Hesperides

My cats in Mewgenics lying to themselves

Nine Inch Nails is like an hour late, but the preshow mix just had Goodbye Horses and that might have been the highlight of my week

Weirdest part of "Wuthering Heights" was that I could understand Joseph. Why did Emerald not decide to just make him an unintelligible cartoon character like in the book?

Bronte: Prejudice and shared trauma can bond victims in toxic codependency and lead to cycles of abuse

Emerald Fennel: If you are a bitch to Hong Chau, she's going to ruin your life

Testament of Ann Lee ends with Lorde in an Eyepatch asking Ann to join the "Prettier Jesus" initiative. Benedetta is their Hulk

Workshopping an impression of David Lynch as an Avatar

Do the Na'Vi have cigarettes, coffee, and Naomi Watts?

Varang and Quaritch's relationship is a cute little microcosm of how the New Atheists drifted into the far right

You take some aesthetics and id driven atheism and give it a taste of power by aligning with fascism and capital and there you go - the hot goth cat woman is now killing the whales

Did Eywa create the Sigourney Weaver clone so that she could kiss Spider. She has the Pink Skin fever. Eywa sees you, Monkeyboy

So, the part of Avatar 3 that is about the relationship between grief, trauma, and faith is really interesting. The hot goth Navi being a mirror to Zoe Saldana works. But then it gives up on that and is about who gets to Spider's daddy for the day.

Committing a crime so I can get 30 minutes with AI Judge bot Rebecca Ferguson

A bit late for #fcf oh well. Woops

After reading 2 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl books, I am gonna say I do not believe he shares Hugo's concern/interest in architecture as a way to communicate cultural history and values.

Perhaps Hugo would have grown to love Gossip Girl, though

I am so bad at reading. Tell me why I am like a page into Dungeon Crawler Carl and wondering how much Victor Hugo Matt Dinniman has read. Not in a snobby way - legit interest in his influences, based on the Venerable Bede quote

Between the PS2 Bambi ad, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, and Twink Peaks season 3 - I really do love how much David Lynch seems to be in awe of and fearful of cars

Basically everyone behind the wheel of a car except for Laura Dern is a psycho

Neil Breen Acres

So I am definitely fighting through my expectations on Everybody Scream (folk horror, ancient witchery vibes) and accepting what it is.

But why does she keep singing about her phone? Is she signaling bisexuality? Eat hot chip, charge they phone, cast hex, and lie?

Within 10 minutes of Lost Highway you can tell there is something deeply wrong with Bill Pullman. And it is because he didn't listen to Patricia Arquette when she said to wake her up and fuck her when he got home.

This man is a deranged lunatic that deserves whatever comes to him

Zohran at Mood Ring in Brooklyn

Ear Jobs for Early Voters

I was The Crow for Halloween and somebody was trying to hit on me at the club by saying they liked my style. I squirmed away because like... this is a costume (of clothes fully sourced from my closet, yes), but im NOT always The Crow, baby

Early voters for Zohran are cute as fuck. Love seeing lines today

Watching The Crow (94) for the first time and oh boy am I having tortured feelings. I hate rape revenge stories. I hate the objectification of Asian women.

But fuck the music is great and Brandon Lee is hot, charming, and fun!

More movies need a goth vs poseurs core conflict

Am I just not excited by Florence anymore? It hurts to even think about. In retrospect i am so grateful to Dance Fever for having hooks, even when it tread upon usual thematic territory.

I can replay King and Free and Dream Girl Evil in my head.

Unsure if these tracks will stick

Oscar Isaac is drinking a glass of milk in every scene of Frankenstein and it is gross

Woke South Africans be like DEI Antwoord

It's funny when bands ruin Head Like a Hole by stripping all of the quirky, fun production out of it and lean into being hard-core and edgy. No, stupid.

Devo understood this and chose to make it more dorky and insane, and is much cooler than, for instance, Carnifex

If you CAN Believe it! It's Friday. Again!

Screenshot of "Sonic Jihad" by Snake River Conspiracy

When Eggman won't stop making machines in the likeness of a human mind

Information just being given to the audience is not a twist. Is every time something surprising happens a "twist?" It makes me almost irrationally angry

I'm "concerned" that somebody described the dog in The Thing (1982) being The Thing as a twist? Rather than just something that happens.

I feel like a twist is more like a fundamental shift in information AFTER a status quo has been developed. The dog happens in the first 15 minutes