the mean streets pool hall fight scene is the platonic ideal for movie combat for me. I want guys with lazy punches flailing around for 10 minutes to replace all john wick hyper-choreographed fight scenes. give me five broken pool cues per movie!
this album has some of the shaggiest of shaggy dog qualities but i like how especially earnest neil sounds on it
This is probably my favorite genre of movie. Most Safdies, Bad Lieutenant 1 (and especially 2). The last act of a big Scorsese epic. the great Bill Duke's Deep Cover. a lot of manns!
what are other good examples of this
can't remember the details off the top of my head, but i think it came from one of macfarlane's film professors as what was intended to be a quick shutdown of some movie but macfarlane thought it was pretentious and didn't mean anything.
it's weird that it has been memed to the point where people accept it as valid critique. i know what a person means when they say it, but idk, use your words. it's ponderous, boring, etc not the peter griffin line
when i was young, reading pop sci slop could keep me engaged and leaning.
22-27 I read a lot of the classics. not all of them, i have a lot to learn. but i dont want to learn anything. im coming to think learning is a problem
i got an email late on friday about working in office m-thursday now. I didn't show up today, obviously, because I'm not checking email at 4pm on a friday. I don't understand why bosses care so much about this shit. I don't know how you can look at yourself in a mirror knowing a hundred people hate your guts now and there's no reason for it. I will be fine with coming in more. My office actually has a gym, maybe I finally get healthy. But what sort of person wills this? like it's insane. I just want to be left alone and these people are inviting hatred.
i've found that you literally cannot praise any aspect of bear's character as portrayed in the movie without someone jumping down your throat about how abusive and horrible it is. Even if it's just the seemingly uncontroversial idea to me at least that he is a good listener and Nikki and Sarah both liked talking to him. It's interesting because so many of the all-timer horror icons such as Jack Nicholson in The Shining are ultimately disgusting, but audiences generally understand him. We understand the humanity of the character and how bad he becomes because of the negative influence of circumstance. It seems like there is much more emphasis on symbolic disavowal now. We can't even admit we see ourselves in a character if we have ultimately decided he is a bad person.
I've been having an ant problem in my apartment. it's probably my fault. i am a now-sober alcoholic so when I was drinking I wasn't the worlds most hygienic guy. But I'm trying to fix that, and it is fascinating to watch them as they enter the trap from every direction. I could watch them from afar for hours. Maybe I need an ant farm.