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God, yeah, obviously the director of The King of Comedy, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Age of Innocence, Kundun and A Personal Journey Through American Movies is completely incapable of subtlety. I'm so glad he has a sanctimonious contrarian whose screen name is "You Might Be Wrong" to teach him about respecting

Also that the 'facts' the film contained were based entirely off interviews with the torturers, and the agency that sanctioned the torture. Scorsese, DiCaprio and the producers have distanced themselves from Belfont and his cronies in interviews, and judging by the outraged reactions from some of the people the movie

It's the freeze-frame at the end that makes it.

I always used to wonder how you would explain lolcats to somebody without sounding completely insane, but doge could be even harder.

I think the charm of the Doge meme is that, if dogs could talk, you can easily imagine Shibas would actually talk in little fragments of ungrammatical, gushing enthusiasm. I always imagine it being read out quite slowly, in a deep, breathy voice, like a New Age relaxation tape that hasn't had its script proofread

She's probably already there, looking for her next boyfriend.

I had a friend who wanted to go to a movie with her parents one Christmas. She mistakenly left it up to her mum to choose what they would see, and her mum chose Shortbus by John Cameron Mitchell. My friend and her dad sat there horrified for the whole movie, but her mum seemed to enjoy it. At the end she turned

We need more deets about him being a dick to his girlfriend! Jezebel commenters cannot live by Beyonce discussions alone.

The world wasn't ready for you. Don't worry, I'm going to take your suggestion to a new, wider audience! Just sign here, please.

I mean, that wasn't what I was saying, but now you've put it out there, it's what I'm going to be saying.

It's definitely worth it! The bits about Donna from Elastica's heroin habit are absolutely bloodcurdling - ending up in crack dens with your record advance in your pocket and things like that. That just wouldn't happen now, they probably employ interns for that sort of thing.

Truly, it was the golden age of upper-middle-class Camdenite junkies.

Have you read The Last Party by John Harris? It's a great work of pop music social history, but more importantly if you lived in Britain through the 90s the "Oh, so that's what was going on" factor is sky-high.

This is particularly funny when you've just finished reading Bad Vibes by Luke Haines, in which the author talks about wanting to record indie rock music because it seemed to be part of a genuine countercultural scene that existed outside the stupidity and vapidity of the mainstream industry, and then making it just

"I'm going to keep on having children for no reason other than spite and bloodymindedness, while complaining about how immigrants breed like rabbits!"

I think he has naturally blond hair, basically like the colour in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but curlier. I first saw it when he was presenting a BBC documentary about Terence Rattigan and I was startled - the dark hair looks so natural on him.

I do wonder if he ever got out of fights in the playground by telling people his mum is the Fendahl Core.

Yes, I agree this is a quandary. I don't want Turing ghettoised as "gay genius Alan Turing" - he should be a hero to all of us. But at the same time a lot of gay people in history have had their sexualities airbrushed away, and it only makes homophobia easier to perpetuate when people can pretend LGBTQ people have

Pictured: George Condo's troll face.