Up here in my tree,
newspapers matter not to me.
No more crowbars to my head,
I'm trading stories with the leaves instead.
My name is Tom. I was born in 1974 and I live in Niagara Falls, NY.
I am an artist, humanist, supporter of feminism, supporter of civil rights, socialist, introvert, bisexual, genderfluid. They, them. Single.
For something more in depth click here.
This is where I share myself. Sometimes through words as they spill randomly out of my head and onto the screen. It's also where I share my art, things that I love, and anything I find beautiful in the world.
If you want to wallow in progressive politics with me then find me on Twitter or Facebook. I will get political on here at times, but this is more of a quiet and introspective space for me.
I have found some truly wonderful people on here. I'm happy to call them my friends. I always like to find more.
I love movies. I love books. I love discussing them and learning new things. If we don't learn, if we don't doubt what we know, we cease to grow, and we learn to hate what we refuse to understand.
I need to read. Everything.
I need to lay on the floor in a pitch black room and just listen to music.
I need cuddles, classic films, intelligent discourse, and making out for hours.
Aspiring buddhist. Tree hugger.
I know nothing, and want to learn everything.
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Movie anniversaries in 2020: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is 30 this year, dudes!
I consider this a pretty much perfect movie– not perfect as in technically flawless or profound, but perfect as in it perfectly embodies the kind of movie it wants to be: a blend of the gritty TMNT Mirage comics and the sillier 1987 cartoon adaptation. It’s got great fight scenes. It’s got fun characters. It remembers that what makes the turtles so endearing are their brotherly bond and attachment to their sensei. In a weird way, it’s an unwitting swan song to 1980s culture as the 1990s were dawning.
The filmmakers could have just crapped out a generic kiddie product, but this movie is enjoyable and well-crafted, from Jim Henson’s amazing turtle costuems to the grotty visual style. I’ve seen this one multiple times over the years and it remains good viewing– it may even be my favorite comic book movie.
that Brian Eno quote about how whatever you find most repulsive about a medium (film grain, record scratches/fuzz, CDs skipping) will be the first thing you try and emulate once that medium is obsolete because it’s “the sign of a moment too powerful for the medium assigned to contain it”…. man…….
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” -Brian Eno
Liberals and Democrats are literally violating every past and future sexual assault victim right now, and there should be no coming back from this for them.
If you support the Democrats after this you are complicit.
It is not incumbent of me to make a choice between evils...it is incumbent of the party claiming moral superiority over the other to not provide an evil choice.
It IS a moral imperative of all of us to actually give a shit about the welfare of everyone.
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