the one thing these people cannot countenance is being Accurately Described. all of this is happening because the internet provided a means for people to Accurately Describe them to their faces. and they lost their fucking minds

Damn, this was the closest I’ve gotten so far, I wonder if the lack of defensive stats for 60s players brought down the overall record

There was a substitute teacher at my high school who would just play this movie whenever he didn’t understand the class he was supposed to teach

The Firewater album was a fun find, but I still have to go with Life Without Buildings

the only radical center i respect is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"in general we are still commanded by people who managed to live through the years 1931-9 without even discovering that Hitler was dangerous" really hits

this kinda of stuff should just be way more stigmatized and socially unacceptable to believe across the board. i'm sick of the "only my problems are real problems, unlike these people's problems" attitude. there's no excuse - anything but solidarity across the board is completely unacceptable.

They’re trying to normalize the idea of a national sales tax to end progressive taxation, and I’m already sick about the number of people who are going to fall for it because they hate the idea of other people enjoying anything.

maybe if we make students more like cattle ranchers they too can get millions in government subsidies for destroying the environment and throw huge shitfits if anyone inconveniences them in the slightest

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

Probably either The Leopard or Tree Of Life, with Eternity and a Day as a close third

Aw man, Strokin’ has to be the best comedy song by a non-comic musician, right?

Bright Flight is pretty easily my favorite album in this entire tournament (and also, on some days at least, my favorite album, period), so not a hard choice today

This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it

Kinda funny that they turned a color photograph into black-and-white for this.

amazing local journalism here

we all have our vices and i'm a hypocrite for judging them like this but "bringing back smoking" is an idea periodically floated by the dumbest people alive whose only real belief is edgelordism. i am totally unwilling to hedge on or reconsider this opinion

What’s a movie in your top 25 unlikely to be in anyone else’s? I’ve got a few, so let’s go with A Cuban Fight Against Demons, just because it’s so damn hard to find

There are a bunch I’ve watched at home that often, so I’ll go with what I believe is the only movie I’ve seen in theaters six times, The Turin Horse

we all know I have no life, so:

Dafoe’s agent: “A new script arrived for you, it’s called Werwulf” Dafoe: “I’ll take the part” Agent: “But don’t you even want to know how the title is spelled?” Dafoe: “No”

I liked the first half of the Les Savy Fav album more than I expected, but the second half has really turned into a slog. Gotta go with Pulp here, even if it’s not their best record

Honestly, good for Cappadonna

I think right now my top five is: Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World Crimes of the Future Killers of the Flower Moon I Saw The TV Glow Showing Up

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

We’re so used to calling the various tech oligarchs and Trump pigs Bond villains but Eric Adams is unique in that he is the only irl Venture Bros villain.

This is it. The perfect sports blooper.

I was a bit mixed on Borgli’s last couple films, but I liked The Drama a lot. It would probably be better served if we could look at it as an amusing character study instead of a piece of political discourse, but that feels like too high a hope

𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧: And then Kim Gordon goes "Have you heard the new Updog record?" and I go "What's Updog?" 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞: Unbelievable. 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧: I thought Updog was one of those hipster Matador bands. 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞: Wait weren't they on K Records? 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲: Thurston also called me Moby by mistake.

forgot the most important of the genre

I never really got into Cake despite all my friends liking them when we were 13, and this Margo Guryan album is a very pleasant surprise from an artist I knew nothing about. Vote Margo!

Last night I finished César Aira’s Festival, which is instantly one of my favorite novels about film and cinephile culture. As always, Aira’s absurd prolificness (this was one of at least five novels he published in 2011) makes the depth of insight even more impressive

right and the secondary part of this which maybe seems frivolous but is still worth mentioning: harry potter is not guernica. it’s a not-very-well-written commercial fantasy franchise for children. there are dozens of better alternatives

What you think of the quality of HP, whether you think it's bad or good or embarrassing or important, doesn't matter. What matters is its author is making money off it to funnel into stripping trans people of their rights. I'd give up literally anything if that was the consequence of loving it.

“Fuck!!!!” - guy who was looking forward to viewing Disney-licensed OpenAI videos in his Disney+ app, who also poured his coffee on his lap while checking his watch

This is my theory Current Moment. Huge swathes of the MSM really really wanted a 10-15% shift to the right relative to Peak Woke, in large part because they were very extremely afraid of the consequences of gender equality as seen in MeToo. They thought Trump II would be the vehicle for that....

It’s crazy to me that Amazon doesn’t have a US version of Last One Laughing. It takes one day to film the whole season! They could make one for every niche comedy scene in the country

it will be interesting to see who will win

the same way eliminating car dealers, realtors and other parasitic right-wing industries needs to be a goal of the left for its own survival, eliminating chriorpactors, the supplements industry and other quack medicine needs to be on the agenda too

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man

A City of Sadness! www.indiewire.com/news/general...

this is all that Dune says about Guild Navigators. Lynch read this tiny offhand mention and chirped in 1940s newscaster voice "Hot diggety dog! A chance to show a big inhuman mutation? Folks are gonna go razz-ma-tazz for this guy!"

Your move, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

Inherent Vice Phantom Thread Master Punch Drunk Love OBAA Boogie Nights TWBB Magnolia Licorice Pizza It’s been too long since I’ve seen Hard Eight to rank it

What if in 20 years an actor named LeBron B. James comes along and people spend weeks arguing about whether him or Michael B. Jordan made better films

Nathan Fielder voice: The plan: restore moviegoing as a ubiquitous component of American culture through a decade-long lobbying effort to spread legal access to gambling so app-addicted freaks will drastically bump the ratings of an increasingly niche awards show

This was the first time in years that I saw all the BP nominees, here’s my final ranking 1. Marty Supreme 2. One Battle 3. Secret Agent 4. Sinners 5. Sentimental Value 6. Bugonia 7. Train Dreams 8. Frankenstein 9. F1 10. Hamnet

I analyzed the Proud Boys donor list. The most common occupation was real estate (realtor, mortgage broker) — the same parasitic class that was over-represented among Jan 6th rioters.