...and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes…

I watch movies mostly as travelogues, to feel afterwards as if I’ve been somewhere I haven’t otherwise been, and Rohmer delivers this so well! He obviously knows his spaces, the tiny book-filled Paris apartments, the big country houses, the city streets and the seaside. The stories in those settings - which is most of…

I love fish. All my life I’ve always had at least one aquarium in my place. I’m also a depraved sexual pervert. But there is a firm line between my two hobbies that will never be crossed.

No names, not illegal. Still pretty gross and completely unprofessional, though. If I found out my orthodontist was laughing about me — by name or not — behind my back, I’d be looking for other orthodontists ASAP and yelping the shit out of his practice.

They’re actors on a show that’s essentially pro wrestling for white women.

Kind of a bold choice to have the Shape of Water lady come up and fuck the fish live on stage. Although some people seem to really approve of the idea, judging from Donald Trump’s Twitter.

It’d be cool if ABC would run all the shorts on the Saturday before The Oscars

Exactly

PS: FilmStruck, which is on the Roku app, is $10.99/mo. - so that may be a bit pricey if you’re not routinely watching WB Archives and the Criterion Collection.

Pop culture has been terrible since invention of spoken language, you fucking sellout!

If you ask me, pop culture has been on a downward slide ever since we abandoned oral traditions revolving around creation myths in favor of narratives communicated via language represented through symbols and signs recorded to physical mediums like stone and parchment.

I mean, in his day, Shakespeare was regarded as a potboiler hack who made popular entertainment for the masses. Today, though, we use “Shakespearean” to describe narrative rife with drama, tragedy, and gravitas. I think part of it is that over time, these pieces of culture get further analyzed and understood, and new…

The best argument against popular culture is most of it. The best argument in favor is that tiny percentage that’s left.

This week I finished the last of Eric Rohmer’s contemporary stories. The Mayor, The Tree, and the Mediatheque was surprisingly political! It was about a phenomenon that is common everywhere: the relative ease with which one can raise funds for new building projects alongside the near impossibility of raising funds to…

I’d like to hear from Alex Garland’s former AD.

Quick! Do an episode where Rick really wants McDonald’s to pay it’s workers a living wage!

Don’t worry- the elections are a little over 8 months away. At the rate we’re going, there’s still time for another 15-20 massacres. If it weren’t for summer break, I’m sure there would be even more.

Watched this with girlfriends parents and her brother and his wife. All of them NRA, trumptards, except my GF. They kept yelling trumpublican and nra talking points every time a kid would speak. Was brutal. All were in agrreement....”If I had a gun I would’ve shot him in a second.” “Need more guns in school!”

I’m fortunate to have seen the Terracotta warriors both as part of this special traveling exhibit and in China on the grounds where they were buried.

In China, you are always at a significant distance from the figures and related artifacts, unless they’re behind glass. The traveling exhibit in the US allows everyone to…