Humble

Heat diner scene, etc

Yang Wenli-ist thought

Tempting as a prot to qualify, but Francis seemed a good man who met this moment in history in a rare way. I will see him again.

Tbh if you want to see the "Ghibli style" being used to make historical atrocities more approachable and to struggle with the beauty it can't help but find there, The Wind Rises is one of the greatest movies ever made.

Severance S2: Villains are always trying to be God, and a variation of that I enjoy is when they're trying to get back to the Garden

I think a lot of people are generally unaware of how much american good faith, goodwill and foreign aid underpin a lot of bits of the world

The thing is "who is my neighbor and how should I treat him" is the #1, hit you over the head ethical lesson of the New Testament

I am not exaggerating when I say that JD Vance is literally taking antichrist viewpoints. Jesus explicitly does not say what Vance is claiming but actually regularly preaches against it.

Christ literally says one cannot be His disciple if he adheres to Vance’s views.

2024

Ryoichi Ikegami, chirashi art for David Lynch’s Dune, 1984

Both Mormons end up being varying levels of "we don't really believe this stuff but religion is a nice idea," which is an even more condescending an idea than his, so it sure seems like it thinks he should just be more normal about it. Probably a third attribute it thinks his ideas are is "scary."

Finished Neuromancer and I kinda think it's like, an ok book

Thinking about Orual

Something I don't see ppl comment on that I hear from my dad about all the time about is how drudge has been very anti trump for years. Really funny but I wonder what the guy's audience is now.

Review of ‘Pickpocket’ (1959) 'Pickpocket' Part 1 - Los Angeles Free Press – April 25-May 1, 1969 A custom of Medieval architecture holds that the final portion of a structure should be left unfinished, perhaps a cupola or…

Incredible boxd.it/6WtnHv

Insane Kogonada directs those episodes, Columbus is wonderful

It was just so odd how the subsequent eps in both cases either expositionally recap the flashback episode details, or let the audience be ahead of the character for kind of a long time and then have the info "revealed" to them.

Performed an experiment and had a friend watch Acolyte and just skip episodes 3 and 7. He claims it didn't feel like he missed anything, though I get u miss some details of the Sol characterization. I like the show in any case.

Going to visit and go to church tomorrow with my very pro Trump and pre-mil family and try to keep from saying "who is like unto the beast?"

Ingrid Bergman in a publicity portrait for Notorious (1946)

Huh, didn't think this kind of thing escaped into the real world

2023

Fell asleep on the phone

Not quite as totally unnerving as Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, but it's a ton of fun to see a conspiracy theory involving fighting with David Bowie to take down the Antichrist, Richard Nixon

Loved PKD's semi-autobiographical Valis, where he works on (and perceives evidence for) a gnostic nightmare exegesis after experiencing a Pauline theophany experienced after a loved ones suicide. It's mostly a man falling apart while doing theology combining every heresy out there, it's awesome.