Noticed this morning that Café Tola on Southport has finally changed their Kanye mural. Kinda surprised it took that long. The empanadas are great though.

I just noticed that there’s a new Alice Diop (Saint Omer) short on Mubi this week. mubi.com/en/us/films/...

It's not my imagination, but God of War Ragnarok is totally de-gored compared to even the last PS4 game, right?

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

*Guy desperately trying to go viral* Man, when you're going to gas up your car, we all got that favorite pump, right? Second-from-the-right plz! Haha *Chappelle suddenly getting serious voice* The little arrow beside the gas light tells you which side of the car has the gas flap.

THROTUS

Finally cracked and turned down the combat difficulty in God of War: Ragnarok. I blocked an attack and it launched some random mini-game I've never seen before, which is insane because this game is literally 15% tutorials. They may as well text me a PIN code every time I hit L1.

American politics allow for the most beautiful possibilities.

We need reeducation camps for anyone who considers this productive or desirable.

How lazy am I, I'm able to perfectly emulate Onimusha on my laptop but I just spent $10 to buy it for my PS5 instead because then I can play it while sitting on my sofa.

Sadly, I believe this Steam Machine console is something I will buy just so I can seamlessly play old RPGs I intially bought for my SteamDeck on the TV. It would also make me more likely to start buying more intensive games on Steam. It's a smart product for lazy gamers like me.

Purity Ring have a new album? Boy, that name takes me back.

Ti West's Pearl contains a broadly incomprehensible set of referents but I guess it's interesting to learn its primary source all along is Damiano's hardcore film, Memories Within Miss Aggie (X marks the spot!). Not sure that helps it any, but worth noting.

People love that "I'm never leaving this site" format on Twitter but this post is over here.

"Issue"

If I was independently wealthy I'd probably travel a bit more but the biggest shift would be my knowledge about JRPGs.

Fuck, I am in the can for this all the fucking way. I'll buy it release day. I've been waiting.

Gentle reminder that I am going to be on TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES (!!!!) on Monday for an evening of programming that we put together. I hope you'll be able to tune in. Love y'all.

Great movie! Reminds me I gotta dig deeper into Gosha's work. Gotta get to his larger Yakiza dramas in the 70s and 80s. Nakadai remains a regular fixture, I believe.

Feeling upbeat and cheerful so I'm listening to Darkthrone. This is probably normal?

Controversial opinion but this movie is actually kinda low-key good.

la commune is one of my favourite films ever & you can watch Universal Clock, a documentary about his methods with footage of la commune's making here www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS7v...

Like Forbidden Photos, this has strong production elements that make for a very fine time. But similarly, it lacks a setpiece that might tie things together. But if Photos was lacking plot, then this has a comical amount of twists. There's red herrings and a literal fishmonger.

Why do they keep reusing existing movie titles when they could be going buckwild like this instead?

Throwing on Death Walks on High Heels. Watched this years ago but don't remember much other than some really weird blackface.

Surely all America needs to clear out its national debt are a few wins on safe, short odd sports bets. Just put a billion here and there and if you lose more just tack it on until you claw it back. Maybe put the final $50T on the Superbowl and get every American really involved.

I mentioned that Guillermo Del Toro makes bad movies on the other site and I've got one death threat and several other insults. Can't beat that juice.

Pope Leo's fifth favorite movie is In the Realm of the Senses.

"Rolloni" sounds like they're making fun of Italians.

Main thing I remember from this is an extended sequence of the most baffling blackface I've ever seen.

Throwing this one out to the hivemind. Some time in the mid-2000s I had an MP3 of a rock song called something like "ascending/descending at 10,000 meters per second." I feel like it was credited to Feeder or Filter or Seether or something like that but I can't find such a song.

Just noticed on an old VHS that Robert Patrick was wearing a NIN shirt when he was 3D scanned for the T-1000. That would have been 1990, so he was proudly supporting his brother Richard Patrick, who was in a new band called Nine Inch Nails at the time.

Bring back original songs for pornos. Stop cutting corners Brazzers, challenge some dude to write 1,000 smooth jazz songs about step-sisters.

Devil in Miss Jones is remarkable btw. An insane artistic immolation when easy-street was knocking. Deep Throat opened up the world for hardcore by being breezy fun, so Damiano decided the next test should obviously be Sawdust & Tinsel levels of misery with no intermediate step.

Gerard Damiano after having, against all reasonable expectation, punched hardcore pornography through into the mainstream with Deepthroat: "Okay, so before we get to the sex the woman's gonna kill herself. Yeah, don't worry, the scene will be real slow and legitimately mournful."

Does her husband work for The NYT? Is this the only was she can talk to him about their marriage?

Oh, are politics bad? I wouldn't know. I've been watching the movies.

Might have to switch down the difficulty on God of War: Ragnarok. I'm dying more than in a Soulslike. I'm struggling to adapt to the combat which is very hectic but also flimsy. Lots of enemies and every one takes 20 attacks to kill. It's simultaneously boring and busy.

Apparently today I decided on a double-bill about two women in their 40s saying "to hell with expectatins" and reclaiming their lives.

Started God of War: Ragnarok. Will take some adjusting to the combat, which feels a bit flimsy and button-bashy for now but also I'm not doing very well with it. Forgot how everything's punctuated by long speeches that sound like they were written for prestige TV (non-complimentary).

He was probably giving Broderick shit for killing those people in Ireland.

Got some work to do so listening to this again. Might be the album from the last decade I've listened to the most times tbh. It's very lovely but also fits perfectly into the background while doing other stuff.

Had a conversation earlier this week where I asserted Slipknot aren't really nü-metal but I didn't really know what they are. Turns out it's "Groove Metal" which is "thrash metal slowed down" which is... metal? Also apparently Pantera are THE groove metal band? News to me.

My MIL could not understand why we'd ever move to crime-ridden Chicago so it was fun, when she talked about a lovely trip to St. Louis, that it has a significantly higher homicide rate.

MTG is a racist, conspiracy-pedaling crackpot but she seems perceptive enough to realize she's never going to be welcomed into MAGA's inner sanctum so she is peeling off to bet on the opposition. It is pathetic that the media will let her do it without even a struggle.

Celebrity Traitors kind've a great variant because it becomes a purely psychological game. Earning the money for charity removes all those icky questions of class and privilege that dog regular seasons of reality TV (but maybe enrich them too).

That might be giving the Democrats more credit than they're due but Bannon does seem to understand the gravity of the moment. This is an illegal power grab and if you don't finish it, then you're just a criminal.

This is the one for history books.

Somewhat unrelated but very funny to see all the tacky gold decals Trump's stuck to the walls.

I need LB back up because I forgot to log Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion. It's by no means a great movie, but is full of fabulous wardrobe & production design. Also, people are constantly pouring themselves a drink at home, but somehow always in a different location.