Moss Elixir

It's been pointed out many times how entwined that whole movement is with militant TERFism & other unpleasant beliefs but just like the first 87 times this ideology was attempted nobody jumping onto it over here ever listens.

So many situations in life where polite silence is just the best option

Attack of the (the) Eye Creatures also godawful but at least it has the entertainment of bizarre dialogue like, "Opening strange doors ISN'T the kind of thing for a decent clean-living American girl to do!"

Track of the Moon Beast another strong candidate, just godawful

I was going to say, you’d want to be hoping for a “with prejudice” here

"Men are in trouble. Maybe making yourself & numerous children physically, economically & psychically vulnerable to them might be the solution--for them, we mean, your problems don't mean shit."

a couple of bikini girls with Papa Smurf and a little girl outside a Hardee's while a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion rises into the sky

Good morning from America

(The Picture of Dorian Gray? Still not quite the same thing)

Mentioning The Substance made me also think of the recurring trope where a woman actually does become a monster in the fanatical quest to be the opposite of one—the only sort-of male equivalent I can think of there is The Fly but Seth Brundell did that accidentally & not for youth & beauty

Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.

Yeah, it’s like movies for me—Hollywood is dead & rotting, meanwhile the rest of the planet is producing enough good stuff to occupy nearly anyone

I agree (& also let’s not yet again conflate sick/disabled with “monstrous” through the back door) but also I think, is this purely about what men collectively don’t desire, or what they don’t TALK about desiring because society dictates a “real man” only wants the one type of thing?

Your first sentence is why I read so little literary fiction now, it’s nearly all pre-1990 stuff or genre fiction now

The Grateful Dead of comedy shows, from “keep circulating the tapes” to lifelong obsessives versus some splenetic “you’ve ruined your medium” detractors to all the tributary “Dead & Co” & “jam band” projects following in its wake

The only thing I can think of is the occasional man + “giantess” thing & even then the draw is usually that she’s literally a huge piece of very traditional-looking hyperfemininity—I can’t think of anything where a man falls for, like, a Monstro Elisasue

It’s bad out there!

Tangential to the Jimmy Cliff news but after you watch The Harder They Come you gotta see Franco Rosso’s Babylon, which took the top of my head off (my Yank ear did have to turn on subtitles), & Menelik Shabazz’s Burning an Illusion.

Jimmy Cliff

RIP Jimmy Cliff. The Harder They Come is one of my favorite movies. My dad showed it to me when I was a kid and of course I instantly fell in love with the music and the outlaw story, it’s a perfect movie. JC’s singing is unparalleled, heavy reggae soul. He has now crossed the last river

Too edgy for Hollywood, take that to the arthouse Monsieur Godard

Kicking today off to a fine start blocking someone advocating mistreating male abuse survivors because “4B is 4B,” can’t stop anyone from running the moth-eaten old lesbian separatist playbook yet again but not in this house you don’t.

….it’s too early on a Monday morning for this kind of thing & you know it

Rochefort sisters in pink and yellow trimmed white sun dresses in music room w window to the summer Young girls of Rochefort. Deneuve & Dorleac

We play the cello, the trumpet, and the banjo

(They can use that for free, by the way. "Netflix: I Guess It's About What You'd Expect.")

Udo took a chance on my rinky-dink festival in Vancouver back in 2000 - he went on TV interviews with me, carried 35mm film prints up stairs, went to get me coffee and even live-dubbed Giancarlo Giannini's voice when BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA showed up without subs. RIP Udo, you were a star 🌟

Act three fell apart like wet tissue paper but at least Idris Elba & Jared Harris got to hurl some quality acting around. I'm pointing & laughing in advance at any For Your Considerations but I got about what I expected from it.

That incident with Udo & the mules in Parade haunts the survivors still

It's so great--it deserves a better reputation than "that movie that Dr. Strangelove lampooned."

Finding out as a kid that wind instruments have these things called "spit valves" with actual spit in them was a formative "EWWWWWWW" moment

I kind of enjoy "repeat that last scene from another POV" motifs so that doesn't bother me, but also I'm an easy mark for anything with nuke-themed dad film vibes (the first act is definitely the best one though).

The Orville Wright Middle School Marching Band of Mundelein, IL Saturated Bagpipe Incident traumatized so many people, I hope the survivors are smiling tonight