watched this on a plane on mute without subtitles while working on some music that is directly influenced by brazilian artists like the ones featured on the soundtrack and i think that is called praxis?

i don’t understand how this movie wasn’t a bigger deal but i believe its reputation will grow. there is so much going on here and it is all executed so subtly. it also struck me as Tarantino-esque, if Tarantino had a point of view. Moura…

tl;dr - if you like The Substance but not this you are racist and also maybe kind of stupid 

i appreciate Boots Riley more than i enjoy him. i like that he is a music guy raised on classic era Simpsons, 16-bit video games and Spike/Gondry music videos with progressive politics. i do think he falls victim to his own ideas but it’s hard not to root for a guy like this. 

i loved Sorry To Bother You when it…

absolutely nothing about this movie has stayed with me since leaving the theatre. why? could it be that the four leads make you feel like you’re watching a high school drama club rendition of the source material, or that Eggers doesn’t really do or say anything of value with the iconic imagery and story at his disposal? there are some great moments in the first act but it more or less grinds to a halt by about an hour in…

i consider emo and pop punk to represent the end of culture. its ascent to ubiquity coincides with 9/11, poptimism and the advent of social media - harbingers of the apocalypse all - and its unending revival, the repeated reanimation of a corpse long since declared dead on arrival, itself an unrecognizably warped bastardization of the music and subculture from which it claims to be derived, best represents to me the definitive millennial neoliberal experience of refusing to make any…