Apparition

Yeah! This is harder to remember than it should be because period stories hardly ever capture the outsider status of old counterculture in the right way. Liking grunge wasn’t something that made unpopular kids secretly cool when people got to know them, often it was part of why they were uncool!

2010s Roger Deakins was tapped into very powerful magic. The year before Skyfall he shot In Time, a little sci-fi heist movie that made basically no impact on the culture. It’s gorgeous. Style for days.

That's weird, she just told me that she didn't even race today.

I once got so into optimizing an editing workflow that I ended up reading a whole wiki on bash scripting, all of Python’s docs, and most of ffmpeg’s man page. At no point while I was accidentally teaching myself how to program did it occur to me that ffmpeg stood for anything

Right? It’s the logo being the exact same that gets me. They want us to believe that the original Zima logo is so iconic, so perfect at selling clear malted beverages that it became that era’s Coca-Cola, a logo completely out of time

I remember someone mentioning this once while criticizing the show and I assumed they were joking

The outcome they want is for trans people to have no public visibility. Bathroom bans offer the same Catch 22, they only serve to make it less safe for trans people and anyone who's the least bit gender-nonconforming to appear in public

It’s livestreaming to the pendulum’s GoFundMe page

This is it. Leonardo does not smoke, he drinks an alarming number of cans of Celsius

Oh I don’t like this at all unless he actually ends up at DH and this is more about giving Eldridge more time in the minors. And I don’t love that either but at least it would be consistent with them saying they don’t want to rush player development

“A lot of people on the left and the right were mad at us for using our daughter as a prop for our contrarian brand, that’s how we knew we were doing the right thing!”

It is kind of silly! Also audacious in a way I really like. Communal joy is something i haven’t seen too many Hollywood movies handle convincingly, and Coogler took a big swing at being not only effective at it, but distinctive. Didn’t take me all the way out, but there’s silliness there

Colbert playing comic relief on the PA in Starfleet Academy is giving the show a bit of a MASH vibe

What I especially love about this is how the aesthetics work not only as an expression of Starfleet’s hopes post-Burn, but also as an expression of where the civilization is technologically. Programmable matter and effortless site-to-site transport have freed designers to be more artistic

I love Quiet Posters! It makes a huge difference from Mastodon, where I always felt like I was missing stuff from anyone who wasn't posting multiple times a day.

Love the tension in the final panel between Nancy Jr.'s heart bubble and frown

The art of living with ourselves and others

I learn chocolate chip cookie baking types just by breathing, but we have no such collective knowledge for peanut butter cookies, the cookie with the steepest slope between “This is transcendent” and “This tastes like sand”

lovely little logic loop here. the left have accurately described reality, but i still think they're wrong, so what if it was somehow in fact the left's describing of reality that perverted history to make them right. quantum politics. no fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!

Ooooh great idea for a theme, looking forward to it!

Very few films starting scenes mid-parrot screech these days. The old ways of keeping stories humming along have much to teach us

I didn't want to see Kane as a kid, figured I'd pieced the story together from Simpsons refs, and it still blew me away when I saw it In high school. Granted, I was the kind of teen taking high school film electives, but I was also your average knee-jerk contrarian teen. I immediately loved it.

Weight Room out of Great Hall is brutal. "Good luck farming more keys now!"

Barney from The Simpsons sitting at the bar and wishing a quick goodbye to his improbably named friend “bdbdbdbdb00”

It reminds me of the feeling of flying into San Francisco and being surrounded by ads for network security products. Like, oh, you're not paying for my attention and literally don't want it, these ads are grabbing my attention and then throwing it back like an undersized fish

Yeah it's so good here! Some of the later Alice In Chains stuff with Inez is great.

YouTube video by AliceInChainsVEVO Alice In Chains - What the Hell Have I (Official Video)

The Last Action Hero soundtrack is another good one for this. Like, this is entirely too fine of an Alice In Chains song to be buried in a movie nobody but me saw

That’s the trick I suppose, so many people have already built up a sense of resentment to the idea of being obligated to anyone outside their immediate sphere

Contemporaneous reviews of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid": How dare they combine the epic mode of storytelling with lowly comedic banter. Utterly gauche

Me watching it: I get it. They're doing an anime. They're doing a Cowboy Bebop. Cool

The Apartment has its moments too, Wilder had a knack for weird Christmas movies