Chuck Groenink

It’s giving 30 Rock

Shorter Ian Bogost:

‘A medium for children’
Yes, and?
I don’t even play video games, but whatever medium you work in, can and should be taken seriously as a piece of cultural labour.

Impressively fierce unicorn that apparently inhabits a part of Africa where people live in A+ tree houses. As imagined in the 1570s by Maerten de Vos, whose day has been today.

Don’t forget he also directed The Da Vinci Code🥴

Thought you meant character actor Dan Fogler there at first.

Real sophisticates make the distinction between: ‘I like it, but it’s morally trash’ (john Milius movies, SVU, etc), and ‘it’s morally trash, and it’s also bad art’ (Marvel, etc).

YouTube video by Vincent Dumestre - Topic Non ha sotto il ciel

Oh, I know L’Arpeggiata!
You’ll like le Poeme Harmonique then

YouTube video by Seattle Symphony - Topic Become Ocean

Stopped using Spotify this year, and my Apple music stats are very off because of listening to the same playlist several times a week at the gym. So I’ve decided my top track of the year is Become Ocean by John Luther Adams.
Please enjoy all 42 minutes of it.

People talk a lot about the kinds of people not depicted on MAD MEN, how they're invisible or peripheral, but the show is about conformity, and those who choose it again and again through inaction or fear. Every absence is intentional.

I’m guessing they didn’t ask her to read the essay out loud, as that would have given the whole game away

Quintetto in Do Maggiore La Musica Notturna Delle Strade Di Madrid Op. 30, No. 6, G. 324: Passa Calle - Allegro Vivo

I’m sure you’re familiar with this then:)

open.spotify.com/track/1X9YU8...

All about that Italian baroque!

He didn’t approve of the high turnout in the Kentucky special election yesterday. That’s way more enthusiasm from the electorate than he likes.

‘We’ve invented a bottomless hole in your heart you can fill with money’

Why don’t you get a real job.

She’s watching Columbo.

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Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...

Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...

Correct

Not bad

life is long and i've seen a lot of things come and go but i will not stand for the rehabilitation of the ron howard grinch. motherfucker i was THERE in the theater. i was there

Whole administration of Bucky Brights

Five hundred years ago, in the area I live, you would have heard people speaking Mohican and Mohawk. 300 years ago it would have been mostly Dutch. Now it’s English and a little Spanish.
The question to ask these bigots is what constitutes and sustains ‘the culture of the United States’

Mirror was the first Tarkovsky I saw, and it changed what I thought was possible you could do in cinema.
Parts of it are seared into me forever.

So good

I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.

And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

I grew some of those myself!

Is that a Butternut or a Tromboncino?