Found the final scene to be less "agency," more cheap gag Von Trier tossed in to backpedal from the sincerity of Seligman's final monologue. Definitely more into the first one, though we should stop calling these movies unsexy and de-eroticized after that last scene with the phonebooks…

"All the hardcore bands? Rude, privileged, white men. They're all human waste," said the sole woman fronting a band of white, privileged (I mean look at that fur collar~~~!) men that, with one less pink hat, could easily be a hardcore outfit.

Shit. Went head-over-heels for Daisies.

This and Angel Olsen are about tied for me; Loveless might even be pulling ahead, if it weren't for Olsen's "White Fire." The vocals on this album are superb, and there's none of the take-it-or-leave-it Congleton knob-fiddling.

I was gonna say this……..but I'm glad you did!

swear I heard some Sleep in there when Hart gets tossed out

The only show on TV to rock "Holy Mountain" and "Clan in Da Front" within minutes of each other

There's a hell of an elevator fight in Korean gangster epic New World…and for all that film's debts to The Godfather, etc. a kickass elevator fight is a leg up!

Making my way through a bunch of stuff right now…Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain, and The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carre. Guess I like variety.

I'm reading the Atkinson now! You've got me excited to get back in.

love when i can sense a IV joint about to grace us

Yeah…and the usual argument about the "fly cliches" (thx Ghostface) is that they're stuff rappers have pulled from rich white culture. SO Lorde, a white girl, is rejecting hip-hop culture, predominantly black, by mocking the common signifiers of wealth flaunted by rappers - which are rooted in white people???

I was hoping for some Woody in that scene

I can see that - but with the color sapped out like an old photo.

Does anyone know exactly how much influence Warhol had over these films? Because I always see people leading with his name but he neither directed nor wrote them, and usually we don't give so much credit to the producer. Is it just cause he's a recognizable name versus Paul Morrissey?

oh mannnn if THIS episode is a C+

This is hilarious…Savages are like a freshman poetry class distilled into pure hard self-seriousness

"Thank you, boys. We almost had a moment there."

Lovecraft's science fiction WASN'T fiction!

Yeah…and to put Lords of Salem as some kind of ideal corrective is a head-spinner. Zombie is completely unable to conjure the kind of simmering tension that's necessary for a good Carpenter/Argento-style slow burn, and so he resorts to a long, chintzy montage of black metal album covers and bad Photoshop imagery that…