Donnie Darko: my computer has achieved consciousness Therapist: it achieved consciousness or you gave it a girl's name and pretended it had a crush on you? Donnie: gave it a girl's name and pretended it had a crush on me

Mini-Review of "Edge of Tomorrow" boxd.it/ec3jpl

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Here’s Iggy Pop’s version from his album “The Idiot”. As I mentioned back when I touched on this album, Bowie wrote the music and Iggy the lyrics. China Girl was my favorite from that album, but this is certainly slower, more raw, than Bowie’s slick dance version. (2/2) youtu.be/9BBAEUOOFKQ?...

Bowie Day 188: “China Girl” (1983) Track 2 of “Let’s Dance” Bowie’s version of the song he wrote with Iggy Pop in “The Idiot”. Video here is… questionable… by today’s standards, but worth knowing that Bowie was dating the actress in it. Well-intentioned. Good song. (1/2) youtu.be/_YC3sTbAPcU?...

Mini-Review of Green Card boxd.it/eb7VE3

Mini-Review of Green Card boxd.it/eb7VE3

Me scootin up next to u to tell u a secret

Bowie Day 187: “Modern Love” (1983) Track 1 of “Let’s Dance” With an atypical three-year gap since his last original album, Bowie declares his intent with the album title. This track sets the tone right away with a poppy bouncy number about love, life and religion. youtu.be/HivQqTtiHVw?...

I covered this song out of sequence back on Christmas Day, but here is where it would go chronologically. (Aired on TV in 1977, released as a single in 1982) bsky.app/profile/chri...

Tonight on #Watching100Movies we take a look at Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds" and Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread".Join us for live movie discussion, right now, on Twitch! twitch.tv/christianael...

You can also watch this episode on YouTube! youtu.be/fq2BiRnEpGE

New podcast episode! So Many Levels - Daggerheart - Beast Feast Session 16 The Golden Nuggets delve deeper into the Plover Caves and discover a cavern as bright as daylight! oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_i...

I’m watching the special features on my “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” blu-ray, and I gotta respect Mark Mothersbaugh, the composer, doing his interview like this.

People say stuff like "one of his rare misses" about Ebert, but this elides what was interesting about Ebert. He had all kinds of bad opinions and reviews you might disagree with! Ebert wasn't cool because he was "right" Ebert was cool because he was thoughtful about entertainment and life!

Bowie Day 186: “The Dirty Song” (1982) Final Track (5) of “Baal” This song is less than a minute long and is full of the sort of fancy-worded debauchery that the title would suggest. I tried to find where I could watch the full play but could only find a handful of clips. youtu.be/PDZ8nftVVgE?...

Now live.

Tonight we return to Blades ‘68 on #SoManyLevels! The swinging scoundrels of inSPECTRE had another rough mission, but at least they came away with a pair of informants. Now it’s time to blow off some steam! Live actual play at 7:30PM Eastern on Twitch! twitch.tv/christianael...

Bowie Day 185: “The Drowned Girl” (1982) Track 4 of “Baal” Sad, but beautifully sung, this song evokes Ophelia with a depiction of the titular girl. Starts off very low and quiet, but then soaring by the end. youtu.be/z0smYeB7Zxc?...

This is a set of frames of the surface of Comet 67P taken by the Rosetta mission on 1 June 2016. The particles in the foreground are bits of dust and ice or cosmic rays effects. The "waterfall" of points moving in the background are stars.

Oh wow really

Bowie Day 184: “Ballad of the Adventurers” (1982) Track 3 of “Baal” An ironic title, because this track is a lament of the hardness of the world, and regret for not simply staying at home with mother. youtu.be/tK3xFnDnHUg?...

Mini-Review of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: boxd.it/e8rhkl

Mini-Review of Return of the Jedi (4K83) boxd.it/e8baeD

Always worth it. youtu.be/JH3mYQaSA7I?...

Mini-Review of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: boxd.it/e8rhkl

Mini-Review of Return of the Jedi (4K83) boxd.it/e8baeD

Currently watching Return of the Jedi (the 4K83, non-Special Edition version), and I think Star Wars really ought to get back to letting aliens speak in their own languages, either with subtitles or without. The universe really loses an opportunity for texture & friction when everyone speaks basic.

Bowie Day 183: “Remembering Marie A.” (1982) Track 2 of “Baal” The play is about a drunken poet named Baal who womanizes throughout his life. In this melancholy number, he realizes he’s forgotten the face of a former love, but remembers a cloud he saw that day. youtu.be/96giyTZS3CI?...

Beast Feast returns on #SoManyLevels! The Golden Nuggets have suffered losses, but they are discovering new things about the Patchwork Knights and the threat to the Lure! Join us for Daggerheart actual play, live on Twitch at 7PM Eastern. twitch.tv/Christianael...

Bowie Day 182: “Baal’s Hymn” (1982) Track 1 of “David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht’s Baal” Bowie performed in a BBC production of Brecht’s first full-length play and this EP contains fuller orchestrations of the five songs in it. This one eulogizes the titular drunken poet. youtu.be/WCnyKbGWzEI?...

Fake photo going around.

There are lots of Under Pressure covers, (including an *ahem* notorious Vanilla Ice “cover”), but this, from one of the musical episodes of “The Magicians” came to mind. It was amazing in context and probably silly and indecipherable if you didn’t watch the show. youtu.be/Z0mfBt3mhtc?...

Bowie Day 181: “Under Pressure” (1981) Single, Credited to Queen and David Bowie An incredible song that only happened because of a spontaneous visit and written/recorded in essentially a single day! A few slightly wonky artifacts of that process don’t obscure the genius. youtu.be/a01QQZyl-_I?...

The world map, but it’s all Africa

Bowie Day 180: “It’s No Game Part 2” (1980) Track 10 (final) of “Scary Monster…” Basically the same song as part 1 but a very different mood. Bowie said it showed that “feelings of anxiousness about society are expressed on different levels and with different intensities” youtu.be/nUlPl6jUD8Q?...

I love how this looks! youtu.be/H-43VeYGiPM

Bowie Day 179: “Because You’re Young” (1980) Track 9 of “Scary Monsters…” I really like the music sound in this one, and the lyrics are good, about an older person wistfully/cynically observing young love, but I feel like the lyrical rhythms are weird? Just me? youtu.be/4v6o28vQ9Pw?...

By comparison, here’s the original. 2/2 youtu.be/wx8dN_R0jJk?...

Bowie Day 178: “Kingdom Come” (1980) Track 8 of “Scary Monsters…” A nice song here, a cover of the original by Tom Verlaine. I will say though, I’m used to Bowie’s covers being more distinct from the originals, but these are pretty similar. 1/2 youtu.be/ydinE5KDzEs?...

Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think

It’s beautiful!

Now seated for: Speed Racer 4K IMAX

Micro-review of Mortal Kombat (2021) boxd.it/e4qZyN

Seeing it tonight! I’m excited!

Mini-Review of Dead Poet's Society. (Warning, I don't like it.) boxd.it/e3vAIf

Mini-Review of Jackie Brown boxd.it/e3LH3v

Mini-Review of Jackie Brown boxd.it/e3LH3v