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Wow, a Korean movie's number one! Now to see if this represents a broad breakthrough in middlebrow appetite for Asian cinema or if this is just Pitchfork during peak Kanye fever - ctrl-F's "Weerasethakul" - ctrl-F's "Jia" - ctrl-F's "Tsai" - ctrl-F's "Hou H" - ctrl-F's "Koreeda" - ctrl-F's "Hong S"

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<BART line to SF is blocked, need to take a 3-seat ride instead of a 1-seat> well it's probably just bad luck, no reason to think it won't be fine on the way back <on the way back: Transbay Tube goes down>

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For a very small number of people, by far the funniest thing about the Minecraft Movie is that Chuglass, the podunk small town the characters live in in the real world, is clearly Huntly

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Lots of "man, fuck that guy" as my column turns into a John Oliver episode. Yet there's also the neologism of the summer, Caribbean songs of last summer, celebrity encounters, barely disguised K-pop sapphism, PVC pipes, inspirational rhyming, and pure filth: bradluen.substack.com/p/video-and-...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

it's bad!

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A Touch of Sin cuts back on the music (for the worse imo) besides some Chinese opera. I know nothing about Chinese operas, but apparently Yu Tang Chun (which Zhao Tao's character sees a bit of at the end) is one of the famous ones: concubine is put on trial for murder of her lord; melodrama enuses.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Easily the hardest to do of the massive Brazilian playlists I've made. More details below, but here's a 10.5 hours of Brazilian musics from before 1960. open.spotify.com/playlist/2pw...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Favorite singles of 1990 re: recent discourses: - we are not immune to Childmania - "Enjoy the Silence" is a good song, would definitely make my top 100 (of the year, not of all time obvs.)

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

It was probably inevitable that we'd get a liberal-or-at-least-non-shithead-coded wrestling promotion competing with the MAGA-not-even-coded wrestling promotion, but it wasn't guaranteed we'd get the *good* one. Glad we did!

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24 City does the documentary thing of following an interview with music that connects to the interview. So a former factory worker nicknamed Little Flower for her resemblance to a 1979 movie character stands stoically while a movie clip and the theme 妹妹找哥泪花流 play. Hey, she does look like Joan Chen!

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