my so-called euphoria

“O useless soulmate of my tedium! … we didn’t ask what it was all for, because we revelled in knowing that it was for nothing.” - Fernando Pessoa. April 25th, 2019, the raven came to me.

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For those trying to contain the dumpster fire that is Israel as a one-man problem in the form of Bibi Netanyahu please recall this blight has been democratically elected there since the Macrena was topping the charts. Israel IS Bibi. Imagine Bill Clinton continuing to the present day as President. That's how fucking insane Israel is for Bibi Netanyahu and his policies of cruelty.

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The world was cooler when it didn't know what it was.

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An Etsy poster I will soon be purchasing.

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Saw a TikTok where a guy listed five must-see limited series, and the first four I knew and were excellent so the fifth one I figured I had to check out. I feel like I’m fairly pop culturally savvy and especially with HBO well-versed on the options but this one in 2019 I had never even heard of before: YEARS AND YEARS. Having watched one episode and know nothing about the showrunners I feel it must be somehow related talent-wise to Black Mirror, and cast members were on that show as well, and the premise is very Black Mirror. It’s kinda bonkers. It starts in 2019 and follows a family in a dystopian future built from what is imagined on first flush of Trump in the world. So before Covid and seemingly didn’t predict that, but each episode jumps in time so first one jumps five years forward to 2024 and you are seeing the world as imagined in 2019. As we are truly living in a dystopia now, it’s going to be fascinating to see where the fictional story goes. It’s pretty dark so far.

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Finished YEARS AND YEARS now. It is solid, it trips up by the end, and rarely lives up to the promise of the first episode, but also does some things that warrant praise, like how it depicts family dynamics - it's at its best when it roots in the drama and ennui of daily life, with a backdrop of terrifying sci-fi (terrifying in regards to how close it hit the mark to what we know does happen six years after the show was made). I wanted the Mike Leigh version of this concept, and it too often tried to make the sci-fi themes upfront and center.

[luck-system-shenanigans]

i feel like im a weird age where i got just a blurry glimpse at the world Before. it used to be cold in the mornings and websites had fun games and the search results showed you what you searched for. covid wasn't a thing. can anybody fucking hear me. did i dream it all????

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I'm most concerned for the young folk who have no measure to what they feel, taking a weakened immune system as baseline, taking as fanciful and Utopian any and all notions of civic decency, and no recognition of shame.

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On vacay.

[indie-navarrete]

ALICE AYRES — 2004, CLOSER

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Isabelle Huppert

[zoesupreme]

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Saw a TikTok where a guy listed five must-see limited series, and the first four I knew and were excellent so the fifth one I figured I had to check out. I feel like I’m fairly pop culturally savvy and especially with HBO well-versed on the options but this one in 2019 I had never even heard of before: YEARS AND YEARS. Having watched one episode and know nothing about the showrunners I feel it must be somehow related talent-wise to Black Mirror, and cast members were on that show as well, and the premise is very Black Mirror. It’s kinda bonkers. It starts in 2019 and follows a family in a dystopian future built from what is imagined on first flush of Trump in the world. So before Covid and seemingly didn’t predict that, but each episode jumps in time so first one jumps five years forward to 2024 and you are seeing the world as imagined in 2019. As we are truly living in a dystopia now, it’s going to be fascinating to see where the fictional story goes. It’s pretty dark so far.

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Im a fan when she leans into her nineties influences, but there’s a bit too much lesser Swift to most of her songs. This is a banger.

[darkbloomiana]

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Anne Carson.

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Something about an Olivia Rodrigo bothers me, and it's not because I think she's fake so much as wholesale manufactured maybe. Fake implies an underneath. I'm bothered by the way the persona persists even in the supposed candid moments, like I could believe she is AI whereas a Chappell Roan (even with a ludicrous name) seems like an authentic person that fell into a cartoon.

As we go deeper down the AI rabbithole, will this kind of mannequin pop diminish? At some point character matters, right, no matter how catchy the melody?

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God or aliens demonstrably exist by the sheer fact that human beings - with the lot they got running them- haven't blown themselves up twelve times over since the invention of the bomb.

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If you have a fuck to give, give it.

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Ingmar Bergman on the creative process

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sometimes a sentry - from out of the darkness - comes to you.