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Otis Wheeler

@owheeler.bsky.social

Here to write things that don’t matter in a place no one looks. Poptimism, vulgar auteurism and sabermetrics are the same.

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Otis Wheeler@owheeler.bsky.social · 2w ago

Contra the discourse, I've been listening to Choosin' Texas for 11 months, I've heard it at karaoke, county fairs & in covers or remixes by Waxahatchee & Drake. It's a terrific song co-written by maybe our greatest working country songwriter, the performance is spotless, and I'm still not sick of it

Otis Wheeler@owheeler.bsky.social · 5mo ago

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: what do the European square, newsprint comics, & theater framed by the proscenium arch have in common with academy ratio? Harmony between a subject & its context gives it life, minimizing entropy by creating a closed…

Ned Raggett@nedraggett.bsky.social · 5mo ago

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: in strict terms, one has to wonder exactly what the infrastructure supporting the people of Númenor's attendance of the Ruxotompalë or the Great Bear-dance as it was more commonly known was, but if you'll allow me...

Otis Wheeler@owheeler.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Something no one mentions when they're reminiscing about video stores is the type of guy who would insist that Iike Ned Kelly was the greatest movie ever made, and he'd just rent Ned Kelly every other month. I wonder what that guy's up to

Willow Catelyn Maclay@willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Matrix Resurrections was never going to pop off bc the entire thing is deconstructing the legacy of what it means for queer and trans pepople vs what it means for everyone else, but it deserved a better chance than it got. It was doomed bc it came out the same day as the Omicron strain of Covid!

Otis Wheeler@owheeler.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Someone told me they don’t like jazz bc it’s not emotional enough. That’s like saying you don’t like furniture bc it’s not emotional enough, you don’t like Montreal, cafes, wool sweaters, porcupines or the letters X, Y & Z bc they’re not emotional enough.

Derf Backderf@derfbackderf.bsky.social · 11mo ago

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.

Norman Rockwell painting, depicting little Roby Bridges being escorted into a school by Feds. Racial slurs are pained on the wall behind here. A thrown tomato lies on the ground.
Otis Wheeler@owheeler.bsky.social · 11mo ago

My mom watched S01 as it aired but I was 9 & only caught snippets. As soon as I could drive, I rented the whole series on VHS from a video store 30 minutes away, and rewatched parts of it when it came out on DVD. Notoriously, the pilot wasn’t included in either release, so I didn’t see it until 2014

David Lynch's Worlds@davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I was lucky enough to watch #TwinPeaks in the order it came out but for many, the first two seasons were hard to come by so #FireWalkWithMe was their introduction. Not until the show hit Netflix and released on DVD did it take off again. How did you first find "Twin Peaks"?

Otis Wheeler@owheeler.bsky.social · 11mo ago

PTU: rich, funny, theatrical, mannerist. The first Johnnie To movie I didn’t just admire but loved, with arguably the defining role for Lam Suet, the greatest supporting actor since Walter Brennan. Endlessly rewatchable.

Otis Wheeler@owheeler.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The most confusing things to me about dating are when they've never heard of cross-contamination, and when they don't believe clicking on a trackpad with your thumb is a thing. Plus everything else