Take Me Where You Go You could be, I could be, a Prince or a Pauper

The first two weeks of almost-not-quite living in Philadelphia:

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I'd say soon as its clear where this country goes after this current administration sunsets, there'll be a few Chinese EVs that are basically light 3 box sedans and wagons available stateside.

LOOK. What the world needs now is a K-Car.

I mean, in some dynamics, GM X cars were better but the "Plymouth Valiant"-ness (nee Toyota Camry-ness) of K cars is the kinda basic transit module most people need.

Tan line season incoming!

Protect Jackie Fielder.

Post a car that matches its surroundings. #weirdcarbs #BelieveInFilm

(Luckily it's my own car)

Let's Get Away From It All No matter how far you go, (un)fortunately you're still you

Tahoe, bewitching body of water, leads me deep within myself before I surface again.

(if we're still doing trigger warnings, there's discussion of anti-queer violence)

#filmphotography #35mm #photography #LakeTahoe

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Like tbh this is the kinda post I'd expect reshared by following a fair skinned biracial person that does not live a fully culturally African American experience.

When those voices represent Black culture in white liberal/progressive spaces over visibly Black faces, we get elevation of slop.

It's also, just nothing really actually *good* seemingly comes out of Hollywood at this point. It's not a zone for actually nuanced, sophisticated or genuinely innovative art happens. It all sells for the lowest common denominator + shows how culturally illiterate Americans are.

No one that looks like this truly gets Black music like lmaooo PLEASE

Also it is SUPER telling that he couldn't find a Black American to do the score/music/soundtrack, which also left me flat. You seriously can't tell me in an African American tradition that you couldn't find someone Black to steward the sonic base of a film that has music at the core.

It seems that Coogler, to me, is just getting rewarded as a distraction tool for empire in the same way Tyler Perry normally is, just with a bigger production budget. It took up way too much Black public consciousness seeking validation distractions from insipsid entertainment.

Third the whole movie is.... kinda basic and just feels like elevated Blaxploitation with modern cinema values, no real sense of humor (it takes itself way too seriously) or realistic depth other than "make the deal with the devil." Actual Black for Black cinema has covered this since forever.

Second, there's no way you are centering the supernatural or connections to African Traditional Religion without having queer people. There's something so odd and telling about queer erasure with Coogler, who seems afraid to acknowledge Black Queer people exist after nearly 20 years of filmaking.

A big problem for me was the tragic mulatto trope of centering a near white love interest when realistically, in northern Mississippi in particular, it wasn't common for visibly mixed race women to exist unlike other parts of the country that practiced chattel slavery (Louisiana, the tide water).

I just hope people understand at some point the movie itself isn't all that good tho...

The Mountain's High A tribute to the poetic divides that are between yesterday, today and tomorrow.

So, Gracie survived going up to Tahoe and back. With mountains out of the way, what does this mean for driving to Philadelphia?

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#35mm #filmphotography #photography #travel

Swiss company Protonmail hands over American user info and not for the first time. I’m not a technoptimist if you couldn’t tell

Against Signal Culture with Jemma and Ralowe YouTube video by Sad Francisco

Episode is this one: btw: youtu.be/Jjc0RJ3e_zg

Que Sera Sera What happens when you are the one that knows too much.

Life does play out often like a Doris Day song from a Hitchcock Film but then becomes another Hitchcock Film then not a Hitchcock film at all:

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Haunted House There's a ghost in your house. It might be me.

Full Moon? Eclipse? All these planets in Pisces? Seems like a good time to do some purging:

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Chile. I know I be talking all sorts of Astrology bullshit, but this Mercury Rx is already showing its ass at this station.

I ain't really about that jesus life, but I'mma pray for me you and everyone worth a damn thru March 20th.

“C&H, C&H, Mommy uses it to bake her cakes”…

If you didn’t sing this as you went across the Carquinez Bridge as a kid, you not like us.

#35mm #filmphotography #photography #corvair #bayareabackroads

Suffice to say as a child of a parent that suffered childhood SA, and unfortunately my very early sex experiences, even tho I was “of age” had a similar back story cause I was still a closeted teen at the time, I’m genuinely sick to my stomach.

Sex trafficking runs DEEP in the bay.

Charged with child sex abuse, East Palo Alto employee gets character reference from council member A former East Palo Alto city employee is accused of repeatedly molesting and supplying drugs to a 13-year-old he met while working for the city, according to San Mateo County prosecutors in newly obta...

If people wonder about the multiple reasons why I need to get out of the bay, it’s not safe.

Full transparency, I was involved in housing work in East Palo Alto (served as Rent Stabilization Chair) during this period.

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I'm sorry, but given all that's going on, I can't really care that two relatively wealthy Black actors participating in a white supremacist institution became targets of white supremacy culture.

I'm sorry, but Genocide and ICE raids are far more fucking important.

A little bit of late winter songshine to help move through the chaos via @mixcloud.bsky.social

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Expressway To Your Heart ...as in getting caught in the rush hour of your own emotions

To be frankly honest, it's a delight to live out your favorite songs and be able to cement it in real time:

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#filmphotography #35mm #photography #substack

Call it International if you must, but I’ll always call it East 14th.

It’s one helluva street. Probably the most Oakland Street of Oakland.

#filmphotography #35mm #photography #oakland #streetphotography

They make for good keepsakes @white2tea.bsky.social