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@thomaslstrickland.bsky.social

aspiring cineaste, bitter southerner, non-native new yorker // experience designer/strategist & product designer/manager & user researcher also, abolish 🧊, thank you.

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Thomas@thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · yesterday

Just as @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social assured me weeks ago, there’s nothing Nolan’s film could do to harm The Odyssey, it’s been an adventure tale for 3,000 years. By the same token, @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social can’t put the hurt on Nolan’s The Odyssey… Even if she is entirely spot on here.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · yesterday

I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.

Thomas@thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 2d ago

Over the course of just under two hours, Andrew Scott believably portrays all eight characters from Uncle Vanya with a change of voice or the way he holds his face or just by having entire conversations with himself only it isn’t just himself because they’re all on stage together somehow.📽️

A ★★★★ review of National Theatre Live: Vanya (2024)

It takes a certain something, maybe it’s hubris, maybe it’s an inflated ego, maybe it’s being a gifted kid, to decide that the thing to do is a one-person show. Any one-person show is already asking a...

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Thomas@thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’ve started listening to The Power Broker while cleaning the bathroom. Turns a rather mundane chore into an opportunity to see just what civil shenanigans that rascally Bob Moses does this week.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 4d ago

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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Thomas@thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have two real answers to this, but just to have an excuse to do a bunch of otherwise pointless research, I’d be thrilled to take on Frank Sinatra’s Watertown (1969).

The cover to Frank Sinatra’s 1969 concept album Watertown.
Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d ago

You 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

Thomas@thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 5d ago

Sherman’s March (1985) documents Ross McElwee’s own unique experience finding his way through and out of the peculiar temporal architecture that makes up the Southern US. It’s the geography, the green of it all. The way every one-gas-station town looks exactly the same after dark.📽️

A ★★★★½ review of Sherman's March (1985)

For I have known them all already. Kilted contestants at the Highland Games, caber tossing telephone poles. Fearless swimmers in ponds and lakes opaquely green with algae. Matchmaking mothers of all k...

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Helena Fitzgerald@hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d ago

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

Thomas@thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 6d ago

It’s becoming a Thing™️ for me. The horror on-screen is nothing compared to the sound of someone eating. Hardest scene to stomach in The Substance had nothing to do with Elisabeth or Sue (or Monstro Elisasue), but was Dennis Quaid housing fistfuls of shrimp.

Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com · 7d ago

"It sounds like leftovers being thrown in the toilet, the slop and slush echoing across porcelain. It sounds like Joey Chestnut mid-competition. It sounds like what I imagine Steve-O heard when he was spiraling through the air in a Porta Potty." www.weareravenous.com/odyssey-circ...

Helena Fitzgerald@hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d ago

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 ago

You 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

Helena Fitzgerald@hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · last wk.

*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

Helena Fitzgerald@hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · last wk.

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

Thomas@thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · last wk.

*standing up on the plane* Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: —𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒊𝒃𝒐 𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒊

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

Thomas@thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · last wk.

DEPRESSED? A tried and true solution would be to get your hands and eyes on @mattielubchansky.com’s SIMPLICITY, celebrating its 1st birthday today!

Just a sample of the amazing art to be found in Mattie Lubchansky’s SIMPLICITY (2025). The protagonist (glasses, messenger bag) on a sidewalk, confronted by a giant red screen with a face asking “DEPRESSED?” with steps down to a subway to the right and a goggled guy in the foreground poking at a holographic moon thing.
mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · last wk.

SIMPLICITY has been out for ONE YEAR today!!!! happy birthday to my little book :) we don't get paperbacks very often in the graphic novel world so it's tough to keep attention on something when it's no longer new, but i still think it's the best thing i've ever made. simplicitybook.xyz

luicus, the horrible little man from the book, looks at his phone instead of attending the nightly orgy-fight. idiot.