kelly pendergrast

Selective Service System (mentioned below) had a huge impact on me when I first watched it.

Made by SF State students, it documents the lengths some young people went to avoid the draft, the violence of those (these) times, and the way wars makes losers of us all.

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Screenshot from "Selective Service System" (1970) directed by Warren Haack. We see a man, filmed from above, sitting on a sofa with his feet up on a chair. He holds a shotgun in his left hand and it is pointing approximately in the direction of his left foot.

Screenshot from "Inextinguishable Fire" (1969), by Harun Farocki. The black and white image shows the arms and torso of a man sitting behind a desk with sheets of paper in front of him. His left hand is stretched out on the desk in front of him, and with his right hand he touches a cigarette to his bare left forearm.

Screenshots from "Crossroads" (1976) by Bruce Connor. A grid of four black and white screenshots show moments from an underwater nuclear explosion at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

I pretty much think the semi-apocryphal Truffaut truism that "it is impossible to make an anti-war film" is correct when it comes to hollywood narrative cinema.

However, it is 100% possible to make an anti-war experimental film. Time to tap back in at the cinephile factory, friends.

The Anton Jager Hyperpolitics cover design works and I like it, but that book jacket style cycle is now complete

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

I’m very selective on gigs as I won’t want to end up in front of a crowd of people who just want to hear “Your Woman” fifteen times. Also, I will not work with Tories, I much prefer gigging for co-ops / anarchists / communists and I want shows to be all ages with good accessibility for everyone. As you may expect, this kind of narrows down the gigs I do, as I turn around 90% down. My ideal tour would be me and my MPC and guitar just doing a load of gigs in small rooms to maybe thirty or forty people. I have zero desire to do the large rock band thing of squinting out from a high stage at a bunch of people you can’t see.

And he keeps it real to this day

(from diyconspiracy.net/jyoti-mishra...)

Black and white photo of Jyoti Mishra, aka the musician known as White Town - sitting in front of a keyboard (or a synthesizer... idk). He is South Asian, with a shaved head, glasses, a Russell hoodie, and a smile.

Pop culture shock of my life last year, as a 90s kid, was to find out that the guy behind White Town (of "I could never be your woman" fame) is a British Indian communist straghtedger from Darby whose music was an attempt to combine bedroom pop and revolutionary theory

Every time I see either of these men:

Screenshot from the drone footage of Yahya Sinwar’s final moments, with the man’s image outlined and Hebrew text identifying his name

A piece of footage I think about every week. An image from the future

Toilet cubicle with two toilets in it, side by side just a few inches apart, one toilet is bigger and one is smaller.

Visiting my best friend in New Zealand at his new place (a decommissioned community center he bought & now lives in) and this is the bathroom

I really am blessed. Feb 14 who

Ooooohohoho now you’re talking. Must give this a try - IRS will have no recourse

Please celebrate in my honor

Actually that would be winter, never mind. Next time Christmas 🎅💀

Next time July 4

Last time I flew to New Zealand I skipped New Year’s Eve entirely thx to crossing the date line. Straight from the 30th to New Year’s Day. This time I get to skip Valentine’s Day! Bye suckers!!! ✈️🚫❤️

No new terms... unless absolutely necessary. And that is a VERY appropriate one haha

truly. i am more inclined to trust the plant than the computer as a matter of principle, but the grift is widespread in both arenas.

unfortunately the bay area is ground zero for both of these types of people. i am even friends with some of them (only the drugs ones).

The posters who act like it's their job to evangelize AI and get everyone else on board come hell or high water are similar to (but worse than) the people who do ayahuasca and come back convinced it's their job to evangelize mother aya to the nonbelievers. Please! mind your own business.

Probably something even more sinister

Caught wind that my manifesto about stew and the social necessity of affordable public dining has influenced the founding of at least one local dinner series ... that's impact baby

Whenever anyone under 40 acts in a way that indicates they think smoking a cigarette makes you look cool, I think less of them - oh wow you had a bowl of cigs at your party????? sorry what is this, dimes square 2022

kind of can't believe rick rubin isn't in the epstein files

@nosilverv posts "And you've engineered stakes out of your life. Remote work, flexible schedule, relationship that's stable enough to coast in, no boss, no deadlines that actually bite, no one depending on you showing up. You can do whatever you want, which means nothing you do really counts.". @cid_boi asks "Banger, what are you quoting from"? and @nosilverv responds "Le Claude"

Fight Club / Office Space white collar nihilism has RETURNED and it's coming for the tech guys this time. thank you Claude

Ugh Vic Chesnutt is truly the final boss of boyfriend music.

After years of aural waterboarding i've come to like Songs: Ohia and love Red House Painters and tolerate Silver Jews but i STILL HATE vic chestnutt - irritating little creep with horrible lyrics

Unfortunately i agree although i love and respect many american football enjoyers

All these TPUSA dorks yelling "you'd never hear these lyrics at the superbowl!!!" (as kid rock sings about the bible) are acting as if the Superbowl isn't an innately propagandist pro-military pro-christian pro-america spectacle. 30 mins of Bad Bunny doesn't change this!!

Official header font of the Trump White House, I guess...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

100%

Promotional image for David protein bars

Promotional image for Oura rings with the phrase "Health is our love language"

Ad for the Trump Gold Card

Really funny how Instrument Serif and related fonts have made a comeback in a way that is vaguely reactionary-coded (healthmaxxxing, retvrn purity stuff) ... well and openly fascistic stuff too I guess!!