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@DefiantLs That’s Martin rev from Suicide

Florida man speaks out: "I am not Jeffrey Epstein" "My video went viral because some dude randomly filmed me while I was driving"

@CHRISF0GLE @COprince09 The main issue, really, is that there are no longer certain kinds of readers. Men readers 50 plus barely exist, for instance. And romantasy has a stranglehold on the market. When readership becomes infantalized, publishers will respond in kind. They’re businesses. Not curators.

@codger504 @COprince09 Yes, I’m aware of all this. And I think if literature is going to survive as an art form, it will probably have to change

If an AI novel can get released by a publisher as respected as Hachette, which often gives advances in the 5 or 6 figures, is it time to collectively admit that the entire modern literary industry is a sham?

@COprince09 @CHRISF0GLE All books go through sensitivity readings before editing these days. At least at the big houses. Then they’ll see if you have a robust social media presence. The quality of the book factors in surprisingly little. It’s about marketability. And no, I’m not an editor.

@CHRISF0GLE @codger504 Clearly these “junior editors” need to be replaced how many people want these jobs and you’re just sitting there letting this slop get through?

@CHRISF0GLE I’m not a junior editor. I’m a novelist. However, I’ll agree that publishing is in shambles these days. The junior editors, of which there are fewer and fewer, are looking for a hit so they keep their jobs. So what we see is a copy of a copy of a copy of what worked 4 years ago

@codger504 Yes I know how it works lol. If you’re employed as a junior editor at a big press, it’s your job to vet this stuff. Those are really competitive jobs

@AnnCoulter Stick with marvel movies

Liel Leibovitz in the Free Press: "As a work of art, One Battle After Another is irredeemable. It feels like the sort of thing written by a committee of socialist college sophomores cracking each other up ... "Paul Thomas Anderson seems interested more in purring for his fellow progressives than in making interesting movies ..."

@GlobalWatchClub This guy is out of control

Kevin O'Leary rocking both the Cartier Crash Skeleton and A Ruby-Set Rolex Daytona at the Oscars last night

@DiscussingFilm Jfc

Stavros Halkias will star alongside Glen Powell in Judd Apatow’s new film. The comedy follows a country-western star whose career goes into free-fall. In theaters on February 5, 2027.

@vurnt22 You might dig Carpenters In the Mouth of Madness, though. I imagine you’re already familiar. And other Stuart Gordon movies were “lovecraftian”.

2 other Cosmic Horror films that, imo, are deeply Lovecraftian in tone, if not text? Carpenter’s The Thing, & Cronenberg’s The Fly. BTW? I’m sorry but Hellraiser is more on the mark than From Beyond. In your mind, hear Pinhead intoning “Humans are such easy prey!”. And weep.

@vurnt22 Lovecraft might be untranslatable to film. Once you separate the idiosyncratic language from the rest, you’re left with a monster movie. What we conjure in our imaginations is far scarier and vast and nightmarish than any film can achieve.

@Nithya_Shrii I think you missed gardening

10 jobs that are 100% safe from AI: 1. Dentist 2. Construction worker 3. Plumbing 4. Farming 5. Gardening 6. Carpentry 7. Cooking 8. Gardening 9. Welder 10. Electrician Did I miss any?!

@catturd2 Every day in every way you’re becoming more irrelevant

Can you feel it? The dying of the cancerous doomer, everything is the Jooooooos fault, blackpill, TDS, frauds. They’re broken record retards. Everyone I know is bored with these fake losers..

@vurnt22 I always thought it was fun and hokey but also atmospheric, almost gallo-like in sequences.

“Humans are such easy prey “. The best line In a really terrible movie. The enticing print ad tagline for From Beyond. Tturned out that the delivery of that line in the film fell flat, overshadowed as it was by the horrendous creature effects which were where BAD faux Rob Botin.

@michaeloburns True. Nothing quite sea and cake. And Prekop’s recent forays into modular synthesis are equally unique.

The Sea and Cake (+ Sam Prekop's solo records) are so good and important and you need to listen to them if you have no yet because they will improve your soul.

@AVARY Yes

Am I the only one who finds him hawking a pink can “Shirley Temple” flavor while popping Zoolander faces creepy?

@catturd2 No. CATagotically no. Comprehensively no. Not in any conceivable way.

Do you want me to keep going?

@DiscussingFilm @Variety It got way too much love. It’s a corny ass movie.

Spike Lee says he “wanted a little more love” for ‘SINNERS’ at the Oscars. “My one big, big, big disappointment is my brother Delroy Lindo.” (Source: @Variety)

@all90saltrock Pixies: infinitely better than nirvana.

Pixies doing “Here Comes Your Man” live at Brixton Academy (1991) is the funny part of their legacy: they basically helped invent the quiet-loud blueprint, and then they pull out this perfect, bright pop rocket like it’s no big deal. Everyone points to Nevermind for the early ’90s alt explosion, but Doolittle (1989) is where the wiring got rewritten, and Cobain straight up said he was chasing that Pixies tension-and-release.

@RobertJohnDavi He wasn’t snubbed. You’re wrong or lying

Why was Robert Duvall snobbed !!!!!!

@RealSkipBayless You’re exactly not known as high brow

I tried to watch "One Battle After Another." I lasted maybe 45 minutes.