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Cruel Angel’s Arsis
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The 1923 version of the Ten Commandments is a hoot, if you like silent movies. (And really nothing like the later version.)
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All of the songs have titles like “1. Scattered.” “2. Smothered and covered.” etc.
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Oh, interesting. I need to reread it, then! That aspect went over kid-me’s head completely.
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[“Law and Order” appears on the screen]
Me, nodding sagely: “Aha! The Lady or the Tiger.”
[the subtitle appears, “Criminal Intent”]
Me: “Ack! Crap! Tiger, Tiger, Tiger! Fuck!”
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What’s interesting is that - although I *have* heard that title used that way! - that’s not how the story works at all. The lady isn’t a shitty outcome!
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Yeah - there are a lot of famous short stories, but relatively few where you can say “that’s a real [title of the story] situation”
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Ficta
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those colors!
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So is the idea that Bruckner (or rather, the appropriated Bruckner) is the reactionary mirror image of modernism, then?
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With respect, it absolutely does not speak for itself, and all of you know it.
“People always ask me what my movies mean” yeah because your movies are seductively bewildering, do you think Adam Sandler is fielding similar questions?
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Untitled Goose Game is a bit like this, actually — with a capture-the-flag loop that forces you to keep making incursions into the territory controlled by the lumbering unkillable colossi.
It’s more about getting in than about getting out, mostly, but there’s some good skedaddlin’ to be had.
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Staten Island is also a borough, though, and “he lives in Staten Island” sounds fully deranged.
(Then again, island is right there in the name.)
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What’s weird is that Wagner liked Siegfried so much.
Like granted, Wagner is not known for having good opinions. But even so.
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… learning a lot about Roald Dahl *will* make you feel like less of a freak, though. Comparatively.
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you got this
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I feel like this is a generalizable law of the internet, actually. If someone says “I hate it when people do [X],” at least one person will pop up to say “Me too! That’s why, instead, I do [clearly also X].”
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And his rational, skeptical counterparts say “No, that’s silly. A character from mythology? No, this is just a series of unrelated murders, in which the victims were, uh, turned to stone. Presumably by, like, the mafia or something?”
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Let me say this again: the AI my W. Indian student used to correct her syntax (Claude I think) also removed every mention of Franz Fanon from her work! I suspect this is because an engineer somewhere decided Fanon's ideas are controversial? WTF!
Paging @ruha9.bsky.social & @alondra.bsky.social!!
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No-nonsense professional travels to an idyllic small town where people take their folk traditions weirdly seriously; after learning the true meaning of the holiday, he never does go back to the city.
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(Not “real money” as in “a serious amount of money,” but “real money” in the sense of “an actual physical $5 bill.”)
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I wonder if they’re doing audience segmentation like a 419 scam, except that rather than selecting for gullibility, they’re picking low self-esteem
Like if the ad says “this product is for LOSERS!” it’s because they are looking for customers who will say “[sigh…] well, I don’t deserve any better.”
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Henny Youngman: “Take my wife… seriously!”
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are you sure that you didn’t accidentally put on They Live glasses and watch literally any ad for a truck?
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hell yeah
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He loves that one shot of the moon, for sure.
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Compare the forges of Nibelheim to the hotdog sequence in Koyaanisqatsi.
Wagner: “Haha, yeah! Sick! This is so twisted!”
Reggio: [folds arms sadly] “Sick. This is so twisted.”
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This is a really compelling comparison — but I do feel like Wagner has this kind of giddy enthusiasm for everything that he’s doing, which is mostly absent in Reggio? Like, he hates modernity — but he does think it would look cool airbrushed on the side of a van?
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It turns out that Conclave was his sled.
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Wotan is a very recognizable type of parent in this regard — “I just want my children to have *opportunities* (to live their lives precisely in this way)”
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“Hey now”
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My “I didn’t murder anyone” chapter heading has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the chapter heading
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do not, for God’s sake, ask me why I tried this
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“Jennifer logic on a Heather budget” is tremendous
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Mklum!
Dklad!
Bingklo!
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I tried this with frozen cherries a few years ago and I never went back to ice
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… and then lift your hips alll the way back to downward-facing dog