this is a hella good looking chicken

Jaws. I've had the opportunity to experience this movie with people who have never seen it before and my god it was so fun to watch them watch the movie.

the neo, but for cars

I would buy this in an instant, and I'm fine with training it to recognize my atrocious handwriting (which is bad but also consistent, so learnable)

I would kill that fucking apple magic mouse the way those dudes destroyed the printer in Office Space. And then hire someone from Logitech to design an actual functional mouse. Or just acquire Logitech.

of all the great things we could do with technology, we landed on surveillance capitalism and scams.

I think Empire Records has more underlying sweetness to it which is why I like to watch it last, and Dazed and Confused just feels like it needs to be first, the spiritual foundation, lol.

I'm telling you, watching these movies (it has to be in this order) won't fix you, but it sure will help you disassociate for a bit and you definitely won't feel any worse for it (and might feel just a little bit better)

Dazed and Confused
Mallrats
Empire Records

*it must be in this order

not gonna lie, this definitely improved my mood

@erikahall.bsky.social literally wrote the research book all the rest of us use.

this one of the reasons this show feels like a throwback. people are attractive in a totally normal and imperfect way. no one looks like they were pumped out of the Hot & Sexy factory.

because a homebody can NEVER have enough suitcases!?!?

I am so sick of getting advertisements for products I have already purchased

ominous cutie patootie

I forgot about how much math (specifically fractions) is involved with music

this was a hella good time. I listened to it on my daily walk and at one point I was laughing so hard, I think I scared my neighbors.

I cannot describe the intense joy I get from watching robots eat shit

"Stuck in the Middle With You" (Reservoir Dogs)

new ear worm just dropped

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

give baby jane doe an emmy

holy shit that season finale of The Pitt...

if you are tall and you ever see me in Whole Foods (where at least three of my regular products are out of my reach), know right then that it is your time to be my hero.

Let me put it this way, it has exactly the same writing, acting, and production quality as you would expect from a SyFy original production.

this depends on if you are asking me or Guy, lol.

Well Guy, in MY opinion it is, but I know that movie holds a special place in your heart that I'm not sure this movie can reach.

It is not on the tier of Deep Blue Sea or even The Meg, but it's right underneath that level, better than a lot of the slop (of which there are many shark movies). As mentioned, Crawl did a much better job with the same concept.

of course:
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