El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."
Helena Fitzgerald
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feelings, now more than ever! wrote some stuff in some places
hey movie people, my best friend’s going through it and is looking for some good escapist stuff to watch (see below), wanna send her some recs?
Suzan Eraslan@saturnexalted.bsky.social · 5h agoHey hive mind-- I'm Going Through Some Shit and would love some beautiful, fun, brightly colored, gorgeous movies that work better than drugs to help me escape. Hit me with your favorites for this. Nothing gritty or sad, please. Violence or horror are OK if it's like this movie:
the loudest possible plus one to Bo’s rec for this gorgeous, addictive novel that’s basically “what if Mike Leigh’s Topsy Turvy were about Anne Rice’s Theatre des Vampires, and also the Paris Commune”
Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 2w agooh and if you need something to keep you from going completely cold turkey feral post-lestat, @boneysoups.bsky.social's THE RED SACRAMENT is every bit as good as everybody was saying, the most gorgeous writing i've come across in ages + all the bloodsucking you crave
Yes. Yes yes yes. Much deserved. Still my favorite Mountain Goats album At the risk of making J.D. blush, here's the blurb I wrote about TALLAHASSEE (2002) for my old blog's ranking of '00s tMG albums:
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d agoI don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
I’m aware of how this sounds, but: seats at the opera
Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
impossible to choose the best one of these, I cannot tell you how important it is that you read the entire thread
Louis@louisevans.bsky.social · 6d agoAngela Carter writes like she experiences the regular market the way the rest of us experience The Goblin Market
I went with a friend and her six-month-old to one of these for the Bruce Springsteen movie back in the fall and it’s one of the nicest times I’ve ever had in a movie theater, so much so that I still feel warmly affectionate towards that objectively quite bad movie
Emily St. James@emilystjams.bsky.social · 2d agoNot sure whether this article is about these specifically, but most theater chains do baby-friendly morning screenings with lower volume and the lights up, which was great for us when Child was new. She slept through several movies. Would not dream of taking a baby to a regular screening, tho!
Because the liars are out lying again— I wrote this from Paterson NJ in April 2020
‘Anybody who says they’re not scared during this is lying to you.’ A day in the life of paramedics in a pandemic | CNN
The man lay unconscious in the back of the ambulance, parked in front of the nursing home on the Passaic River. Another life slipping away before the paramedics of Paterson, N.J. For these health care...
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I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...
The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center
The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity
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imagine if the bennet sisters had experienced garlic bread
you, trapped in the The Prisoner torture resort from The Prisoner: trying to figure out how to escape from the torture resort me, trapped in the The Prisoner torture resort from The Prisoner: trying to figure out how I can convince everybody to participate in a basketball rec league
my cool answer is the Elevator to the Gallows score; my real answer is either Lana del Rey’s Born to Die or Carole King’s Tapestry
Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d agoYou have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social
If you’re going to email me late on a Friday, this is the only subject line I will tolerate.
New York City friends! The LES cat cafe Koneko is closing tomorrow and needs urgent help rehoming some kitties. This place was very cute and took good care of their cats. Tell cat curious NYC friends that there are kitties that need some homes. www.instagram.com/p/DbbfOxcGu1V/
I described the ideal casting for Odysseus to Thomas as “somebody you’d take home from a bar even though you know there’s a more-than-halfway-decent chance they’d rob you blind before they left your house” and then we had a lot of fun riffing on past + present actors who have this quality
Anne Helen Petersen@annehelen.bsky.social · 7d agoYou need a guy who's spanning that dangerous bridge between incredibly hot and slightly repulsive, like a crush who intermittently gives you the ick — HELLO, BEN AFFLECK
If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.
standing ovations are somewhat more the norm in UK theater now (still not as much as here) but they still really weren’t in 2015, but the whole audience instantly lept to our feet at the end of this, maybe bc we were scared of what she’d do to us if we didn’t
Thomas@thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 7d agoOne of the most terrifying and electrifying experiences of my entire life was seeing Helen McCrory on stage in MEDEA at The National Theatre. Music by Goldfrappe. 90 minutes. No intermission. @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social and I were sitting a few rows back from the front, dead center. Incredible.
my feelings on this are pretty straightforward: if you have a problem with poor people having greater access to less expensive food then you’re a fucking psycho.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.Weird how much discourse around the Mamdani grocery stores ignores the existence of the Green Cart intiative (launched under Bloomberg) that provides subsidized fruit and vegetable stands across the city under the exact same logic as the grocery stores
I loathe the take of “well every writer is using AI and afraid to say it”. Like, that’s only true if your sample group is tech reporters and various hacks. Writers that don’t give a shit about writing, they just know they need a newsletter to make money, use AI. That’s a big fucking difference
dear god, hearing the way some people have just completely integrating AI shit into their everyday lives is so sad and embarrassing and alienating. you motherfuckers have me on the verge of believing in the existence of the human soul. awful
curious if any of the filmy types on here have reviews or pieces of criticism that are just like, your fucking favorite and if you could share
*standing up on the plane* okay i'm gonna read "america" by allen ginsberg. don't worry i'm not gonna do the n word part. okay. america i've given you all and now i'm nothing. america two dollars and twentyseven cents january 17, 1956. i can't stand my own mind. america when will we end the hu
*standing up on the plane and opening a beat-to-shit copy of Moby-Dick* you little bitches ready to learn about TYPES of WHALES
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last wk.*standing up on the plane* ok you Protestant fucks prepare to get scared because I’m about to tell you what’s real. Hail Holy Queen our light our sweetness and our hopes. To Thee to we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Tu
I only ever saw Glen Hansard play live once, when The Frames opened for the New Pornographers in Central Park in the summer of 2006. It was an unbearably humid day, and, when the weather finally broke halfway through their set, we all truly believed Hansard had called down the thunderstorm himself
this was the rehearsal show for the Carnegie Hall Sinead & Shane benefit. few musicians so generous with their spirit. youtu.be/QwwZXtf4oHI?...
A Man You Dont Meet Everyday - Glen Hansard (Pogues cover)
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the most online movie character from a movie made before the (popular, social) internet is unquestionably Otto from A Fish Called Wanda