Search results

feels like it's been 5 degrees for six months up here. gray rainy days, feels like anything else must be bought at a price. headed to London in easter, hopefully it's nicer.

After a while it felt a bit like a pageant of contemporary arthouse horror tropes. Some of it was very vivid and slick and gut-wrenching but it did reach a point of diminishing returns. Thought the fictional nation setting was the most interesting idea.

War of the Worlds. Shocked at how good it was actually. Something brilliantly theatrical, operatic about it, how it basks in the logic of the stage without sacrificing the poignancy of the horror. Tom Cruise as the archetypal American, the confident American, the apolitical American, who has a...

yes.

the film was unwatchable. people talk about films being prolonged advertisements for themselves but this truly was

It's a good picture, you look very friendly and softhearted.

Yes, well done.

I have always thought the essence of film lies in the cut. I think it is in the juxtaposition of two disparate elements that meaning is filled out by the viewer. Obviously films are different and this is not the only way they can work on you. But I don't think of them as continuous or whole...

I have a middle name but I can't do yoga

something about these triple names isn't there?

When I was a teenager I used to think that depressed people were the ones that had realized a larger truth about existence and the world. I thought they were the most exciting people. Later I realized most of them were just unhappy with their lives/themselves. Partly by being one myself.

Brilliant!

I have thought about thinking in terms of numerological stages. Any thought travels through a chain of stages, one following from another (1-2-3) as it builds in sophistication until it reaches its breaking point (9) and resolves back into nothing (0) leaving only the memory trace of the...

The Last of Us started well I thought but turned out pretty dull and lifeless.

I think there is a similarity to what Lynch in a way. It is more of a mood than a feeling, one that modulates reality to according to its most terrible potential. A Lynchian mood does the same. It sets the antenna to a frequency that you are normally cut off from, a sort of frequency of the...

Sometimes I have nightmares that summon a feeling of fear or terror that is beyond anything I've felt while awake but that is rarely connected to images that would normally be frightening. It is often evoked by something like a patch of grass in a certain brownish hue or being in a familiar...

but why would you go there if you are interested in "culture"? there isn't a single person living there now who wants part of that plus if you have fun they shoot you against a wall

Feels like a waste they didn't do something like this with their own cities. Same goes for Dubai. Instead of abstracted simulacra of western modernism we could have had a proper Islamic futurism.

@suspended are there still people in New York who talk like Woody Allen? Was watching Manhattan yesterday and came to wonder about it. The way they're all speaking. It seems like an exctinct prosody but is it?

I Am Love. The Suspiria remake was ok I thought. Call me by your name annoyed me. Haven't seen many Italian flims that were made after 1990. I like Sorrentino even though he's probably only done one great thing. Went to see Eight Mountains in the weekend and was dissappointed. Wholesome...