clayton purdom

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also lol apparently this website is publishing again

Blackstar won't tell you how to die I spent a lot of time this week listening to “Subterraneans,” the last song on 1977’s Low, by David Bowie. I didn’t know what else to do. Like a lot of other people, I had a feeling—this response to d...

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i'm trying to make time to chat with people (voice, video, meatspace??) about what they're working on and interested in.

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EX Research A research report about games, music, the internet, and everything in between.

my sincere hope is that the new website for exresearch.co makes you think your computer is broken

200 words about One Battle After Another They say you’re supposed to grow more conservative as you get older, that parenting turns you safe and boring.

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i wrote 200 words about one battle after another

198 words about The Materialists Credit A24’s marketing for making me expect a sparkling comedy of manners in the vein of Whit Stillman or (sorry) Woody Allen when instead what The Materialists offers is an incredibly dour and never ...

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clearing out a backlog of takes now that i've got childcare again. here's 198 words about the materialists

200 words about Donkey Kong Bananza There is an idea of “game feel” — the specific way that mechanics, animation, sound, and the tactile experience of holding a controller intersect.

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i wrote 200 words about donkey kong bananza

199 words about The Last Samurai Released before and bearing no relation to the Tom Cruise movie that stole its name, The Last Samurai dramatizes the relationship between two of the most enjoyable people I’ve ever encountered in fict...

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i wrote 199 words about the last samurai (not the tom cruise movie)

196 words about Eddington Ari Aster has now released a great movie, a good movie, a bad movie, and an okay movie, in that order; the trendline isn’t good, but I remain a believer.

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i wrote 196 words about eddington

199 words about Burial Burial's first two albums were, among other things, masterpieces of world-building, dystopian but sensual.

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forgot to say i wrote 199 words about burial

198 words about Seven Samurai This is a movie about multiples.

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i wrote 198 words about seven samurai

200 words about The Adam Friedland Show All Adam Friedland used to get was shit on.

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i wrote 200 words about TAFS

189 words about Rashomon I believe this movie takes place at the end of the world.

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i wrote 189 words about rashomon

195 words about KPop Demon Hunters “The future belongs to crowds,” Don DeLillo wrote in Mao II, and while he wasn’t talking about KPop Demon Hunters he wasn’t not talking about it, either.

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i wrote 195 words about kpop demon hunters

195 words about the Clipse “You can hop but you won’t always be hip,” noted flautist Andre 3000 once said of his decision to retire from rapping.

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i wrote 195 words about the clipse

198 words, even

198 words about Mario Kart World Discourse-impervious, Mario Kart World (anecdotally) enraptures a room of people of mixed age, background, and interest level like no videogame since Wii Sports, straight up.

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i wrote 198 word about mario kart world