Alex Sepiol

Indeed. It’s NY and LA and then the next tier. Would probably say for that: Chicago, Miami, DC, SF, Houston, Boston, Philly, Seattle, Atlanta.

in so many ways MR. ROBOT was ahead of its time in its approach to character, understanding that every person is a dynamic blend of past, present, desire, regret, fury and loneliness; representation, but more. was just walking about the mosque scene the other day. a highlight in prestige TV.

NY Times push alert that reads: Chaos at the D.N.C. The Democratic National Committee has been plagued by infighting and a drop in big donations, raising alarm as the party tries to win back power.

It’s almost comforting that we can always count on the Times to raise this as news.

fake congas 0:00 snare enters 0:15 stiff funk bass 0:29 arpeggiated synth line 0:48 arpeggiated synth bass fades in 0:50 bass riff and wall of synth strings 1:17 strings jump an octave 1:24 double clap 1:35 "I know you know we believe in a land of love" underpinned with roller coaster bass 2:01 slappy syncopated guitar and punctuating bell 2:16 cheeky reference to masturbation? 2:56 unusual melody jump on "often thought he WAS deranged" 3:06 vocal growl on "HAVE some fun" 3:13 "now I know the perfect kiss is the kiss of death" 3:54 latin cowbell/percussion blocks 3:59 gritty synth bludgeons in 4:13 space blaster FX and warm pad breakdown 4:59 frogs 5:13 Gillian's majestic synth stack 6:12 Hooky noodling 6:26 windmill guitar chords 6:56 bass descends into nothing 7:47 brake squeal and car crash ending 7:56 other (please specify)

Over on ILX there's a new thread called "Let's determine the best moment of New Order's The Perfect Kiss on Substance" and these are the options in the poll and 1) accurate, all of them and 2) I am in agonies that there is no "ALL OF THEM" option.

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday
Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name
Genie: okie dokie

THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem.

Right fucking now.

Pornify a classic:

Jules in Jim

Only Angels Have Wings
8 1/2
Masculin Feminin
Casablanca
Pale Flower

(The prompt is a little buried now but it’s post five favorite black and white films)

Comment period for this ends TODAY, so please take a minute and submit a comment. I just sent mine in.

John Malkovich in Empire of the Sun has a wonderfully roguish charisma.

Poker Face season 2 launches TODAY on Peacock! It’s a case-of-the-week episodic show, an ode to stuff like Columbo, Rockford… fun guest stars each week, truly episodic so you can pretty much drop into any episode. No heavy lifting, just a good time every time. Share & enjoy!

Remake a movie to avoid the tariff challenge:

Last Tango in Akron

YouTube video by Movieclips The Limey (8/11) Movie CLIP - Stacy the Hitman (1999) HD

Nicky Katt was such an electric performer. I was forever a fan of his after seeing this scene from the Limey.

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Shorter Trump: The coconut milk is off!

From The NY Times: "There's obviously an ongoing negotiation with Russia and Ukraine, and I think the president made the decision not to conflate the two issues." Russia pays no tariffs under the president's current system; Ukraine, the victim of Moscow's 2022 invasion, pays 10 percent.)

I know we have all theoretically moved on from Russiagate, but what in the kompromat is this?!

If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?

move slowly and build things

Val Kilmer as Chris Knight in Real Genius

Val Kilmer in Real Genius is one of my favorite performances in film. Rarely a day goes by that one of his lines doesn’t float through my head and make me smile.

YouTube video by Sergiu Mihai Rotariu Velvet Goldmine- Baby's On Fire

The mystique of performance, erotic bummer sex, masturbation, glam rock, scopohilia, gel lighting: I'm realizing that the "Baby's On Fire" sequence from Velvet Goldmine is my entire artistic and aesthetic Rosetta stone

In the midst of all this (waves hands), was still a good movie week.

sometimes I wish that the U.S. made third parties feasible, but right now I'd settle for a second

The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan. About the collapse of the Roman republic.

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

Someone has probably already said this but I think the Oscar shutout is weirdly helpful for Challengers’ long term reputation.

On the morning of 22 March, before Manin could start an insurrec-tion, a mutiny broke out in the boatyards of the Venetian arsenal. Here, local grievances were in play. The 800-odd workmen of the boatyards, known as arsenalotti, had repeatedly demanded a pay rise from their chief supervisor, a notoriously merciless Croat by the name of Captain Marinovic. Marinovic's habitual reply to such demands was: 'forse la prossima settimana' - 'perhaps next week'. Amidst surging grain prices, tensions in the boatyards rose in early March. On 18 March, the arsen-alotti learned that they would be barred from the newly instituted Civic Guard. This was unsurprising, given that the guard had been instituted precisely to protect the propertied classes against aroused proletarians. On 21 March, when the men of the boatyards petitioned the commander of the guard to admit them to its ranks, resentment over wages and the Civic Guard reached boiling point. When Marinovic turned up to work on the following morning, he was the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. A group of arsenalotti chased him through the yards and up a tower, mortally wounded him with a knife, and dragged him down the stairs by his feet. Still barely alive, he asked for a priest, to which his tormentors replied: 'perhaps next week'.

1848 was crazy, y’all. “Perhaps next week” is so vicious.

From Christopher Clark’s Revolutionary Spring.

Does anyone have access to private security to protect our home in Naboo? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses are occupied by the Empire. Will pay any amount. Thank you.

Glimpsed the future today (saw a dirty Waymo rolling down the street with no passengers).