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Some brilliant bits there. Ulysses as short story. I agree with the oral tradition, prioritising craic and willingness to abuse the language as being the main powers at play. But it’s a biiit much isn’t it? The inscrutability of the Irish psyche thing I am very suspect of. patronising the wee...

Anthony Burgess foreword to a short story collection: Any man, whatever his nationality, has a right to admire and to propagandize for Irish literature, but it helps if he possesses Irish blood or a mad capacity for empathizing with Ireland. Although I call myself an Englishman, my grandmother...

Could listen to him all day

Wipe those wee white bits from the side of your mouth and relax anto

Was watching an interview with burgess the other day and he was making all kinds of of very funny generalisations about catholics and Protestants and Welsh sexuality with breathtaking conviction and authority. He was answering the questions before the interviewer finished asking

Certain directors get a free pass and are too big to challenge. Too much money invested and deadlines to hit, people to be paid, show must go on, can’t stop it …. Total muck, failed satire, awful writing, hammy overegged acting, all kinds of unresolved threads, tonally jarring, piss piss piss

I absolutely loved the host and parasite too, but wha the fuck was that and how did it get made

Just watched mickey 17 and it might be the worst thing I’ve ever seen. Considered walking out, still angry about it. Incoherent embarrassing mess straining and failing to be funny for 2 hours

duh

You are the magic @Corpsey

But the trick is to realise YOU are the magic son

We are desperate to find the magic elsewhere

Teh red car theory

Awe at your own pattern finding capabilities projected out

baader mein Hoff complex

Yes I watched it on a Sunday comedown with my girlfriend at the time and we were sick and drained after but blown away. The piano scene is the best on screen flirtation I’ve seen because it captures real awkwardness, spontaneity etc. and when it all goes tits up… nerves wrecked. They got it all...

It works cos it mostly focuses on the confusion and emotional impact of those around the boy. Chasm of understanding between online teenage world and teachers parents therapist etc, and doesn’t go into what the manosphere looks like … or how the conspiratorial mind feels, the thrills and...

the one take play format is so immersive. One of my favourite films of the last while Victoria was one the first to do this really well. You’re there with the characters, it’s visceral and also opens up these boring frustrating moments where you want out and that can add to the distress and the...

the first and second episodes are especially good, and it has clearly achieved what it intended to

No I think it’s definitely worth watching and your comparison is lazy. There are some hammy moments as you’d expect with the one take format, it’s essentially a play