samuelblupowitz.bsky.social
Musician & songwriter for Pocket Bandits, Noon Fifteen, et al. Food enthusiast. Bad pun aficionado. He/him. Ithaca, NY, US.
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THANK YOU. I don’t fucking get it.
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“The fahckin’ road goes ever on and on! It’s fahckin’ RELENTLESS.”
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The Lady Vanishes is wonderful.
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1. Rear Window
2. North by Northwest
3. Vertigo
4. The Lady Vanishes
5. The Birds
Hon mention: High Anxiety 😉
I nudged out Psycho for The Birds and I’m surprised that it didn’t make anyone else’s top 5 either — but it’s so hard to argue with some of these others!
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…and I’m all out of bread 😎
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Oo-de-lally.
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Too many people desperately want to believe art happens in a vacuum. I imagine that’s some of the appeal of the AI-generated stuff (but of course, big surprise in store for anyone who thinks they can, as a professor once said, “get back to the garden” there)
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IT’S SO DENSE
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Weirdly just saw a thread about this elsewhere — I also stand by that the political beats and overall story arc are not at all the issue with the prequels. The writing and direction just sucks. You get an interesting story told poorly, which leads to a poor story.
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If only the current administration would disappear into the outer atmosphere in a frustrating, confusing, and tonally questionable deus ex machina.
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Ah yes, another arena where people’s myopic lack of compassion makes my blood boil
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I normally tune them out but today I got an “emigrate to Canada” ad and I felt THAT one.
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This would be the best news but a lot of Catholics would get on the forums to complain that the church isn’t as good as at the beginning of your reign and why is it so accepting of trans people now or some bullshit.
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What a wonderful smell you’ve discovered!
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I’m delighted by this response, but also now I’m thinking about The Plough and the Stars for the first time in years and I might need to lie down…
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That Eugene O’Neill, ugh, what disposable drivel, no timeless relevance to the human condition there. 🙄
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I think perhaps it is not helpful to argue about an election that is a done deal, and rather to form alliances and organize to fight the fascism that we are facing now.
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That’s been my stance.M for a few months now. I said to my therapist, “I bet they didn’t have any scenarios for this when you were getting your degree, huh?”
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Watching sequentially also reminded me just how much the show hits its stride in season 3 (after the head writer switch). I remembered the first two seasons being uneven, but some of the later seasons are all over the place too (season 6, oi). 3 starts strong and almost all 20-some eps are solid.
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So overall she’s not quite as awful as I remember, and she has some lovely moments in there, but the reasons to hate her are firmly established. And let’s face it: Crusher is the doctor on the Enterprise-D, just like Ringo is the drummer for the Beatles.
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Jumping in mid-season 2, I was surprised that I remembered hating her as much as I did — it depends on who’s writing her, and a couple of early episodes in the season lean into her anti-Data prejudice hard enough to sour me. That sort of comes back toward the end of the season.
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Watched this episode recently — my wife and I have been diving back into TNG for some comfort — and I remembered this exchange, but not that what prompted it was Pulaski relentlessly nagging Data to play an insufferable future-space-chess grand master and then being annoyed with the result 😂
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I’d argue that millennials generally became less conservative and more engaged with social movements as we aged, but to be fair I 1) am speaking purely from my anecdotal experience and no data and 2) I clearly have no clue what’s been going on for the past five years
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Thanks for sharing some good news with me today!
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I’m mixing my Internet nostalgia by imagining a MIDI version of Someone Else’s Cafe in the background of an Angelfire page.
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I’m amazed how many people don’t grasp that they don’t have to (and sometimes should not) voice every opinion they have. If the chef poisons you, that’s one thing; if you simply don’t like your meal, order something else next time, or dine elsewhere. Feedback isn’t always valuable or desired.
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“WE’RE MERGING!”
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SAUL
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Punch it, Chewie. I mean… literally punch it.
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Too many problems, and not enough horrifying marionettes to go around.
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Oh man, thanks for the reminder of how great that movie is.
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At this point, the best you can do is pick up your pieces.
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One is the things that I love about Severance is that unraveling the Mysteries is not the core of the show, the characters are. So if the goats don’t actually play into what’s going on with Mark, Gemma, Cobel, I don’t need to know to be satisfied. Same way I didn’t care what a Sith was before 1999.
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Every shot is so dense!
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Severance’s mystery is in service of, and secondary to, the characters’ journeys. Westworld’s first season had a similar structure, but season 2 felt like “how do we do an even puzzlier puzzle box” and insisted on hiding plot information from us for no real reason until it was exhausting.
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For me there’s a HUGE difference between how Severance is expanding its world while keeping the focus on character, and Westworld, which has become my go-to cautionary tale of a show that fails to understand what actually made its first season good and immediately crumbled in S2.
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Sometimes I get the sense Gillian Anderson already wanted to do this to David Duchovny.
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THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HEAH!