Elman Steven

My discord movie club is coming back this month. Well, this week actually. I’ll have a more detailed announcement with a patreon post once i get to LA in the next couple day, but i can share this month’s theme: KIYOSHI KUROSAWA SANS* HORROR.

Stay tuned for more info!

*SANS = WITHOUT

I would love to see the results of this poll.

If you are submitting a list for my Best Experimental Cinema of the 21st Century poll, you now have until 11:59 on Sunday August 3.

If you'd like to participate by submitting an unranked list of 15 titles, let me know. I've received 65 votes and would still love to have more.

Brian Eno Announces Together for Palestine Benefit Concert in London Eno is executive producing “a night of music, reflection and hope” at Wembley Arena, with a lineup to be announced

Brian Eno Announces Together for Palestine Benefit Concert in London | Pitchfork share.google/gltVzTcRvpI1...

Bill Burr Says ‘CNN and Fox News Are a F—ing Disease,’ Fires Back at ‘Horrible’ Conservatives Bashing Him as ‘Woke’: ‘They’re Racists’ and ‘Cowards’ Bill Burr says the conservatives calling him "woke" are "racists" and "cowards."

You don't need a Joe Rogan for the left. What we all need to do is take Bill Burr's lead. Every time a Republican goes after him, he doesn't debate him. He just insults them and tells them to go fuck themselves. We don't need one person to do this. We should all just do this.

Cute still featuring Bonnie Bedelia, Anthony Edwards, and Diane Delano.

Jonathan Kaplan was an excellent director and a fascinating person. His commentary with Tim Hunter on the Over the Edge video is an all-timer; both were shaped by their fathers' entanglements with the blacklist. The sheer breadth of his work always impressed me--Heart Like a Wheel a case in point.

I see director Jonathan Kaplan has died.

It's never a bad time to check out his youth-gone-wild coming-of-age film "Over the Edge" (starring Matt Dillon in his film debut), about teens rebelling against their sell-out parents and soulless planned community.

Supposedly a Kurt Cobain favorite.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Today's post was about what it means that high tariffs are probably here to stay, and I thought that people might want to see some meta notes about it.

First, the long-run efficiency losses from tariffs aren't as big as many probably imagine 1/

I never finished it, but the book is pretty interesting.

1972's Unholly Rollers rules. AIP film w/ Scorsese as supervising editor. roller derby as pro wrestling. Claudia Jennings giving what should be an iconic performance of shoulder-chip anger, a woman whose experiences have made her pure exposed nerve w/ a drive to invite violence upon herself & others

Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students Trump officials are using rules, policies and agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.

Wow. Had not realized that Columbia’s settlement with Trump admin included a commitment to decrease international student enrollment. In what way does this help “combat antisemitism,” which is supposedly the administration’s objective?
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Elvis and the Real Colonel Parker - Book and Film Globe The standard view of Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager, is that he was a shyster, a conniving conman who manipulated Presley as he saw fit,

I spoke with #PeterGuralnick about his book #TheColonelAndTheKing for #BookAndFilmGlobe bookandfilmglobe.com/books/the-re... #Elvis #ElvisPresley #ColTomParker

Two Jo Stafford CD compilations.

Current listening.

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

YouTube video by Brìghde Chaimbeul Brìghde Chaimbeul - Bog an Lochan

By gum, she's the Terry Riley of bagpipes! youtu.be/4KImkTRY4iM?...

The Musician Bringing the Bagpipes Into the Avant-Garde Brìghde Chaimbeul frees her instrument from the confines of kitsch.

Instant-click headline: "The Musician Bringing the Bagpipes Into the Avant-Garde"

Donate to Support Angie in Protecting Our Latin Community, organized by Angelica Vargas My name is Angelica Vargas, and I am the sole organizer and intended r… Angelica Vargas needs your support for Support Angie in Protecting Our Latin Community

Her gofundme if interested

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cactuscloudsart Today I discovered a woman called "Angie the ICE Chaser" on TikTok and she literally just follows ICE vehicles in her car. They become increasingly erratic in their attempts to lose her (breaking sooo many laws on camera) and they never do. She is single handedly striking terror into ICE agents across LA. She also follows them through neighborhoods honking her horn and shouting "THEY ARE ICE!" out her window. There is a GFM for gas money and the legal fees she is fully expecting to come around.

Hero

Building an alternative to the manosphere and it’s the VULVADOME. Guitar solos and mimosas and kickboxing while we karaoke Heart songs and wear LISA FRANK ALL DAY ALL NIGHT.

It's true!

A badly photoshopped image of Leatherface, swinginging his chainsaw in the final shot of Texas Chain-Saw Massacre, superimposed over the rolling grass and blue sky Windows 95 backdrop.

Texas Chain-saw Massace at the Sphere.

Pretty sure I saw it as a rental from @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social

Yes, Sydney Sweeney Is A Registered Republican There we have it...

buzzfeed reporting sydney sweeney has been registered as a republican voter in florida since last summer

Colorful painted portrait of James Baldwin, seated

To mark James Baldwin's birthday - he was born on this day in 1924 - a stunning portrait of the writer by Beauford Delaney. The two men were close, & Delaney painted many portraits of Baldwin

This is very true. And it doesn't have to just be the person that you're with that you invest that joy in. Spread that as widely as you can. Share everything that interests you. Encourage people. Use whatever reach you have to celebrate a wide array of human art and effort. It's good for you.

I think maybe the one film I'd like to experience at the Sphere is Derek Jarman's Blue.

Your kids attend that school? It's a remarkable building.