QuasarSniffer

@quasarsniffer.bsky.social

Social Justice Cleric. Listens to Black Metal, posts about Muppets.

I'm not saying I want every film to be like this, but I wish more movies today had to courage to be as achingly, almost mythologically ROMANTIC as 'Waterloo Bridge' (1940, dir. Mervyn LeRoy). I am weak in the knees... The 1931 version directed by James Whale is also excellent.

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Sure, TV from the 1960s through the 1980s was stuffed to the gills with terrible variety shows, but if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have all of these Dolly Parton clips to keep us company in perpetuity. What a blessing in retrospect!

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Grave and memorial brass of Ralph Hamsterley (died 1518), Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and Principal of St Alban Hall. Text reads "Here I am, given to the worms, and thus I try to show that as I am laid aside here so is all honour laid aside." (Credit to @skullsinchurches for text translation)

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There are moments in 'Stop Making Sense' (1984, dir. Jonathan Demme) where I just have to re-orient myself and realize I am witnessing a sort of artistic singularity. 88 minutes of setting my soul aflame.

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