I don't think there CAN be a radical-left version of Donald Trump, because flinging shit up the power chain is a lot different than dropping it down. You know? I think smart people can hold different views about things, but more often than not, that's a bullshit excuse to hold a dumb opinion (see: Lena Dunham saying…

For sure, and for me personally, one of the most difficult things to reconcile myself (though it seems more generally applicable) with with regard to mental health is futurity, the idea that it's forever, a thing you're stuck with. It's the sort of thing that in one type of person makes it easier to ride out bad…

I like to call myself an SJW ironically because the things I say will tend to get that thrown at me by people who don't want to mount an argument, so it's more of a strategy than a true identity. THAT SAID, I don't think it's fair to hold leftists to a higher standard of politeness when serious emotional issues and…

Hello, this is your local SJW here to tell you that your argument is bad and you should feel bad.

"inspiration driving truth sometimes|this can be} when in doubt routinely the key financialy fulfilling i even have ever done"

Yeah, I think your totally on there. One of the things, I think, that people gloss over when talking about Wallace and mental health is that he was on *intense* antidepressants. I believe D.T. Max called it a "workhorse." He went off and when he went back on, they weren't working, and a couple of months later he…

BoJack Horseman has become pretty important to me right now, and this is exactly why. "Escape From LA" nails the feeling that depression gives you that if your situation were just different, if you were somewhere else or made different choices, you would feel better. But it doesn't work like that. It's not that easy.

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*clicks through every track trying to find relevant break*

Were this made by anyone other than Alex Ross Perry, I might agree, because a synopsis of "Listen Up, Philip" makes it sound like the most insufferable indie cliche around, but dude knows how to finesse structure. He's one of those directors who can unpack the long- and short-term emotional ramifications of what read…

So excited for this because, among other, stronger reasons (read: Perry, Moss), Keegan DeWitt's score MADE "Cold Weather", one of my favorite scores

Yeah, I sort of wonder how books can fit into this, because it seems like fourth-wall-breaking has a troubled relationship with narration versus a meta-textual or reflexive use thereof. Like, does Humbert Humbert break the fourth wall?

It's not a very good movie but I always found the first shot of "The Vicious Kind" excruciatingly intimate.

My favorite is probably "Womyn" and "Womyn 2" by Heems on Nehru Jackets. Totally different songs, totally different ideas about gender relations. Both great.

The two of these together defined my first year at school. Totally incessant listening. Probably the only deluxe edition I've ever thought essential for fans.

Yeah, I think at this point Criterion's biggest purpose (which is still v important) is restoration & access. The physical copies they sell seem superfluous or like a class marker. It's not like they were ever full of amazing critical work, just thorough history (again, not nothing, but usually accessible elsewhere).

For real, after I discovered EVERY 2.35 MOVIE WAS CROPPED I just started torrenting Last Week Tonight and let my friend keep her account to herself. Hulu is a champ.

The cinematography was the only good thing about "Beyond the Black Rainbow" but it was good enough that I'll probably at least skip around this movie to see what's what. BTBR had, if not strictly "innovative" lighting, such unbelievably bold setups (and remarkably sensitive to texture, soft and grainy) that I…

Oh! I guess I was going by "good examples" more than "relevant treatments" but I see what you meant. fwiw I'll take good + bad over nothing.

Yeah but BLAST FROM THE PAST wasn't good.