Michael Hearn

Too VERY 1989 coded albums.

Leave home NOW.

Einar Örn Benediktsson gets the gas face!

(I actually don't know too much about Sugarcubes opinions in Bjork fandom or his contributions, just thought it'd be funny to say)

For the same reason you aren't just watching every single homemade movie on Tubi or Youtube, the AI art that would override all the other AI art is the one promoted by the institutions. You really think tech bros care about giving struggling artists a chance at the big leagues?

Think of the villain in The Incredible's logic as the same here: if everyone's special then no one is. If EVERYONE can make a level of art that's purportedly acceptable (and we'll only be accepting this crappy level of AI art through brute force by its owners) then what breaks the surface? $$$$

AI salesman have really done a number on some people who think it "evens the playing field" and "eliminates gatekeeping" when it really allows the most famous version of gatekeeping (money) an even more throughlined process.

Hey bluesky…

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You played yourself

Shouting from the roof you say

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

I was proud of myself being slightly ahead of the curve seeing The Burning Plain and catching Jennifer Lawrence as a breakout performer.

Not the hardest the New Beverly laughed during The Good, the Bad and the Beauty but close.

Yes they loved the arena name joke

My Naked Gun crowd booed the Google AI commercial, let’s go

Cloud (2024, Kiyoshi Kurosawa), a very funny and dark drama about modern business and capitalism. There's a definite wryness to its shared perspectives in the latter half where an idea of justice starts to be perverted, itself all as transactional and worthless as business.

Philip Glass - Prophecies
OR
Philip Glass - Mishima
OR
Philip Glass - Helen's Theme

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud is the longest ad for a VPN I’ve ever seen.

Sorry didn’t mean to sound confusing about my stance, I consider using ChatGPT to be a serious moral failing in ALL circles.

The Bikeriders (2023, Jeff Nichols)

The era I went to a lot of free screenings in Philly was golden for this because they really didn't seem to care who went into what. I saw families with kids next to me for Killer Joe, for instance.

July 2025 First Time Watches:
1. City of Hope
2. Night Nurse
3. Eat the Night
4. Desert Hearts
5. Christmas in Connecticut
6. My Favorite Wife
7. Ladybug, Ladybug
8. Shakedown (1950)
9. Easy Living
10. Nobody's Fool

I remember when the supposed innocence of twitter's origin was "Ashton Kutcher could see your reply, and like it!" and it felt overnight when it became the self-flagellation of consumers finding ways to tear down celebrities.

At least the Singing Contest shows had some pretense that to be famous you had to offer some service or ability; now it's a gamble to see if when/if the personality will crash and burn and how much you can market around it.

Overheard a couple people discussing Love Island and used the rest of my afternoon walk by myself to think about how fame, even if similar in the past, is more than ever really just done as a test to see who'll withstand in the insanity of fame and that itself is a spectacle that can be sold.

Millieldia a Brooklyn Queen, originally from Philabieldia

If there's ever a Shin Gamera, they have a golden opportunity to use the line "it's about ethics in Gamera journalism."

Kind of amazing that the easiest way to ruffle a rich person's feathers is just to not put your soul on sale.

A only slight manipulation of the darkness of Philadelphia for the new Square Enix game.

An AI salesman after crashing their car into your living room: "Look, there's no going back to a world with an intact living room anymore, the genie's out of that bottle."

Weapons
The Toxic Avenger
Honey, Don't!
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