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every now and then you go to a bar, at least in nyc, and it's like you're talking to an actor. there's a kind of performance

america doesn't get enough credit for how much it values cocktails. people really give a shit about them and are willing to pay for them.

the whole thing is different. the bartender in a pub is just someone who is there to give you a drink that's it. in the US they are sort of an enlarged figure. a personality. there's more of a financial relationship between the two of you

the aid/humanitarian world is properly spinning from trump freezing all funding. way worse than what anyone was expecting, including the people who work with the us government on a day to day basis and whose job it is to know about these things. no-one knows what's going on coz the orders are...

he'll be in that bottleneck bit before you go up into that weird fancy hotel lobby

go to the lobby afterwards and have a chat with him ask him the questions you ask on dissensus about who you should kill and your love life. ask him if you should kill woops

yeah you're right but he's great at that thing of bringing these disparate things and ideas together that kind of de-fracturing thing where he's making the world make sense by drawing these connections. it was unbelievable to me at the time to realize you could just do that

you're not allowed to show off like that in a pub you have to show off with what you say and by making jokes no-one is impressed by what you've bought to drink

you can have one spirit and one mixer and maybe some ice. you're not allowed anything else

i read pretty much the entirity of the k punk blog in winter 2010-11 on my desktop in my houseshare sitting up at night getting really into it, and then for about four years i wouldn't shut up about it

i dunno actually. you're right though that all those things are connected in my memory, k punk dubstep children of men, i was into all of that at about the same time. i impulse downloaded the film yesterday

my important opinions are in the other thread i am just mentioning it for the future biographers and archivists who will trawl through this thanks

the other thing it made me think of was pj harvey let england shake in that it really had the english countryside and an idea of england at it's heart and both the album and the film did this thing of overlaying so many historical events over one another. lots of ww2 but also the intifadas but...

the bit where they go through all those sort of stillage things to get into the refugee camp reminds me so much of the border into the west bank from jordan that it can't have been accidental actually the whole camp had a lot of palestine in it

yeah i hadn't seen it since the first time i saw it in 2012 and i remembered all of that too, was waiting for it

kind of a racist film by today's standards or at least you can see why the twitter bombardment in response to hackneyed slightly off representation things has had good consequences

yeah it's set in 2027

i was at this

saw children of men again for the first time since it came out it's still pretty brilliant although a film set in 2027 where they're rounding up and deporting migrants feels a bit on the nose. he managed to capture the countryside morning light somehow despite being mexican

you can get a gin and tonic or a vodka redbull, those are cocktails