Still possible: Universal healthcare. Universal childcare. Housing for all. Public wind and solar. Raise the minimum wage. Job guarantee. Expanded pathways to immigration and citizenship. End war and arms shipments.
Pro-authoritarian cinema
Ready Player One
Brilliant, thank you
There’s dignity in seeing movies you rated 2.5 stars get Best Picture nom
“In 1987, former White House National Security Advisor Robert MacFarlane declared that [It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946] had helped him out of depression, following a suicide attempt after his role in the Iran–Contra affair was discovered.”
I will pay you a billion dollars to plagiarize me
In 1999, my sister went to a record store and hummed a song to the guy and he found her the CD with that song
Train Dreams is this year’s Shawshank Redemption (derogatory)
“KSR, a soc dem reformist disguised as a socialist”
it’s like Attorneys General
I wanna be adored (the stone roses, 1989)
Untrust us (crystal castles, 2008)
Dead leaves and the dirty groups (white blood cells, 2001)
I am trying to break your heart (yhf, 2003)
See no evil (marquee moon, 1977)
The goat
New favorite batshit quote
John Kirby
Zero evidence given in the piece as to why this counts as “[flying] too close to the sun”
alyosha levels up in the end with his newly ritually sanctified gang of hooligan youths
Alan Moore’s Jerusalem
what seeing the VistaVision print of OBAA at Regal Union Square felt like
One of my favorites
This I take to be as bad a juncture as ever I observed.
“I asked Chatgpt” “I asked Grok” okay well i asked Pop Leibel about the gay old bohemian days, like who shot who in the Embarcadero August, 1879
Cigarette hanging from my lips as I stare out the window, “now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time”
If I could listen to one last album before I die, it would be a toss up between Modest Mouse’s “Lonesome Crowded West” or Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney’s “Superwolf”
Will Oldham Marc Maron interview will heal me
One reason I love David Lynch, he gave me an excuse to talk/read about the Theosophical Society
Not helpful to see David Lynch’s art as in anyway informed by Buddhism. More interesting, Twin Peaks’s pseudo-Tibet stuff is more like the last gasp of the Theosophical Society. There’s great writing on this by Elizabeth Lowry and Donald Lopez
Pure cinema watching: Criterion 24/7, sound off, don’t know what it is, didn’t look it up, not reading the subtitles