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The Duritti Column - Otis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Lreb5U87U&ab_channel=yumizo1030
I saw it yesterday & I really enjoyed it. A lot more than I expected to. The music performances were all great.
He's my favourite rock vocalist. Maybe i like Mark E Smith a little more. Call it a toss-up.
Yeah, his voice is ugly (sometimes - not always! listen to the records from the late 60s/early 70s). But he's a rocker, not a crooner, and there's a world of difference between having a great voice and having a great ROCK voice. & rock music is often at its best when it's ugly & raw.
Dylan's vocals are one of my favourite things in the world, period.
At his peak (Another Side through Blonde on Blonde), he possessed an almost inhuman sense of timing - just listen to the way he makes the phrase "Tax deductable charity organization" sound like the most natural and flowing line ever uttered in Ballad of a Thin Man. Or listen to the way he gets the punch-lines across in Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat - comedians hone their craft for years in order to sound so effortless and natural.
i'm a dylan obsessive, slightly less so than when i was younger, but it's ingrained in me.
i'm 'probably' going to catch it new years day.
tbh i've been underwhelmed by all the reviews saying that it's a fairly formulaic, standard biopic. that's something that just doesn't appeal to me. there are several dylan docs that i really enjoy that i can watch any time i like, & there's a great dylan movie that already exists that gives me the weird, baffling experience i think his career deserves (i'm not there).
but i've heard enough positive things about his performance & his imitation to make me want to check it out, i guess, even though i expect to not like it too much.
movie: a place without fear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcBOOshGWt8&ab_channel=MUBI
i don't watch tv & i haven't listened to music in years. but bill callahan had a new record out this year, & he's always been great & i'd assume whatever he's making now is just as good.
john edwards?
i agree.
i would not support that because i think it's produced pretty bad outcomes & i think more of the same would produce more of the same, but it's a completely rational response.
it's not a rationalization to recognize that there are massive gaps in cognitive ability between populations & that this explains a lot of the disparities in outcomes between them. it's just a reality, & as one of my favorite writers said, reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
i'm agnostic on why those gaps are there, but i think there's lots of good reasons to think that a lot of it is genetic, & if that is the case it does no one any good to deny that & we should want to know whether or not it's true.
The Fall
Steve Reich
Bill Callahan
A Place Without Fear
My First Film
In a Violent Nature
Faster Pussycat is a good starting place, though there's no nudity in it I think.
I also really like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls & Vixen. They're all silly & raunchy & fun. To me, anyway. & you will see boobs in those ones. Pretty sure they're all natural.
I haven't caught 'Between...' yet, but i'm a big fan of the director, & most of his films have a grainy, hazy style. I know nothing about the tech side of movies, & I have not idea whether he's shooting on actual old stock film or (more likely I'd imagine) he's applying filters to get that look, but either way, it's definitely his style.
His 2013 movie 'Soft in the Head' is up on youtube. If you look at a few minutes of it, I'd imagine it probably doesn't look a world apart from his new one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGBwPrtHRLs
Nathan Silver - most of his movies have a home-made, me and my camera casual feel that i find incredibly satisfying.
My favorite is probably 'Soft in the Head.'
The stats i've heard say that women generally orgasm less frequently when having one time hook ups, and have more orgasms when in a long term relationship. I believe I read that in Mona Charen's book 'Sex Matters.'
So a lot of those comments in there make sense. It's probably more satisfying to have a vibrator than a hook-up.
Crane wife pt 2 by the decemberists
There are 4 Pink Floyds, really.
The first two? Not my favorite thing, but i can enjoy it. Nice to space out to. Noodly, pleasant guitar solos. I can appreciate it. Or I could before I really found out what Roger Waters was. Would not listen to that music now.
The last two? Absolutely not.
iIdon't think so.
I think a metacritic score or the rt average critic rating (not the rt%, which i think is not very useful) tell you something.
It's not the final authority on a movie or whether i'm going to like it.
But it's still a useful filter for sorting out whether i might be interested in something.
Godfather
Goodfellas
Tampopo
There Will be Blood
Princess Mononoke
fwiw, charles murray started a thread at bluesky containing current college testing data to see if it would be removed & if he'd be suspended. it's still up a day later.
https://bsky.app/profile/charlesamurray.bsky.social/post/3lb6vlvntz224
but maybe the fact it was specifically put there as a dare made the mods feel like they shouldn't remove it.
that's a good point. i'll make that change.