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This feels like a difficult transition; whereas before in Match Factory Girl, Ariel, and Shadows in Paradise, Kaurismäki was working with a group of actors who seemed so perfectly and completely in tune with his sensibilities, here...
Someone says something true and sharp. The response is never "you're wrong". Never "here's why". Always "your language is inappropriate". The content vanishes. The tone becomes the trial. The person who said the thing is now defending...
Brewster McCloud (1971) But Cort stars in the title role, as an odd, reclusive young man who lives in the basement of the Houston Astrodome, and dreams of flying like a bird. Sally Kellerman is Brewster’s guardian angel Louise, with...
The Psychedelic Sound, January 1968, front left: Linda Lizzi and Tina Bauer, back from left: Jim Schelley, Ronnie Amato and Tom Berger. Not pictured: bassist Kevin Kerr. The Daily Freeman reported on January 22, 1968 that the Psychedelic...
Did Big Brother's players purge the BB28 of its only gay person? Did Jason win immunity? Did Julie Chen Moonves surprise me? Let's discuss the third live eviction!
Hello you fine Internet folks,Today we are talking about one of the stranger x86 stories I have seen in a while. According to both SemiAccurate and Reuters, Intel is giving a new startup called RosaicLabs access to the register transfer...
has anyone ever given a name to the bird that appears in the first shot of the Twin Peaks intro?
Right across the state line from the ever-expanding Colossus II site is 2875 Stanton Road, home to a fleet of gas-burning turbines that generate electricity to keep xAI (and its customers) online. The pushback in Southaven, Mississippi...
Well, here’s something we never saw coming: An Alfred Hitchcock movie that doesn’t quite hang together. Number Seventeen (1932) is a thriller about a group of criminals who meet in a vacant house – at #17 – to retrieve a diamond...
Side 2, "The Ninth Wave", of *Hounds of Love,* my most listened-to side of music when albums had sides ever, gives me chills to this day, I tested. More Kate here.
I have read of the discipline of a nightly "twenty lines of Homer", which I suppose to include construing, perhaps after copying out, twenty (Greek) lines of The Iliad or The Odyssey every night. At the moment, the only citation I can...
I've been 3d printing and painting some 1:144 WW1 aircraft, for playing Canvas Eagles, a tabletop WW1 dogfight game.I can't say that I've been exceptionally productive: these three (plus a Fokker Triplane that I gave away as a gift) are...
Part political/military drama, part murder investigation, and part a Korean Joyeux Noel. Park’s third feature, and his earliest to make a splash over here, with the future stars of Lady Vengeance, No Other Choice, and Parasite. At a...
Today marks 100 days of reading, but it was not a difficult challenge for me since I have been reading everyday for more than a year and over the last five years I have read 240 books. I thought I would end my 100 days of reading with...
Good news: I rolled the dice and scored another great iPhone from Amazon Renewed. It’s in excellent condition, as listed, and even has 93% battery health. Win! It is a remarkable deal, an iPhone SE 3 64GB for $130 USD. It could replace...