing culture is impossible.

The view from the Cliff Dwellers

If there is no Tao, then why Tao-shaped?

I’m in the weeds of the Congressional fights over the 13th/14th/15th Amendments & Jesus H. Christ, Andrew Johnson truly deserves that historians’ consensus as the worst or second worst president in US history. You couldn’t pick a man more utterly wrong for that moment if you created him in a lab.

Boy, you ever spend the whole day starting right out of bed running around doing errands & hitting deadlines & cooking a whole week’s food & here & there & all the rest of it & then you make the mistake of sitting down.

20-ish woman getting a passport photo at my post office heard a modem dial-up sound (a ringtone?—couldn’t see behind the desk) & got super excited, “That’s the sound old computers used to make, right? I never heard it before!” & no, I didn’t become the Cryptkeeper, I just thought it was very cute.

I wrote about House filmmaker Nobuhiko Ôbayashi's nouvelle vague-inspired biker movie His Motorbike, Her Island, in which young people tend to be more jealous of (and possibly even attracted to) motorbikes than people. New Blu-ray on Cult Epics loaded with extras. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

The vibes near the central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library are immaculate today.

mayor zohran sir please immediately dispatch the boppers, gramercy riffs, turnbull ac's, hi-hats, electric eliminators, rogues, lizzies, orphans, punks and warriors to chicago to join the fight against ice

Eat shit, every last one of you racist, howling Islamophobic ghouls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7CI...

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Spending this fine evening watching Graffiti Bridge on Tubi. All style. Pure vibes. George Clinton. Mavis Staples. Love it already.

“Hello there. I am a kitten. I would like to talk to you about diabetes, and what you can do to prevent it.”

I very rarely block anyone on Letterboxd but boy, I go looking for reviews of an Argentine film & see a rant about how there are "two sides" to the Dirty War & whyyyy must everything be so politicized, that's an easy one. Are you surprised they had an anime avatar, because somehow I'm not.

Today's newsletter is about The Bottle Tapes, an incredible new 6CD set of live avant-jazz recordings, and about the difference between the New York and Chicago music scenes: burningambulance.substack.com/p/the-bottle...

Remembering Peter Watkins … www.criterion.com/current/post...

(me, lurking in an alley with a copy of Testament & emerging as a random pedestrian walks by) Psst! Hey buddy, you wanna get really, REALLY depressed?

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

Anyway, maybe one of the major architects of all this dropping dead on Election Day is a hopeful sign from the universe

My closet is skeleton-free and I conduct myself like someone who lives in a society, and these assholes cannot stop trying to wreck it. These freaks. They tell their kids to give my kids a hard time for not being Christian. Look what your life is with Reverend Billy Tim calling the shots! Fuck you!

Less than 24 hours before Andrew Cuomo is, I hope, consigned to the dustbin of political history I recommend this documentary to you for no apparent reason. Airing free until the end of the month on PBS.

These Chicago restaurants are offering free or discounted meals during SNAP pause: blockclubchi.co/47DM5Ys

Because the timeline mentioned it listening to the Stay Awake album for the first time in decades & I miss when you could successfully pitch "what if we get Los Lobos & the Replacements & Sun Ra & I don't know, Syd Straw to all do lounge-jazz Disney song covers & Ken Nordine does the intro & outro?"