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The Six Seasons of Twin Peaks – Robert J. Peterson
Twin Peaks The Return brings out the best in a lot of writers and this attempt to fit the three seasons of Twin Peaks into a six-season format is one of them. At first it reads like a goofy fan-twiddling idea, but in the end, it's a deft exploration of what makes the Lynch/Frost masterwork so endlessly compelling
via: robertjpeterson.com
April 4, 2024 4:02 am
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J.G. Ballard
I miss these kind of websites, a hoarders treasure-trove dedicated to one particular artist. In this case, it's the author J.G. Ballard. The internet has ruined the internet (itself a Ballardian idea, I should think.)
via: jgballard.ca
April 2, 2024 4:10 am
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‘He was always voraciously watching’: Scorsese’s secret life as an obsessive VHS archivist
Scorsese was always taping old movies off of TV, and now the collection has been donated. Very curious to know what gems are there.
via: theguardian.com
March 25, 2024 4:40 pm
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Cop Cities, USA
A map of the current rise in "cop cities", gigantic training centers gearing up for more authoritarian business.
via: isyourlifebetter.net
March 10, 2024 6:11 pm
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The Fundie Baby Voice
As soon as Senator Katie Britt started speaking, I knew exactly who she is. She is so many of the pastor's wives and Sunday School teachers I knew growing up in an Evangelical church. Be sweet. Obey.
via: jesspiper.substack.com
March 8, 2024 5:20 pm
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Viewing the Ob-scene: On Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest”
Excellent essay by David Hering
via: lareviewofbooks.org
March 6, 2024 4:54 am
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Seattle School of Rock play Stop Making Sense
The entire concert (including bonus tracks) played by an army of young'uns
via: youtube.com
February 29, 2024 12:45 am
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You Don't Understand How Bad It Is Here - Jasper Diamond Nathaniel
In just a few days in the West Bank, Nathaniel sees atrocity after atrocity, war crime after war crime, and it breaks his brain
via: infinitejaz.substack.com
February 22, 2024 8:20 pm
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Empty Laughter - Ed Zitron
There is a fragility in this movement — a desperation, entitlement, and resentment toward those who are able to do things that others wish they could. It is tough to accept what we cannot do, and tougher still when we see someone who has soared so much higher than we ever thought possible. Sometimes it’s a case of accepting we haven’t made it yet — and in others it’s accepting that we’re never going to.
via: wheresyoured.at
February 21, 2024 3:55 am
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Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide • Protean Magazine
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi's beautiful essay about the role of the writer and artist in the face of the Palestinian genocide. Lots of thoughts to roll around in the mind considering your own practice.
via: proteanmag.com
February 18, 2024 4:51 pm
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Running For Cover – The Ken DeFeudis Story
Ken DeFeudis' "Run for Cover Lover" was a so-bad-it's-good song I got on a dub cassette from a friend in 1995. Suddenly it popped back into my head, and I found this thru Google
via: wordgoesflesh.com
February 13, 2024 2:09 am
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Gus Van Sant on Directing Feud, Truman Capote, 1998 Psycho
Great Matt Zoller Seitz interview with Van Sant, who has a lot to say about directing theory
via: vulture.com
February 9, 2024 10:01 pm
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uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.
A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. Essential as Google Image search is being hopelessly corrupted
via: github.com
February 9, 2024 4:20 am
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The Only Black Man at the Party: Joni Mitchell Enters the Rock Canon
Apparently, the Joni Mitchell blackface episode pops up occasionally on social media to try to get her cancelled. I had no idea this even happened, and I'm the last to discover that's her in full race drag on the cover of the 1977 Don Juan album. Miles Parks Grier's essay in Genders from 2012 deep dives into this bizarre period to sort out wtf JM thought she was doing. Coke is not mentioned, but c'mon man.
via: colorado.edu
February 7, 2024 4:29 pm
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Want to sell a book or release an album? Better start a TikTok. - Rebecca Jennings
There are plenty of people who view this as a good thing. A society made up of human beings who have turned themselves into small businesses is basically the logical endpoint of free market capitalism, anyway. To achieve the current iteration of the American dream, you’ve got to shout into the digital void and tell everyone how great you are. All that matters is how many people believe you.
via: vox.com
February 7, 2024 4:22 pm
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Soon Will Come a Day That None of This Exists
Jack Crosby on the closure of Sports Illustrated and the end of the media model as we know it, a dystopian future of untruths
via: discourseblog.com
January 20, 2024 5:35 pm
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The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
This is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.
via: wired.com
July 3, 2023 8:19 pm
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The Artist's Responsibility - Brad Troemel
Satire on this very tedious discourse
via: altcomics.tumblr.com
June 22, 2023 5:18 am
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TV’s Streaming Model Is Broken. It’s Also Not Going Away.
"It’s absolutely conceivable that the streaming subscription model is the crypto of the entertainment business."
via: vulture.com
June 11, 2023 8:39 pm
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I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing
On the beauty of a printed book unsullied by an internet steadily filling with garbage
via: arstechnica.com
June 11, 2023 4:54 am
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