chris

'girl who is going to be okay' meme but text has been changed to 'civil rights leader who is going to be okay'

have had water trapped in my left ear for several days and just finally got it out, this must be what Mandela felt like when they finally released him

dunno if it's a sign of how music rights in general have skyrocketed in the last 30 years or just of how his own reputation was revitalised in the decade before his death but my sense is a film of this scale made now can't afford a Bowie song for the end credits

it's weird that the only acting awards here went to Sigourney Weaver (a BAFTA, and the Santa Fe Critic's Circle Award, both for supporting actress), who's great as ever but doesn't seem like a particular stand-out among this cast

I can't imagine Ang Lee running anything other than a kind, considerate, safe set for these kids but man if he tried making this today there would be *discourse*

Tobey Maguire is only 21 here but he's playing a 16 year old and the other kids are literally kids (Christina Ricci actually 16, Elijah Wood 15, David Krumholtz 17) so he might as well be 35

This article is about the actor. For the murderer, see Elijah Wood (murderer).

who called it the Capitol insurrection and not The ICE Storm!1!! (I am watching The Ice Storm)

'AI used to suck shit, like Cormac McCarthy, but we fixed that' is one of the most self-revealing things I've ever heard one of these bozos say

Just saw a woman excitedly tell her friend “let me know how you like chatgpt!” in front of an inert delivery robot and I get how don draper could start listening to the Beatles and be like nope i choose death

Powell and Jean Arthur are, I think, the two golden age stars who most embody what I want from that era: delivering lines at a mile a minute, equally capable of talking shit and refusing to take it, looking like they're dressed to the nines even at their most rumpled, making it all look easy

running Mervyn LeRoy's High Pressure in the background to fill a short spell at home before I have to head out again and man, William Powell, the best

rfk standing very normally in a steak and shake

leland palmer in the black lodge

the Earl/MIKE joint tour hitting Glasgow on the same night as Geese at the Barras, maybe less overlap in crowds but still, come on

yooooooooo

I actually started second guessing myself, like 'no, they can't just be straight up posting Blood Meridian can they? won't people know immediately?' which, in retrospect, lol

I created Letterboxd to quarantine people's movie opinions

Glaswegian rather than Irish but once again thinking of my gran being told the Queen Mother had died and, without breaking stride across the room, replying 'about bloody time'

The return to the fold of guitarist Alain Whyte, who played with Morrissey from 1991 until 2004, however, seems to have lit an occasional spark. His presence helps steer the album away from the middling melodies and rather self-satisfied air that have plagued more recent records. Whyte’s songwriting credits include fan-favorites from happier days such as “Hold on to Your Friends” and “First of the Gang to Die.” There’s nothing quite of that standard on Make-Up Is a Lie, and little that will trouble the conscience of former fans who have been put off by the singer’s political pivot into “I do my own research” guy (and worse).

Pitchfork reviewing the new Morrissey album (and giving it a 6.1) already feels like a choice in and of itself and then you read it and this is the only reference to his extra-curricular activities - '(and worse)' doing a lot of heavy lifting! web.archive.org/web/20260310...

aye it's one of those things where if you only knew him from RHCP you'd be like... what? but all the counter-cultural folk from that generation seem to have a lot of time for him personally.

the new york times post captioned “here are the suggested serving sizes of common household supplies that surprised us the most” with a photo of a glob of white goo in the palm of a hand

gotta be another way to do this

I assumed you, of all people, must have already but I couldn't remember you posting anything about it!

we watched the first two episodes and never went back to it (although still might, at some point) but I've seen barely anyone else talk about it since the initial excitement of Criterion getting the rights

Blossoms Shanghai kind of came and went on Criterion without the kind of notice you'd expect 25 hours of new Wong Kar-wai to get huh

Four Favorites with Kim Gordon 🎸

Kim Gordon's third solo album Play Me is out this Friday. The tenth anniversary edition of her memoir Girl In A Band is out now.

same, we love a beautiful loser don't we folks

beautiful boys doing queer things in 90s streetwear and also Udo Kier is there, could not be more Biddles-coded

there's an extra on the Criterion edition of My Own Private Idaho where Van Sant and Todd Haynes give commentary over selected scenes and Van Sant talks about how of all the actors Flea was the one who would always *go* for it, just full of praise for him

Frusciante similar, testament to how you can have three incredibly talented musicians in their own right and none of that matters once they hitch their wagon to a guy who has always been a 65 year old's idea of a 20 year old

Flea seems like such a fascinating guy - showing up here, Lebowski, Back to the Future II/III, a thoughtful talking head in several music docs across genres, imminently releasing a jazz trumpet album (!) - that you almost wonder how his main gig ended up being four decades of Red Hot Chili Peppers