The Voidoids set is predictably a scorcher, lots of great Quine/Julian wrestling but there is a moment during "All The Way" where someone in crowd screams Beatlemania (you can hear her fingers squeezing her face)-style that is just magical
Tyler Wilcox@tylerwilcox.bsky.social · yesterdayIt doesn't get much better than this — a thrilling CBGB double bill in the summer of ‘78: Richard Hell & the Voidoids and the Feelies. Listen in.
More like National Night IN amirite? This guy gets it...
This guy has left the Democratic party more times then he has won elections
Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 3d ago"I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker ... if he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I am out of here," James Carville says on Fox this morning. Reminder: The Left Insurgency airs tonight on CNN at 8p ET.
Shouts to my neighborhood theater, I saw the 70mm print of Lawrence of Arabia last month and it completely blew my mind (they don't serve Coke though)
At the Heights Theater, a projectionist takes his own odyssey
With “The Odyssey” driving interest in movie theater formats, are old-school film screenings set for a revival?
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My War obviously
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
Jim Jarmusch's OLDEST LIVING THING IN LA starring Tom Waits and an opossum...hold up this is a great fucking idea
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Person on IG who relentlessly posts selfies & location updates is worried about surveillance becoming a trend...well, uh...yeah
The film has absolutely spiked interest in HER translation, which is one of COUNTLESS. It's not an accident that Emily Wilson's translation and (in my experience, though I bet the numbers would bear this out) no one else's is the one people are looking for. I would argue Nolan should thank Wilson.
An absolute all-time, first round ballot hall of fame #PynchonName
Productive Outs@productiveouts.bsky.social · 2w agoSOURCE: The San Diego Padres have signed third-round pick, collegiate catcher Wrangler Husband, to an $1.08 million deal. Slot value was $808.1k.
There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.
Sometimes you just have to stop and marvel at the absolute miracle that is this song
Pere Ubu - Chinese Radiation
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Been having a hard time processing this, if you can support Eugene, he is really, truly the man
Donate to Let's help Eugene get his voice back!!!, organized by Kasia Robinson
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They are going to try what they try. But they are not smart people, nor are they coordinated, and a real plan would be five years in the making. Remember what you're dealing with.
Nevermind guys I got a rejection letter 6 months later...the system works!
Xopher Besinger@xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo this is just how it is now huh?
There is no middle ground. Arrest. Prosecute. Punish. #fuckICE
NowThis Impact@nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 4w agoWatch Ronaldo Salgado’s heart-wrenching statement after his father, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston, Texas on July 7.
I wrote this at the beginning of June and have been thinking about it again this week
I truly fucked up not doing my due diligence on Platner before offering high praise for his communication skills. Enough was out there at the time that I should have been more cautious. Especially because I met adventurer dudes like him reporting in Iraq. Deep respect to all who got it right. 1/2
Count me in the camp that was very 'meh' on Nolan's The Odyssey until this morning when I realized Samantha Morton is playing Circe and now I am much more intrigued
Julian Lage & Joel Paterson together with Bob Dylan tonight
Just rewatched Mulholland Drive and this tweet was in my head
Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social · 11mo agoRealized last night that the cute lil’ guy in McCabe & Mrs. Miller who adorably asks his buddy if he should shave his beard to just a mustache is the SAME ACTOR WHO 30 YRS LATER plays the weird director in Mulholland Drive who tells Naomi Watts “Don’t play it for real until it gets REAL.”
“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
I used to share this every 4th of July not becuz I ever feel patriotic but cuz this only vers of this terrible song that captures the greatness & awfulness of this country...this yr I feel worse abt this place then I ever have before I've been trying to find the hope but its hard #fuckice
Bill Orcutt -- The Star Spangled Banner
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