T. Darr

Meryl Streep was my first choice too but I cast her with Steven Seagal in a His Girl Friday remake. The mismatch of energies would be weird as hell, but Streep and Nielsen could actually work.

I grew up dirt poor in Texas. I’m a socialist and a woman. So I know this place is deeply flawed. I’m moving to CA soon! But your assessment of TX doesn’t reflect my reality. There‘s been no daily competition. My communities are strong, diverse. It IS hot as hell. But I kind of like it.

Over four decades I’ve seen breathtaking beauty in Big Bend, Pedernales Falls, Caddo Lake. Gorgeous trees in Houston, Austin, Wimberley, countless small towns. I’m sure I’d be dazzled by Maine! The older I get, the more awestruck I feel in nature. I just reject your winner/loser premise.

This fixation on naming one state “better” or “more beautiful“ than another seems silly to me when there’s so much beauty in varying topographies. But your writing says 80% of Texans have never seen real trees. Tongue-in-cheek, I’m sure, but you sound unlucky in your travels of Texas. And angry.

Many Austin neighborhoods like mine enjoy vast canopies of old-growth trees (hazardous in ice storms!). This is true all over Texas; it’s too big and diverse to be easily defined. This article views the state through a narrow aperture. Good for clicks, bad for learning the more interesting reality.

Good question. But insurance aside, these studios are making a risky bet on the audience’s appetite for old controversies. They’re too out of touch to notice the tide of entropy has already changed direction. Most execs just don’t grasp the vagaries of culture.

Excellent choice.

I’m going to try and convince my friends to watch Bugonia, which I find strangely festive like all Lanthimos movies, but I suspect
we’ll end up watching something less deranged.

Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams radically realigned my understanding of the possible in film. Unlike most cinematic depictions of dreams, these hypnotic shorts fully embrace the narrative wisdom of the subconscious. Just take his hand.

In The Last Temptation of Christ, Jesus said “Death isn’t a door that closes, it opens. It opens and you go through it.” As I age, seek meaning, endure loss, read about quantum physics, the more I believe in the soul’s continuity. I’m not religious but while we’re here, love & mercy are everything.

Are we talking about untying the cleat hitch knot keeping my personal poop knife safely dangling at knee level in my bathroom, driving it to my bro’s house, following the groaning sound to his toilet and passing it like a baton? Or just shouting over Dog Day Afternoon, “Dude just use the knife!”

This is why I always read my screenplays on paper before showing them to anyone. You’ve gotta approach your own shit with some crude approximation of objectivity to really see just how big a goofball you were when you thought, “Hah! YES. They’d be literally insane to deny my brilliance.” #scriptsky

Hell yeah, slam dancing to “Oh! Susanna” would be sick too. Dudes in straw hats smashing fiddles.

#scriptsky (why the hell not)

Who can blame you? The show’s just not very good. For enduring the irritating characters on Girls we were rewarded with big laughs and a genuine search for meaning. That show was plumbing some really wild depths. I Love LA is perversely cynical and (sorry) not funny.

Any screenwriter who doesn’t say, “I’d use my absolute power to force Hollywood to produce my best screenplay” is really missing out on a delightful fantasy that gets increasingly baroque the longer you sip your tea while staring out your home’s largest window.

I can’t believe this fucking ditz is picking out novelty diseases for us all to die from

Pretty Woman is a comedy? Such a rip roaring hilarious comedy that it belongs on a list of the greatest comedies? Hmmm.

I’m glad the nation of worms developed their own AT-AT walkers for long range transport but this one seems to think it’s calling the shots. And the Atlantic is like, “Wow. You’re not a monster truck for worms, you’re a real man. Let’s get one with your mahogany rosary beads.” (I’m insane now, thx)

I can’t tell if this is a joke.

Here‘s a simple way of thinking about it. If you HAVE TO WORK to survive, you should be considered a member of the working class. There’s no good reason to divide those of us without independent wealth (the vast majority of American) into discrete tiers. All it does is preempt solidarity.

No drip, no taste, no honor, no devotion, no awareness, no friend, no peace, no grasp of another’s interior life, no thanks, no reflection, no relief from resentment, no humbleness in awe of creation, no escaping the nameless dread of mortality they can’t outrun with cash, political pawns, or an LBO

To quote Megan Draper’s Marxist father on Mad Men, callously referring to the assassination of MLK, “I applaud the escalation of decay.” Not generally an accelerationist but where enshittification is concerned I can see the logic. Maybe if it gets bad enough we’ll move on.

Trump looks like a 13 year-old losing her mind with glee because the most popular girl in the 8th grade came to her birthday party.
“Hey Zohran, my mom bought Goldfish and I know you love those. Want another Diet DP? Wanna play Roblox? Just pretend it’s your birthday too!”

Do these guys read with their penises? Like is there a form of braille for horny journalists that allows them to read mediocre writing with their already erect hogs? Wtf?

Dude, I can relate. November has been like a daily interaction with a middle school bully who was held back two grades. *slap* “Stop hitting yourself!” *slap* ”HA HA why are you hitting yourself?” Would love a return to uneventful routine.

YouTube video by Like Stories of Old The 50 Most Life-Changing Movies

Hop in my toboggan of wonder and imagination, we’ll zoom away from distressing political discourse. This young man (w/a soothing voice) has (imho) the best film analysis/appreciation channel on YouTube. This one discards film ranking in favor of thematic categories.💫
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That’s so strange. I just listened to Second Coming, front to back, two days ago. And it’s still spectacular. Mani’s bass work on “Breaking Into Heaven” and “Love Spreads” puts me in a trance. He left an incredible legacy. RIP Mani. 💜