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"this would look good on him" ahh thoughts

jury president park chan-wook departing for the cannes film festival 🫶

OKAY I CANT LIE BUT IM LOVING CLOUD AND AERITH’S BANTER SO FAR LMAO

Mixtape is a truly special game, like a playable High Fidelity or maybe a 90s John Hughes movie. Still thinking about it days later. Also you can blow things up by flipping them off -Go play it! (It’s on Game Pass, too)

once i started writing at an undergraduate level i realised how terrible the majority of video essays on youtube are

The Millennial falloff will be studied for generations

John Cassavetes on why he is against movies like Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (1971): "There’s a difference between being violent and having violent emotions. There’s a difference between anger and the act of shooting somebody in the face. I’ve never known anyone in my life that ever shot anyone in the face. And I’ve seen it on the screen too many times. There’s no morality there, no feeling of anything for anyone. It’s a lie to say that people are violent. There are more good people than there are bad people. To see constant terror builds a nation, builds moviegoers that can only love constant terror. We become used to it, inured to it like doctors knowing they have to be tough. They can’t think of that person with tenderness, but must be dispassionate. There’s a lot of violence in 'Minnie and Moskowitz' (1971) but violence that I can understand. Violent feelings, but nobody ki!!s anybody or shoots anyone or knifes anybody. Without having seen 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971), I know, because I know the story. I really couldn’t go to see it, because I don’t want to see people ki!! each other. I don’t want to see any more hostility toward one another. I just don’t want to see that reflected any more. I’m tired of violence and dehumanization. I think the artist has a tremendous obligation to bring trust to people. Because the only thing we don’t have time for is ourselves. We can’t live with ourselves if we have no respect for our life and the human condition and the foibles that exist in all of us – then we have no tolerance, we’re all Nazis. We can’t survive with people being that inhuman. It’s impossible. I look at 'A Clockwork Orange' and ask, why did Stanley make it? Did he make it for anyone in particular? Why did he choose a story like that, in this day and age? For what: to incite a revolution, to stop everything? Maybe that would be OK, if he really believed that, but I don’t believe it. I don’t know why he made it. The more films are made about insanity, the more fashionable it will become. And, eventually, as we become more and more dehumanized, there will be no answers for anyone. You can’t get any pleasure out of being an animal. There should be a Kubrick who can make that film and show that life can be violent and harsh. But, on the other hand, where are the equalizing forces of happiness? Art films, in stressing the weakness of society, have lost their balance. The majority of people would rather be filled with illusion than disillusion. And we just have to find some way to reflect that. Not just to constantly say, ‘Oh, God, things are wrong and all, and I don’t know what to do about it.’" ('Cassavetes on Cassavetes', edited by Ray Carney, 2001)

Modern philosopher ✨️Slavoj Žižek✨️ on the cover of Vogue Adria, in the lens of (obviously) Juergen Teller.🪡

RIP Peter Aldington, whose Turn End is a lovely example of perhaps my favourite architectural style — Kettle’s Yard Modernism.

Corgan, lately, has been making this point about 90s rock and how the lady in sonic youth was an awful trust fund kid and it’s why SY refused to write choruses and thus sucked: they didn’t need money

‘BACKROOMS’ is tracking to open with $20M domestically. • 2X the film's production budget of $10M • Could become one of A24's biggest openings ever (Source: Deadline)

Corgan, lately, has been making this point about 90s rock and how the lady in sonic youth was an awful trust fund kid and it’s why SY refused to write choruses and thus sucked: they didn’t need money

I love Billy Corgan's brain. Sex with a shapeshifter? Yep! The CIA killed grunge? Absolutely! Sonic Youth were trust fund kids that wrote boring music? Of course! No one else is operating on his level.

The concept of 10k steps burning 250 calories