radio-aktivität

"wherever, whatever, have a nice day" art on @halothanic

[apjvff]

you know why blood is red? my favorite color. all my decision

[vhsmania]

[videogameoutofcontext]

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

christmas sucks again at my dumb fucking family's house

[dykesonfilm]

Whole house undiagnosed

[lowqualitymychem]

[rb2so4]

One pie with extra special agent on it please

[quasi-normalcy]

We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"

[oshioki]

Harry Dean Stanton

[inthedarktrees]

Madame is the greatest star of them all.

Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd. (1950) dir. Billy Wilder

[vilecousin]

Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950) is probably the most movie-besotted movie of all time. Start with the premise. Gloria Swanson, a silent-film star whose career was derailed by the talkies, is Norma Desmond, a silent-film star whose career was ended by the talkies. Her butler-chauffeur, Max, turns out to be a once-acclaimed silent-film director and Norma’s ex-husband. He’s creepily–and brilliantly–played by Erich von Stroheim, a once-acclaimed silent-film director who’d been reduced to playing character parts, mostly Nazis in World War II-pictures.

The most meta scene comes shortly after screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) takes up residence in Norma’s decrepit mansion, where he serves as a combination amanuensis/boy toy. He tells us that Norma throws regular movie nights, just for the two of them; Max is projectionist. The repertoire, of course, is her own films. We see a bit from one of them, a scene where the young Norma’s face is illuminated by candles.

The clip is from Queen Kelly, a 1929 film that, more than any other single factor, derailed the careers of Swanson (the star) and von Stroheim, the director. At least he was the director until producer Joseph Kennedy (Swanson’s lover and JFK’s father) fired him because the scenes he’d produced were too explicit and dark. Because von Stroheim retained the rights for what he’d shot, the film had never seen in the United States–until Sunset Boulevard. [x]

[normasshearer]

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

IN A LONELY PLACE 1950, dir. Nicholas Ray

[vibe-stash]

Phone calls in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960)

[imdrinkingmiso]

they hate me because the years of memory loss has purified my mind

[muzantropic]

Long conversation / Долгий разговор Natalia Livitchuk, 2016

[pinqui]

GENE KELLY as JOSEPH BRADY and FRANK SINATRA as CLARENCE DOOLITTLE ANCHORS AWEIGH (1945) Dir. George Sidney

[youtendtoforget-deactivated2025]

Sorry, but you’re not getting a taste of my penis . My beautiful precious cock. It’s reserved.

Oh Phantom of the Paradise on dvd you say ?

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.