A baby was born in 1984 in lebanon. Its parents decided to name her Amal. She grew up to be a journalist because she couldn‘t stop caring and speaking, and she loved poetry. Like thousands like her, Israel fucking murdered her in cold blood and we are all expected to treat this like normal.
I will totally pick a subpar wu album over a late career dylan album. in fact I already have.
I guess the change in ownership really did nothing to change the management style (at the ownership level).
Black & white photo of the singer with his hair in his eyes
Happy birthday Iggy Pop
📷 Dustin Rabin, Toronto, 2013
“All I really have on my mind before I go out there is: I’m going to try to kill them. What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.”
Virginia’s Democratic governor broke with the rest of her party to veto a bill to protect defendants from being pressured to accept plea deals that waive their constitutional rights. The bill passed with support from Democratic lawmakers earlier this year.
You guys call leftists purity testers and all this other shit. You call us pinkos and denigrate us and extremists and all this.
We want your fucking kids to go to school and eat healthy meals and grow up and be safe and have jobs and not be institutionally murdered by the state.
Humble yourselves.
the replies to this are hilariously insane. (for what's it worth, I think the correlation here is important and worth investigating, but the suggested causal direction—if I'm understanding correctly—is questionable.)
incredible and wildly underrated movie. completely blew me away when I watched it for the first time a couple of years ago.
one can always hope.
You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂
I think we at least listened to a song or two. had forgotten it was from ellen.
ha! didn't you have this or something very like it on vinyl?
israeli colonizers shot up a school
Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.
For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.
We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.
Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.
The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."
My story:
a still of plated deserts from MARIE ANTOINETTE. Sofia Coppola invents instagram
Sofia Coppola’s film about France’s final queen Marie Antoinette bloomed with controversy before the film even went into production. Rumours that proved to be true circulated in online film spaces that she was going to take an anarchic anachronistic approach to the period costume-drama. Her Marie Antoinette would be a deconstruction of period pieces and the mannered style therein—and cast the gluttonous queen in the guise of her career-long examination of the teenage girl as an outsider figure whose behaviour could be explained through Coppola’s tendency to self-identify with the aesthetic surfaces and caged emotions of these characters. It became more obvious that this would not be a studied and faithful adaptation when news broke that she was scripting from Antonia Fraser’s newly revisionist biography of Marie Antoinette as her source material, instead of the more detailed and factual accounts of the monarch from Stefan Zweig’s analytic biography. To make matters more profane, Coppola shot her fantasia of the beheaded glamour queen at her former kingdom—the Palace of Versailles—and she intended to debut her film at Cannes for a French audience.
She seemed to be courting controversy, and scandal followed the film after the divisive premiere. The film was booed, which is not exceptional for Cannes, but some in the French critical establishment took the film to task for the way it presented the facts of its revisionist history. Agnès Poirier, the critic at the French Newspaper Libération, wrote, “The film is shocking because it is empty, devoid of a point of view, because the person who has made it has no curiosity for the woman she is portraying and the time that her tragic life is set in. The film director seems as unconcerned by her subject as Marie-Antoinette was indifferent to the plight of her people and the world she lived in.”. Poirier’s frustrations were somewhat tempered by his admiration of the colorful mise-en-scene, and it must be said that not everyone in the French intelligentsia were critical of Coppola’s vision; Jean-Michel Frodon, the editor-in-chief at Cahiers du Cinema found much to admire about Coppola’s film and made an argument for the film with an auteurist take on the material.
Marie Antoinette was always going to garner a sharply critical response within France, because the nature of Antoinette’s monarchy, and the French revolution that followed, is too explosive for a tepid response. Indifference might have been the worst of all possible fates: in Coppola’s own words, “it would have been worse if they hadn’t reacted at all.”. It is true that Coppola’s Marie Antoinette presents itself as a hollow endeavor, but its cloistered world of ritual, feminine finery, and glamour at the expense of the noble peasant life of blood and dirt and responsibility and anguish is entirely the point. Marie Antoinette is told in a way that is extremely pleasurable in its surfaces of beauty, and in its elaborate and meticulous and jaw-dropping set-design, but there is criticism within the form itself. Alongside those aspirational qualities that Coppola self-identifies with as a daughter of filmmaking royalty, there is also condemnation and interrogation. Marie Antoinette asks viewers what is at stake when a white woman aspires to this type of lifestyle, and Coppola’s film wonders if there is something rotten when femininity is linked to such exhibitionist displays. However, the film’s brilliance lay in how there is still a seductive pull, and a longing for majesty within her images that persists, even with that critical valve of tension and criticism bubbling underneath the elaborate wigs, and the decadent costumes. With Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola has her cake and eats it too.
I wrote about Sofia Coppola's MARIE ATOINETTE for my reader's choice series. I dove into how the superficial qualities are actually the entire point of the endeavor and how it's the most complicated film she's ever made. Really proud of how this one turned out.
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an absolutely ridiculous movie (complimentary). I think it was godard's favorite western, or at least the one he used clips from the most in his late-period collage films.
It's official: The House has sworn in Democratic Rep. Analilia Mejia.
now I'm curious if all these early to the airport types are also getting to penn station (or south station or whatever) an hour before their train leaves.
The Ring House, built in 1972, in Moscow, Russia r/brutalism
yes and that's not even weird. it's pretty normal to want to be social.
how is this an edgy take? genuinely, this seems so obvious to me.
(2) the attitude toward planning that I know too well from my mother where you need to plan for a not-at-all-likely worst case scenario and so have to pad your estimates by multiple hours.
I totally get that I am more risk-tolerant in this area than most people will ever be. I'm really reacting to (1) the apparently widespread but new to me belief that the airport is a great place to hang (which, there're better places to drink bourbon. and...
yeah I unfortunately know the mindset way too well because my mother is exactly like this. which is maybe also why I react so strongly to it.
what you're expressing is not insane (I admittedly engage in riskier behavior in this area, when traveling alone). but I think the screenshot below is genuinely insane. and there's plenty more like it.
they plan on getting to the airport *early*. sorry I missed that the key modifier.
but honestly I just assumed in first class they had enough space for overhead carry ons for everyone. the seats are so spread out I'm really surprised they don't.
you're in first class. just check the fucking bag.
