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there's very little right now in the US, it's very bleak. the lack of organizations with any meaningful power to make demands is why we're having these explosions of protest that then get channeled into removing statues or some other culture war thing. the energy is there but there's no one to...

same w/ this stupid twitter thread about making a batman movie where he fights corrupt cops with the power of mutual aid and community centered policing. obviously these are all things i believe in but it's just so cringe when you try and warp a power fantasy for children to fit your worldview...

dungeons and dragons just did this, they're removing the concept of good and evil races from the game. but ofc the foundation of the entire game is having races with immutable physical and mental characteristics. so now it's this weird thing where everyone has a rich inner life and contains...

i'm reading the cantos really slowly and just noticed Palace in smoky light, Troy but a heap of smouldering boundary stones, and After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The shouting and the crying Prison and palace and...

computer games have been pretty bad at furthering their genres tho, bc the range of actions you can do is so limited. like whats the game equivalent of opening a pulp sci fi mag to find a philip k dick story? and the games that do try to push the boundaries somehow are usually just masturbatory...

also the posts per person per day here is crazy, i'm unemployed and i still can't imagine keeping up.

can't use all my good opinions at once, got to drip them out slowly

i couldn't get into chandler that much but i loved hammett's red harvest and jim thompson's pop. 1280. all the crime and noir stuff i've read from the 50s and 60s has been great actually. i always wonder if there's secretly some really interesting modern day airport fiction that will be reissued...

people hype that episode up a little more than it deserves because its so self consciously artsy but the part that's just 10 minutes of different subatomic particles dancing while threnody for the victims of hiroshima is blaring at you at mega high volume is a very frightening and memorable...

i actually have never seen you post this on the pynchon sub!! i used to lurk here for the music stuff years ago and then stumbled back on bc i started reading blissblog again. and then stumbled onto pynchon sub gossip first thing i clicked.

yea that's why my only posts so far are about twin peaks, pynchon, and the grateful dead. the three shining lights of american culture.

i think its basically the only real description of america in the 2010s. its all set in shitty suburban developments and office parks and has these long boring stretches punctuated with random acts of violence. and it all emanates out of this nuclear demiurge at the heart of everyone and...

the only thing in the last ten years that's correctly communicated what this feels like is twin peaks the return.

brief encounter is a beautiful movie, one of my favorites. the exact opposite of his most well known films in its intimacy and scope but somehow manages to be just as engrossing.

this never came out 😭

timbaland is probably the all time genius but i could listen to mid-tier neptunes productions forever. stuff like this. what pharrell has become is unforgiveable though. timbaland is just past his prime and theres no shame in that. pharrell is front row at chanel or w/e making...

yea, it's a difficult thing to get i think. like i know exactly how it feels to hear tuneless hippie mush, terrible melodies, white blues cheese. the stars have to align for you to grasp it. but i'm pretty sure when i grasp it/when they do it's real and i haven't just fooled myself. i always...

WashYourHands it's cool to me that you're into the dead being from the uk (if i read correctly), cos they're THE quintessential american band to me and i almost feel like its a pointless exercise to sell them to people outside america who weren't bought in. you have to have driven through a...

lol today was the first time i lurked dissensus in like 5+ years and this is the first thread i opened and i know exactly who this is. internet is so big but so small.