A couple of almost too good opening lines: "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." "La bêtise n'est pas mon fort."
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"Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings."
While we're on the topic of great British comedy:
Jaime Christley [Critters] ah-cha-cha@rohmersimpson.bsky.social · yesterday"kind of a soupy bloke"
David Collard@davidcollard.bsky.social · yesterdayMany people outside the UK have been asking me who Rod Liddle was. Here's Stewart Lee (from 08:53 onwards) on the man described by Fraser Nelson (former editor of The Spectator) as 'the greatest satirist since Swift.' Let this be the last word on the subject. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFt3...
"No, they do not beg; they have the dignity of the wretched who die of wages..." André Suarès, Le Voyage du Condottière
if The Punisher ever tried to tangle with the Apaches, they'd make a charcuterie board out of him. but Bout-de-Zan..... he would have the last laugh. when he got through with them they'd have made him their leader
Nicolas Leblanc@ngrl.bsky.social · 4d agoMarvel could never!
Somewhere William Gass (b. 30 July 1924) says “and” is a “sunderer”: any conjunct a wedge keeping distinct the objects it attempts to join. William Gass, painted (with no ands, ifs, or buts) by Philip Guston:
Errol Morris, back when he had a surer hand, made a nice short doc about all the shrinks fighting over the Unabomber just to gain his favor and scoop the others. That is all I need on this topic.
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · last wk.First look at Jacob Tremblay as the Unabomber in ‘UNABOMBER’. The film follows Ted Kaczynski's transformation into the domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber. Releasing September 25 on Netflix.
This October, from the producers of The Conjuring: every single one from the orders of angels will hear you scream.
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Since book recs are all the rage on the timeline, and rather than yammering on about books that are already known quantities, I am going to take this opportunity to highlight two or three authors I don't hear too much about around me:
Happy birthday to composer Roger Reynolds, long may he write music, and read poetry. youtu.be/x42Vs5bEkL0
WISDOM's Sources: I. Dedicated to the Thirukkural (Fronsdal Translation)
YouTube video by Irvine Arditti - Topic
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Describe yourself in three characters
Caustic Cover Critic@causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 3w agoDescribe yourself in three characters
Bookwise, the rest of the year includes for me: Roberto Bolaño, Susan Daitch, Thomas Pynchon, Arno Schmidt, Wallace Stegner, André Suarès...
The protagonists of Barbara Pym novels tend to be downwardly mobile gentlewomen whose respectable middle-class backgrounds and expensive educations haven't saved them from having to scrounge for a living in marginal academic or editing jobs beneath their station-- #nyrbwomen26
Pierre Léon : « Dans chaque film, j’essaie quelque chose que je n’ai encore jamais fait » - Critikat www.critikat.com/panorama/ent...
The Cantos of Ezra Pound Les Fleurs bleues (Raymond Queneau)
Verso Books@versobooks.bsky.social · 4w agoWhat are you reading this weekend?
The USA, the country of The Confidence-Man, Tom Sawyer, Elmer Gantry, The Grifters, of countless pulp iterations of same; the country whose first chess grandmaster was known as the Swindler, is full of marks.
Talk about a hangout movie here's a limited hangout movie. MADE BY THE CIA!!* *Don't mind me, just making shit up
Nicolas Leblanc@ngrl.bsky.social · last mo.45 minutes in the Linklater NOUVELLE VAGUE, I give up. I don't go to wax museums, they creep me the fuck out.
An island-wide blackout hit Cuba as fuel reserves dwindle and its electric grid continues to crumble.
Island-wide blackout hits Cuba as its fuel reserve dwindles
An island-wide blackout has hit Cuba as fuel reserves dwindle and its electric grid continues to crumble.
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Garry Marshall's The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
Zach Campbell@zachcampbell.bsky.social · 4w agoAleksandr Sokurov's The Real Cancun
45 minutes in the Linklater NOUVELLE VAGUE, I give up. I don't go to wax museums, they creep me the fuck out.
For all the clichés about American naïveté: like the protagonist at the end of Mr. Sammler's Planet, like Todd Solondz's characters, like Herman Melville growing steadily apart from his times, they know, and know they are doing it to themselves. It's this lacerating lucidity that I like best.
Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · last mo.Since it’s our 250th anniversary and I’ll probably never ask this again: What’s your #1 favorite thing about the United States?
I have been thinking about this a lot these past few years. The update will happen, I'm sure: rows of hoary heads in 2060 will be sundowning to the strains of Forever Young.
Maddie (delicious, nutritious)@pbastronaut.bsky.social · last mo.Just saw a video of someone singing Vera Lynn to old people in a home despite most of them being too young to remember the war, and it's unlocked a new terror in me of being elderly and them making my teenager-in-the-00s ass listen to WW2 music because "that's what old people like".