telstar of telstar records

ramblings of a cat i think

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I'm so excited to do jack shit and watch football tomorrow

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bakshi's LOTR and lynch's Dune are so similar

they're both adaptations of extremely dense genre fiction

both had choices for director that had never done a project with that kind of scope and subject before

both were originally supposed to be two films that were eventually forced to be one

both were eventually superseded by adaptations that were willing to give the story the time they needed, leaving them both largely forgotten

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beau is afraid is such a fucking distressing movie

never lets you get too comfortable

it ties together in a scary uneasy way

truly psychological horror in the truest sense. don't see it if you don't have a shoulder to cry on

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i love this post so much because it keeps very consistently getting new notes

presumably people who have just seen it and are looking for someone to share their sensation of WHAT THE FUCK

bad (good?) choice for the first movie to watch in theaters without anyone i know

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watching Reservoir Dogs and The Italian Job within a few days of each other was an absolutely fascinating experience

Reservoir Dogs being a really great example of low-budget filmmaking, with most of the film taking place in one warehouse and the heist that precedes the events of the story never being shown to keep tension (+ some truly iconic uses of popular music)

The Italian Job is as far away from that as you could get, plot skipping from Italy to Switzerland to Philly to L.A. within the first few scenes, plus some of the most gratuitous chase scenes ever. it also drops the same cover of Money by Pink Floyd twice if you're wondering if the music is cleverly used, lol

both are really good in their own ways

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i am SO GLAD i got myself to take myself seriously when it comes to music. i have an album on the way, im working on some music for an nsfw game and im just so happy people are enjoying my work

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That was a harrowing horrifying experience that has left me disturbed drained defeated and very possibly incapable of experiencing sexual arousal ever again.

10/10 a masterpiece of the art form.

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the ears are so multitudinous... im so upset that this is probably one of my favorite movies now, my favorite movies list should NOT include this much surgery but HERE WE ARE

i really hope david cronenberg knows how begrudgingly respected he is in my heart

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i love following the #football tag because i get both sports. i like both sports.

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HOWEVER I DO NOT LIKE THE FORMULA 1 TAG

I'm not sure what I expected but a part of me was just BLINDSIDED by how much fanfic is there

im not going to stop you but I'm just... surprised

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i love following the #football tag because i get both sports. i like both sports.

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apparently they're making an adaptation of the Haunted Mansion attraction (again)

and this cast is just simply way better than it needs to be

like, Disney has had this problem with the Haunted Mansion for a long time, where the ride has a surprisingly strong fandom in its own right (doombuggies is a website specifically for documenting the minutiae of the ride that's been actively updated since the 90's)

but the ride has just enough of a plot and concept that's just too dark to properly adapt into a Disneyland-friendly property

because the ride itself is structured as: the first half is extremely gothic horror and has a bunch of lore about a tragic romance cut short by a vengeful spirit, before a bunch of unrelated ghosts have a goofy musical number at you

they seem only interested in adapting the comedic half of the ride, but i hope the pendulum swings the other way, and we get a high-melodrama musical(?) about the first half

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just realizing that both my favorite movie and book have several framing devices within each other

[fruitsoftheweb]

Damage prediction on pears during transportation.

[hollowtones]

bad and naughty children get put in The Pear Wiggler to atone for their crimes

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I think it's possible that Asteroid City may be, in fact, Wes Anderson's strange way of crying for help

It kind of comments on the way the deadpan style influences things in a way that's hard to mention without spoilers

I just think someone should check on him

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god, house of leaves is so damn good

it's the most re-readable book ever and it literally starts with a warning that you will eventually come back to it one day, and that this is a sign of bad things about to happen

in other news i happen to be extra afraid of the dark again, no reason why

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watching There Will Be Blood and i can absolutely see why they put Paul Dano in as riddler

he has a strange gift to be kind of a manchild and terrifying at the same time

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realizing that a friend of yours is watching The Visit is one of the most powerless experiences one can possibly have - the inability to explain why it's so bad but the need to save them

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me all the time: "man why is my sleep schedule so fucked up"

me last night: "yeah it's 12:30 am let's START a 2h 40m minute movie"

me tonight, literally about to hop into bed at 1 am: "OH MY GOD THAT SONG NEEDS A DRUM CHANGE AT THE CHORUS FUCK" *rapidly opening FL studio*

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i just finished This Is How You Lose the Time War

utterly spirit-wrenching stuff, the condensed souls of a hundred thousand thousand poems dissolved and dropped into a blaze of love and fury

structurally beautiful, prose that moves in the shapes of dreams, with the grace of dragons physically impossible but present like grief