Dr Kate Fitzgerald

Six mysterious 'Twin Peaks' deaths in Balkan Mountains stir controversy Six unsolved deaths in two remote parts of the Balkan Mountains become a source of conspiracy across Bulgaria.

Ooh a ‘lodge’ caught ‘fire’ under cryptic and disturbing circumstances. It shits me when news outlets liken a real incident to fiction. “It was just like a movie.” Of course it fucking was! What do you think film is a reflection of? An abstract, alien void?

a cartoon character is sitting in front of a computer with the letter c on the screen Alt: Ralph from THE SIMPSONS sitting in front of a computer typing ‘cat’ onto the screen. He then turns to Lisa and says: “I’m learnding!”

Bloody hell I’m slow on the uptake sometimes. I was just thinking about the film WANDA, and realised the significance of her name. Because she WANDERS.

“Making a beautiful painting isn’t about making power. It’s empowering yourself to feel something, and then if you’ve done it correctly, other people look at it and feel something, too.”

Princess Mononoke (1997): The Endless Rage of Hayao Miyazaki A sense of warring duality is everywhere in Princess Mononoke: selfishness and altruism, nature and humanity, life and death.

“Rage may be the only sane reaction to humanity as a whole; if you cannot forgive it, Hayao Miyazaki agrees with you. But as long as you keep trying to live in peace, he’ll keep making art for you.”

@timm.2840:
"I AM A 74 YEAR OLD GUY AND I APPRECIATE THE BOLD TYPE BECAUSE I DO NOT SEE AS WELL AS I ONCE DID. HARRY HAD SUCH TALENT AND TOO MANY DEMONS.7/25/2022 TIM M."

@oldskoolmusicforever0724:
"YES INDEED TIM"

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Day 21.
The comments are beautiful:
@oldskoolmusicforever0724: "I'M A NEARLY 60 YEAR OLD BLACK MAN AND THIS IS STILL ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS.AND NO NEED TO THINK I'M YELLING AT YOU OR ANYONE ELSE READING THIS.I JUST PREFER TO TYPE IN BIG LETTERS.IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE FROM ME TO YOU." /1

Oh snap! Similarly, I had a Coke Zero, but it was out of my hands at the time. It's quite a caffeinated film, now I think about it...

Screenshot from MALPERTUIS (1971) 1 of 2. A weird little man dressed in colourful rags enters a room proudly holding up a taxidermied rat that has been posed standing on its hind legs.

Screenshot from MALPERTUIS (1971) 2 of 2. Cassavius (Orson Welles), sits up in a large bed. He is wearing a black suit. Next to him is a man in a black suit and bowler hat. Cassavius is looking at his servant, who sits at the foot of his bed, holding a taxidermied rat. “Magnificent”, he says. Lying at his feet is a platter with a roast piglet on it.

I’m not even 30 mins into MALPERTUIS, but I had to stop and commemorate the day I saw Orson Welles receive a roast piglet and taxidermied rat on his death bed.

Isn’t that Nadine from Twin Peaks?

Harmony Korine Avoids Books, Doesn’t See Movies and Thinks AI Is the Art Form That Holds the Most Promise The provocateur director is feeling his artistic oats. It's just that the art isn't cinema.

Observations:
1. ‘Cat Astronauts’. MMELRD.
2. I’m sure he readsTerry Richardson coffee table books, though.
3. Artists who don’t consume the art of others are setting themselves up for failure; like those douchebags that say they ‘don’t watch tv’ like it gives them some kind of intellectual purity.

Bud Cort, Who Starred in 1971’s ‘Harold and Maude,’ Dies at 77

Many of the obituaries for the late an wildly talented Bud Cort mention his breakout role in Harold and Maude, and thst film’s director, the legendary Hal Ashby. But they forget to cite Colin Higgins. Who wrote it. Without whom: no Harold, no Maude.

Yes, we have received your AI drafted pitches and yes we can tell they are AI and no we won’t be replying to those, you are wasting your time friendo

Me fucking too! Sick of it.

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Day 20.

Forest owlet drawing, a strange strident intimidating bird rendered with messiness and confidence in oil pastels

Moluccan masked owl, a sweet barn owl like owl rendered in messy scratchy green heavy oil pastels

Take That on buttery yellow pastel mat, drawing in earth tone red brown pastel pencils. Five 1992 boys introducing 12 year old girls to abs and rave noises and balladry

Hoot hoot! I have now added these two interesting owl drawings and this one buttery yellow Take That drawing (inevitably) to these two linked galleries:

www.chloecumming.com/birds

www.chloecumming.com/almost-drawi...

Share and do look if these things appeal or strike you as admirable

A screenshot from my Letterboxd showing I watched IT’S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY and gave it five stars and now I’m sad.

Crying, sobbing, throwing up.

A white lamb standing in a grassy field of white clover and looking at the camera

✿⁠♡✿⁠

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Day 19.

Was going to pick 'Jet', but I prefer the Alan Partridge version.

1. They love DAISIES, so hopefully there's a drive to emulate.
2. I watched FASCINATION for the first time last night to finally see what the lady with the big scythe was about. Now THAT'S an image.
3. Love it.
4. Of course not!
5. Ah, gotcha.

YouTube video by Kermode and Mayo's Take Mark Kermode reviews Melania

"It's a heist movie."

Fantastic review of the Excalibur set over at The Digital Bits. I'm over the moon that people are finally getting to see the results of all our hard work!

I do. Doesn't have to be a big studio film. True, most big-name actors wouldn't be keen, but back then they had minuscule budgets & cast relative unknowns, which I'd prefer, anyway. Anna Biller is doing it. GenZs are into the Czech New Wave/Jean Rollin 'aesthetic' rn, so the A24 kids would be down.

Wuthering Heights review – Emerald Fennell’s adaptation is astonishingly bad Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s performances are almost pushed to the border of pantomime, while Fennell’s provocations seem to define the poor as sexual deviants and the rich as clueless prudes

Saying she intended to make a film that reflected her misreading of the book at 14 seems like an excuse devised after the backlash. Still haven't seen it, but I feel as though she's just dressing up her desire to make erotica. I'd love to see a woman take on a style akin to Borowczyk or Franco.

When Bono said: "A mole, digging in a hole, digging up my soul," I felt that.

Right? He should have been out there with a "you call it pretentious, I call it sublime" attitude.

All the cool kids love Pandora's Box.

Excellent, and thank you for sharing. :)

Brand Upon the Brain VHS covers that haunt me.

📽️ I saw that one of my bsky mutuals @katefitzgerald.bsky.social made this Letterboxd list and I'm loving the VHS covers she selected, but it's also genuinely a great list of movies, check it out!

It was so fun to make! Still adding to it as well.

This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. - Michael West NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peace protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia.

one of the few outlets to publish an accurate account of NSW police brutality. Most media seem very confused by the fact that police blocked the exits and then police attacked people with pepper spray, fists, and steel cap boots.

michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...