Yeah her wiki bummed me out in some ways, too. But it was also, thankfully, hopeful. It seems that she was able to find peace after how awful she was treated in the 70s films she made. She also used that pain to help work toward improving how women are treated in film. So that's the silver lining. I also wonder how…

I have no doubt they're similar. Whether they were the exact same or not was my point.

I watched the scene after this article, but I'd never seen it before. I remember hearing about the movie some years ago (I was a big fan of Bertolucci's THE DREAMERS), and immediately saw the controversy when reading about LAST TANGO IN PARIS. Something in me just said… life is short, I'm good without seeing this…

Ah I gotcha. Yeah I do wonder now what actually happened. In the scene itself, as presented in the film (and in light of the filming as described by Schneider), it's sexual assault. But now with this admission, who the hell knows how far it went? Who knows if Schneider left out the very worst aspects?

I'll defer to actual rape victims on whether we should have distinctions between things or not. I highly doubt the psychology of each is the exact same; in any case, the actual behaviors are not. Forgive me for actually distinguishing things in the world.

Yeah it's not rape, but it is sexual assault.

Yeah the over-stating of what happened isn't necessary and does a disservice to what did happen: She wasn't actually raped, but she was sexually assaulted, I think that's clear. If she did not consent to what happened in those shots in that scene, then it is sexual assault, period.

Amen brutha, amen. ugawddamnrite

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…But…what if he does fuck all these bitches?

What's great is that it sounds like you get to listen to that song for the first time, every time.

Haha! Oh I really hope they played LOST KEYS/Rosetta Stoned for you.

Ahhh that does suck. I can understand that. There is a part of me that wishes I saw that DC concert sober, because I think the emotions their music elicited would have been more true or real, if that makes sense. If you're having a great trip, everything is amazing so it's kind of hard to know how true those emotions…

That is awesome. Kate Bush is like some wacky genius angel who was too good for heaven so now she's on earth singing. To see someone who is truly a genius (in the classic, meaningful sense of that term) utterly inhabit their Self is an inspiration. I envy you getting to see this live! I would love to have a DVD of it,…

Totally. The best concert I have ever seen was Tool in 2006, in Washington DC. I did mushrooms for the first time that night, and it turned into this bizarre, ultra-meaningful experience. If I had to choose another Tool song packed with personal meaning, it would be WINGS. The version of that track that they did at…

Fuck it, I'll be "that guy": Tool's THIRD EYE knocked me on my ass the first time I heard it. It prefigured every interest I would come to have regarding psychology and the brain in the following years of late adolescence. It reoriented my nerve endings to the possibilities of music, and that led to discovering all…

Too soon, dude. Andrew Sachs RIP!

Absolutely. 2016 took my Prince away, and now it's fucking with my FAWLTY TOWERS. Fuck 2016 hard.

"cooperative humility" - Oooh that's a sexy term right there! I like it.

Tried to think of something to add, but that's so well put. I come at the issue from the more basic research/neuro perspective, but I know enough about those methods and modalities to be fucking terrified of the reification fallacies inherent to biological markers of mental illness. I probably internalized Foucault's…

That's what I'm thinking, too. The lack of focus as a function of his mental status. His FANTASY and YEEZUS albums are ridiculously focused. I think you can see him healing himself by the last third of PABLO, though, as it becomes more focused. I know he was going for a gospel vibe, a kind of hunkering down in one's…