“As it turns out, I am capable of much unpleasantness.”
The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
@notbecauseofvictories / notbecauseofvictories.tumblr.com
“As it turns out, I am capable of much unpleasantness.”
The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Danny McCaw Reflections, ca. 2022 Oil on board.
This is so cool. Comments said it might be stuff from old worlds fair in Chicago
in terms of my other hobbies, I feel like every warm sunny afternoon finds me with my forehead pressed up against my back window, muttering ".......planting time? time for plants? plant?????" to myself as I stare at my empty tomato cages.
I do feel like I'm somehow getting away with something by watching all these Artistic Films. Like somehow I'm sneaking into a gilded theater, I'm rubbing my hands on the film canisters and DVD box sets, I'm taking a permanent marker and scrawling my little notes and opinions on the blank projection screen knowing that, come Monday, the janitor is going to open the doors and sigh, because Whelp, she's back again; apparently she had some thoughts about how Infinity Pool and Poor Things both reflect our postmodern concerns surrounding construction of the self. *sigh* It's going to take all day to wash this off...
POOR THINGS 2023 — dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
We must work. We must make money. But more than that, Bella, we must experience everything. Not just the good, but degradation, horror, sadness. This makes us whole, Bella, makes us people of substance. Not flighty, untouched children. Then we can know the world. And when we know the world, the world is ours.
POOR THINGS 2023 — dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
honestly if poor things did nothing but dramatize the moment when emma stone learns about suffering and almost throws herself into the sea with horror and grief, it would be enough.
Infinity Pool (2023) dir. Brandon Cronenberg
can you retire at 32, just because you're tired and frustrated and sending even just one more measly email seems like An Actual Literal Crime? asking for a friend here.
due to inflation you must answer my riddles five
due to budget cuts i will grant you two wishes
due to recent layoffs there is only one of me and I lie 50% of the time
The Feast (2021) | dir. Lee Haven Jones
ah, the most wonderful time of the year---when I sit down with a mug of tea and my vote by mail ballot, when I consult the meticulously researched Judicial Election guide published by Injustice Watch, as well as the Bring Chicago Home materials provided to me by a very cheerful door-to-door campaign worker, so I can vote in accordance with my conscience.
....and of course, I have to do this early, because I will be an election judge in a week and a half, and I can't let filling out my ballot interfere!
Reblogging to add the WTTW voter guide (aka, local PBS station), because the Injustice Watch guide didn't go through the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioners!
And also the Sun-Times/WBEZ guide, because I love my local NPR station, though it doesn't go granular enough in my opinion.
ah, the most wonderful time of the year---when I sit down with a mug of tea and my vote by mail ballot, when I consult the meticulously researched Judicial Election guide published by Injustice Watch, as well as the Bring Chicago Home materials provided to me by a very cheerful door-to-door campaign worker, so I can vote in accordance with my conscience.
....and of course, I have to do this early, because I will be an election judge in a week and a half, and I can't let filling out my ballot interfere!
the best websites are deeply specific, such as this chemically mutated hellscape (affectionate) or amazingribs.com which features recipes and guidance but also a quote from G.K. Chesterton about how the curves of a pig are "swift and yet heavy....[like] rushing water or in a rolling cloud." I will also accept this one California scuba diving BBS site (bulletin board system, an acronym I haven't needed for 20 years) specifically because it hosts wonderful articles about squids.