my boyfriend got to pick the movie in our marathon and picked bridge on thr river kwai, and i apologize to all of you for saying that movie is wildly boring
aaa. why is it 3 hours long
Mar 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
ive been playing a Lot of tetris lately and let me tell you: the lyrics of the russian folk song that is the theme are *filthy*
Mar 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
my only real retrograde opinions are i think we should bring back the mid-atlantic accent in all movies, and a man looks best with a flourishing moustache
brought to you by my ill self watching The Third Man
brendan fraser is awesome, im glad he made a triumphant comeback, it just sucks that he won for such a crappy irredeemable harmful movie
cf: theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/…
Mar 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
help im getting the Tuesday Scaries (like the Sunday Scaries but about your entire life)
basically i wish i made as much money writing heartfelt intense idealistic prose as lazy bigots do inventing shit
I find the most difficult part of far right research & writing is not finding out their nefarious plans, but rather convincing people that the nefarious plans they state clearly and often are both real and in progress right now
People tend to believe other people are fundamentally like them -- reasonable deep down, decent deep down, ultimately wanting to improve the world. But center-left people's incredulity about the far right & religious right is an example of where that belief falls short.
Feb 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
every american right wing christian, smiling beatifically while holding a knife aloft: religious freedom is when i get to pass laws about teenagers' genitals :)
my religious freedom DEMANDS you die of a miscarriage that could have been resolved with a 20 minute D&C :) sorry but jesus is more important :)
Feb 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
its extremely confusing that the france-UK-russia alliance was the Triple Entente but also "the Allies" while the Germany-Austria-Hungary-Ottoman Empire clique was the Triple Alliance but also Central Powers
yes im still obsessed with wwi, i also have a fever and dont know bulgarian history very well
Feb 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
My boyfriend is mad at me because I filled his coat pockets with potatoes as a joke
On like four separate occasions
Feb 8, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
watching RRR on netflix and its amazing but how come there is no option for original audio with english subtitles?? all you can do is choose what language it's dubbed in
however even with the language factor this movie is magnificent
Feb 6, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It's also just... the national punditry has been wringing their hands over a nonexistent leftism-to-dictatorship pipeline for a decade while this happened and is continuing its goosestep across the country
You have countless books from novels to memoirs to history books by Black authors straight up banned in schools, universities being muzzled, and the response is... muted to say the least... too much stentorian bitching about "le wokisme"
Feb 4, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
people always get either incredulous or pitying when i tell them i have aphantasia (cannot picture anything in my head, ever), but you can't miss what you've never had. i hope youre all having a rockin' time picturing blue squares or whatever
One term for it is "mind blind" and it's true I can't picture or imagine things visually but I can draw and write very vivid visual descriptions. I'm just never copying from a reference point in my head...
Feb 1, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
look at these pathetic fascists harassing kids in front of a library twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
pictured: hideous trash that is harmful to the city, municipal garbage
Jan 31, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
tomorrow im quitting smoking again. pray for me lads
the tweets are gonna be homicidal and insane. last time i tried quitting i got in an enormous feud with briahna joy gray
Jan 23, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
i love gay literary history and literally carry the Penguin Book of World War I Poetry in my purse and yet last year's film Benediction, a biopic of poet Siegfried Sassoon, is...... a frankly baffling mess
So many multitudinous choices in this world and this movie made so many of them
Jan 14, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
This weekend, a double feature of The Sting and Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid for maximal Newman/Redford beauty ... so far The Sting was *fucking amazing*
This film festival of male beauty is very pleasing to me
something i definitely did this year is learn a fuckton about World War I, an ongoing project that has made me feel more educated for sure
Fave books on the subject: 1. Poilu by Louis Barthas - best memoir, from a French socialist in the trenches 2. The World Undone by GJ Meyer - v good for basic overview 3. The First World War by Hew Strachan 4. The First World War by John Keegan - these 2 are complementary
Dec 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
i like that My Octopus Teacher opens with our main character explaining that he cannot be a good father to his preteen son Tom and then spends the rest of the film hanging out with an octopus
every time he praises the octopus i mentally insert "unlike my lame son, Tom." also....... he kind of wants to fuck the octopus???
