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1: I finally got my account back.
2: A thousand apologies to all of you, especially anyone who got the phishing messages and might have been hacked in turn.
3: Bring me the head of Coach Antonia.
2: A thousand apologies to all of you, especially anyone who got the phishing messages and might have been hacked in turn.
3: Bring me the head of Coach Antonia.
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"Is this millennial or Gen X?" is a silly debate. Just like the bands the baby boomers grew up on were mostly made up of dudes born between 1940-42, older millennials grew up listening to music made by Generation X.
Released in 1996 as the second single from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, “1979” became the Smashing Pumpkins' biggest American hit, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on both the Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. The album was × Platinum in the United States. “1979” was almost left off the album: producer Flood gave Corgan a final deadline to complete the unfinished song or remove it from the record. Corgan went home, finished the lyrics that night, and returned the next day with a new demo that convinced Flood to keep it.
Billy Corgan wrote the track as a nostalgic reflection on adolescence and the transition into adulthood. Although the title refers specifically to the year Corgan was 12, the song is less a literal autobiography than an idealised reflection on what it felt like to be young.
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My favorite Tom Skerritt movie role is playing the minister father from A River Runs Through It. He so inhabits a character who loves his favorite son while knowing at a bone deep level that he's doomed that it breaks your heart.
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Some of the most feared and powerful Plains tribes were basically minor mountain or woodland farming peoples until they discovered how much more fun and rewarding it was to be horse nomads who terrorized their neighbors.
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It's fascinating how just like it took the Comanche, Lakota & other tribes a single generation to invent steppe nomad raiding from first principles once they got horses, the American settler response was basically to invent our own Cossacks. It's a major theme of Blood Meridian.
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My extreme minority opinion is that I like the Aykroyd parts of Ghostbusters that are kind of a straight occult adventure much more than the Bill Murray cool guy smirking that made the film such a huge hit.
These are my great-grandfather Dr. Sam Aykroyd’s transcripts from the Seances he hosted in the Old Farmhouse. It was the spirit of his work passed down through the generations that inspired my interests. He’s the original Ghostbuster.
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Heart of the Beast continues to draw audiences week after week and will likely end its run as a modest theatrical hit before doing monster business on streaming. Nice work, @DavidAyerMovies
The trades called HEART OF THE BEAST a bomb on opening weekend. It’s at $155M and still running. Never let a Friday headline write a movie’s obituary.
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Zack Stentz retweeted
LAFD Station 86 responded to a parent's worst nightmare: an unresponsive 3-year-old pulled from a Studio City pool. Arriving in 4 minutes, paramedics initiated advanced CPR. Within minutes, her heart beat again.
Today, Keira and her family joined leadership to honor the crew.
Today, Keira and her family joined leadership to honor the crew.
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Do people authentically dislike Tom King's writing or is it the usual thing that goes on here where people dislike him for political reasons and then search for aesthetic reasons to justify their opinions?
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It’s actually quite touching that the emotional climax of a propaganda film is the bravery and self-sacrifice of Chinese soldiers being recognized and treated with respect by American Marines.
Korean war, really brutal. Many frozen. The salute was for the soldiers keeping their post while holding their line.
Marine generals who still believed in honoring heroic soldiers even if they were enemy.
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My take on the Nathan Fielder Elizabeth Holmes documentary is that a film that gets Generation Z to be more critical of the media they consume and aware the ways in which supposed documentaries can manipulate them is performing an enormous public service.
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One of my favorite Richard Riehle roles, playing the stolen valor prison bus guard in The Fugitive. Such a perfect little scene, perfectly acted by everyone. youtube.com/watch?v=wMDr5w…
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The scene is a satisfying payoff to a great little runner where the audience sees Riehle's guard be a chickenshit and leave the wounded guard to die. You think he's going to get away with taking credit for Kimble's heroism in saving him, then BOOM! It makes you love Gerard.
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During the 1990s Internet boom, there was enough of old counterculture and bohemian San Francisco left for the techies to party with artists and weirdos and have some of that rub off on them (Burning Man is a remnant of this.) The current boom seems utterly sterile in comparison.
SF is not romantic because it is an over-optimized and rational place devoid of glamour and the “frivolity” of humanness. To be romantic with others you MUST have a romantic inner world. The essence of your 8 year old self choreographing dances in your bedroom then sewing a fit for your show in the living room for your parents type shi
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