Search results

Are there people at the cinemas in London? Over here they're nearly empty whenever I go, even friday saturday nights.

I don't know how to assess it in categorigal terms. Obviously real life seems to goes on in a normal way more or less independent of the internet. But nothing we call culture can really be exctricated anymore. It bears the mark on a cellular level. I also think the way we engage with art...

tentpole of ambivalence

"The discourse" once seemed very important to me, what position to take, what kind of people to align yourself with and so on. I never really engaged actively on twitter, I just began to reflexively view myself through the lens of whoever seemed like the right people online. The lines being...

A guy like Southgate was actually a good look for you, a mitigating countenance against some of these characters, Foden, Kane, Bellingham, Pickford, Rio Ferdinand, Gary Nevillle, that the world has to suffer on your account.

Feel a bit sad for you lads but lately I have also come upon a new level of disgust with English football culture so mostly I have to say I was very pleased.

With Paul Thomas Anderson the feeling that persists with me is that, for all the talent and originality, his movies all seem like exercises. Exercises in something that I have to force myself to be interested in.

Luca Guadagnino fits on there doesn't he.

I think for kids (the ones under 20 now) it's true that there is so seperation. One thing I have been rather impressed by is the way they coin new phrases and words, which don't just replace old terms but which seem to also alter and intensify the meaning of the word. Like 'rizz' for example...

Good question. I don't feel any emotional connection to the actual content and interactions I see on the internet, they don't make me angry or sad or whatever. But on the deeper levels it feels like there is a structuring effect that stays with you after logging off. This Zizek/Lacanian take...

Giving Ulysses a crack. Got stuck on the Shakespeare library dialogue a week ago and haven't picked it up since.

All our countryside is cultivated land. Bureaucratic landscape. Mondrian nightmare land. Really making me insane the more I think about it. What you want, ideally, is a binary of total city and total nature. The feeling of an inside and an outside.

I'm increasingly convinced that as a cultural site, music has lost its relevance. It doesn't feel essential anymore. The meaning of what it communicated--something once self-evident and immediate, something that always acted as an internal guiding principle--has dissipated. Leaving us with an...

Bresson's notebooks. Pretty good. Has these great out of context lines like "The ejaculatory force of the eye."

what did you think?

that's probably an obvious observation but i can't seem to get over it

the problem with money is it has become too absurd. it's always been absurd but it's now getting shoved in your face 24/7 how the worst most stupid people you can imagine are raking in money on generic schemes while normal people are killing themselves over not having enough. it simultaneously...

apparently there is a new breed of tik tok influencers showing young enterprising men how to make easy bucks online. they say if you're over 20 and have less then 10k in the bank then you're a pathetic loser

SLow Horses is decent

well yes that's true