Valarie Smith

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch SLC PUNK! (1998) 💚 Fueled by an energetic star performance by @ogmatthewlillard.bsky.social, a classic punk soundtrack, and kinetic visual verve, this is a madcap story of one rebel’s search for a way to grow up without selling out.

Oh, we were just talking about wanting to see this. Looking forward to it!

WITH A RITA’S MASCOT!!!!

Omg, the El Gato food truck 🥰

Letizia Battaglia did more than document Mafia crimes; she captured the raw, pulsing soul of Sicily, primarily between the mid-1970s and the early 1990s.
Through her lens, she exposed the stark poverty, the forgotten children, and the defiant dignity of the Sicilian people.

You need the protein for all that heavy lifting!

Dispelling an urban myth, @davehaslam.bsky.social determined some years ago that not *every* sale cost Factory Records!

Weird, right?

Same!

Exactly - no one interested me at all so honestly, I didn't care what happened.

I found that book torturous and my opinion of it never improved. But I am way, way in the minority.

Sometimes those are my favorite kinds of film.

I’ve always loved the central staircase at the US Customs House in Portland, which this 2013 photo reminds me. I think it’s Escher-esque. Too bad the building, renovated a decade ago and initially a WeWork shared office facility, has now been vacant for years.

It’s unfathomable that those two worlds could ever have collided.

Ha, fascinating.

That is shocking. Someone was flying a little too close to the sun.

No, I know. I was exaggerating for effect. A little hyperbole seems a good way to start my weekend!

He had such a presence in his younger days. You just know he has some stories to tell.

His naturally antic disposition means he’s very good at making things accessible.

Ooh, that’s a fun way to start. And I did see a version of Macbet with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo a couple years ago that was quite good - very spare and minimalist.

Oasis and the first song on their first album, Rock and Roll Star

I’d never heard of him before. Thanks for passing that along.

«that's what art is meant to be about, is rescuing people from the fear of death and the fear of life […] and I believe the artist is there to question and to destroy and cut up […] and collide any possibility that they see in order to try and save people from being dead»

Genesis P-Orridge, 1986.

Omg, whoa! Your notifications are probably like a strobe light right now.

Amazing find on Facebook (thanks to Kiara Walker and Charlene Weiss for pointing it out). Looks like Charlie and John Justice Wheeler share a similar wardrobe (strengthening the theory that Charlie is a product of Audrey’s memory).

* Tony Leung-in-a-contemplative-film klaxon *

“They are beautiful. They are sacred.”

From the criterion community on Reddit: Agnès Varda and Harrison Ford bundled up on the set of her documentary ‘L’univers de Jacques Demy’ (1995) Explore this post and more from the criterion community

TIL Harrison Ford and Agnes Varda were both close to Jim Morrison (he was a Doors roadie, she may have been 1 of 4 people at JM's funeral) and she interviewed Ford in her World of Jacques Demy documentary, presumably bc he'd almost starred in a Demy film in LA.

The lady on the HOA board that tells you to mow your lawn vs Charon the boatsmen on the River Styx