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got so mad at some of the entries that have made it into the nyt top 100 movies of the 21st century so far that i had to cast my ballott

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tripped on my trouser hem on the stairs to the supermarket, spent more time AND money than i should've on groceries, got ignored by hs classmates i hadn't seen since la maturità because god forbid we act our age and be civil and say hello, went to 3 different pharmacies to get a cream for my brother and none of them had it, then got home with half my right arm covered in mosquito bites

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girllll (me) get up !!! get up girllll (me) !!!

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The critic Anna Kornbluh, author of the 2024 book “Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism,” suggests that our era of “experiential intensity and crisis” has led to an aesthetics of “realness without representation,” which excises “anything that would require time to interpret instead of rapid uptake . . . any confusion or ambiguity.” Kornbluh’s examples from art and pop culture, such as the film “Uncut Gems” and auto-fictional novels, all betray this removal of mediation. But the artifacts of the New Literalism seem to embrace mediation, even to double down on it with their supplementary signposts, historical snapshots, and expository tics. Many works insist precisely on the value of ambiguity—that liberal shibboleth “It’s complicated”—just in a ham-fisted, didactic way. And while Kornbluh finds immediacy narcissistic, I’m inclined to diagnose us instead with what Freud called repetition compulsion, a phenomenon that he linked to the death drive. Rather than allowing us to reëxamine history, this obsessive reënactment in fact severs us from it. As Freud writes, we “repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of . . . remembering it as something belonging to the past.” This will to copy and paste the images of history in effect occludes its alien beauty and force—the simulacrum devours its source.

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The Apprentice (2024) dir. Ali Abbasi

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Have you ever finished a book that was over 800 pages?

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“You’re just a person trying to get reality, the best of reality. Or even what is strange in everybody. What is..where is the point where they…they want so say it, they don’t want to say. I never push somebody…but it is interesting that everybody is so full of mystery. So full of beauty, so full of tenderness hidden behind…sometimes just bad words. I’m intrigued by people. And I love them, to be honest, I love them.” lovely Agnes Varda in some interview

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They're banning Palestine Action

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"Gusu? You mean the place with over 3000 rules?" THE UNTAMED

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some people watched true detective and decided rust was like, speaking to the secret truth of the universe instead of expressing grief

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this crossed my dash but i'm not going to bother non-mutuals unaware of my existence with a username mention so i'm re-starting the tag game chain

prompt: you just got a kind of shitty old car and it doesn't have bluetooth. you can only buy 7 CDs and you can't repeat an artist; what are you getting?

well my car radio doesn't have bt either but i barely use its cd slot because an aux input & a usb stick with 20+ folders are much more convenient, narrowing those down to 7 wasn't easy but we made it! with the usual caveat that i might change my mind tomorrow etc. :

ibn el leil, mashrou' leila (which i own in its deluxe edition, the demo interludes kind of break the flow but it has bonus tracks i adore so.)

concert in blue, iamamiwhoami (functions as a greatest hits of sorts)

heaven or las vegas, cocteau twins

go go diva, la rappresentante di lista

101 live, depeche mode (also functions as a greatest hits, it's unfortunately pre-violator but i don't like the selection in their other compilations as much)

eusexua, fka twigs (magdalene is superior ofc but it isn't a shitty car speakers album)

the happy star, lexie liu

tagging (no pressure ofc) @ailichi @teethburied @elipsi @verginediferro​ @timetravelstudies @quercucinus @flintsilvers and all the mutuals who see this and would like to share!

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hero (2002) dir. zhang yimou

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Bacurau… What does it mean? It’s a bird.  But it’s extinct, isn’t it? Not here, no. But it only goes out at night. It’s angry.

BACURAU (2019) dir. Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO & Juliano DORNELLES

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my unwillingness to do the shopping online (shipping is sooo expensive) + to reach the part of town where the only asian corner shop is made me contemplate making my own chili crisp from scratch, i was ready to cry and cough from frying chilies! almost forgot that sourcing douchi would present the same problem

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Homem com H aka Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso (2025 🇧🇷) directed by Esmir Filho, starring Jesuíta Barbosa

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Homem com H ( 🇧🇷 2025, Esmir Filho)