If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Criterion Collection B&N sale! The damage: * Rohmer’s Tales of the Seasons * Altered States * The Phantom Carriage * I Wanna Hold Your Hand * The Burmese Harp * Fires on the Plain * The Fugitive Kind * Code unknown

Today’s Springsteen top 10: 1. Thunder Road 2. Highway Patrolman 3. Dancing in the Dark 4. Badlands 5. Open All Night 6. Racing in the Streets 7. I’m On Fire 8. The Promised Land 9. State Trooper 10. Hungry Heart

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Are we doing capitalism right or

Desperately need a genuine Movie after sitting through the latest franchise nonsense, so I’m spinning up the greatest action film ever made.

I haven’t seen the new Springsteen biopic, but the magnificent re-release of NEBRASKA has got me fully immersed in The Boss yet again.

The perfect opening image for today's classes on CAPITALIST REALISM.

Be right back, just going to try and catch the bus for free… Mamdani’s policies are not normal in Europe no matter what one Dutch dude said in his newsletter (yeah that’s the source) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

THE DEAD ZONE (dir. David Cronenberg, 1983)

This evening I'll give a public lecture on the biblical epic, and how it mutated into the modern blockbuster — followed by a special screening of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956). filmtheaterhilversum.nl/film/episch-...

Woke up to find these incredible back-cover blurbs for my new FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING book in my e-mail. What a way to start the day! Endlessly grateful to @markbould.bsky.social and @fraserelliott.bsky.social. 🙏🏻 "Read or die," LMAO. 🤣

We need no more evidence that he's a dead-eyed, dead-hearted sociopath, but we can at least add this photo to the mountainous heap of it.

I’ve been watching the first season of Mission: Impossible, which was 28 (!) weekly episodes – most of them quite good. May that pendulum swing back.

One of the best to ever do it, as the kids say. If you've never seen A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY or YI YI, splash out on the Criterion editions at the first opportunity. You won't regret it.

Werner Herzog voice: “I’ve seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence. Story, acting, everything. They look completely dead. They are stories, but they have no soul…They are empty and soulless.”

Teaching PARASITE this week alongside Mark Fisher’s CAPITALIST REALISM. For tonight’s viewing (my tenth, I think) I’m switching it up again and watching the black-and-white version.

What's notable about vile shit like this is that they never have the courage to stand up and actually defend the proposition they are oh-so-provocatively putting forward with the framework. They love to be "just asking questions" so they can *suggest* what they're too craven to actually argue.

Oh my goodness: BFI just announced a wonderful five-film box set collecting major works by Frederick Wiseman, coming in January! hmv.com/Store/Film-T...

Mamdani said bring me all the smart and powerful women!

It's kind of cathartic to just put this on repeat

"Left-wing users saw almost the same amount of left-wing + right-wing content, even though they only followed left-wing accounts. But only 14% of the political content sent to our right-leaning users was left-wing. The neutral users saw twice as much right-wing content as left-wing content." #Xgate

INJECT THIS INTO MY VEINS 🥇

From the Guardian. Cartoonist Ella Baron.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

When I finally brought up Mamdani’s election victory 15 minutes before the end of today’s classes on Gramsci and political theory, a spontaneous cheer went up across the classroom. 📣

One of the things he's doing is teaching people again how government works since apparently it seems both our education system and news media have long ago stopped informing anyone about this.

So "tax the fuck out of the rich" turns out to be a winning message.

I've waited my whole life to hear a New York mayor say things like this

Got the same mail today and politely told them to fuck off into the moon.

Please explain to me again how supporting trans rights makes a politician unelectable. 🤔

Had to share this from twitter just because

I have been to a lot of political rallies. A lot of rallies of all types. Held by multiple political parties, even, including ones I disagreed with. Beyonce sang at one of them. The only thing remotely close to this was Obama in ‘08.

Gramsci 101

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT ❤️

What a day to be teaching classes on Gramsci’s notion of political hegemony. Optimism of the will!! 👊🏻

Today is a good day to remember that Obama betrayed and abandoned the countless grassroots activists, community organizers and volunteers who got him elected. It didn't have to be that way, and Mamdani at least promises to do things differently.

I literally shrieked when pathbreaking American socialist and labor organizer was the first person Zohran quoted. ✊🏻

say it louder for the folks in the back: DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

Basically

"Years from now, let our only regret be that this day took so long to come." Zohran's victory speech is electrifying from start to finish. Hope is a powerful drug! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQT...

NYC on fire last night.

Don't get me wrong, it's just one win, it's NYC etc but symbolically this can help fuel the fight back and show that the alternative to the far right does not have to be found in its mainstream enablers and in the "serious" status quo that's fuelling the polycrisis

Pouring one out for my mayor Zohran ♥️ Mamdani with this timeless Steve Earle anthem on repeat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=75H8...

"TURN THE VOLUME UP!" Quietly sobbing while taking in this powerful beacon of hope emanating from my very own city. ♥️

Assalam Alaikum, Mayor Mamdani!