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Bibliophile, Ailurophile, Recovering Puritan, Co-Host of Moral Minority
Michigan, USA
Joined January 2020
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Eddington is Aster’s best work so far that like Beau is Afraid will repulse and confuse the casual moviegoer, but for others will stick in your craw and you’ll find yourself ruminating on for weeks after, alternately liking and loathing.
I wrote, belatedly on Eddington, and what happens when you try to mix the internet with the Western (See below tweet)
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Winter Kills(1979) has an Andreesen/Thiel-like figure who controls a ubiquitous surveillance system at the behest of the obscenely wealthy father of the assassinated President.
Be serious. The president of the US government is personally handing the most influential social-media platform for young people to his political allies, and everyone's supposed to just nod and say, "OK."
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This is an important essay by a former fact checker at the New Yorker who quit as a matter of conscience:
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Fresh week, fresh book haul. Most of the time, I prefer to support used and antiquarian booksellers. I make an exception for independent booksellers who carry challenging new works in translation. Today I picked up a mixture of classics and contemporary ambitious fiction.
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@bartlebytaco What say you? Is Ram the greatest post-Beatles’ album?
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For starters, put on “Monkberry Moon Delight” and you’ll swear you’re listening to boneyard Tom Waits. Next, treat yourself to McCartney’s answer to chamber pop maximalism of Pet Sounds with “The Back Seat of My Car”. Groove to the unreal, driving thick fuzz of “Smile On,” etc.
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Not to out myself as an unrepentant Paul McCartney apologist, but I’ve been re-listening to Ram(1971) for the past two days, and even at his most nonsensical and twee nothing compares to McCartney in peak melodic eclecticism mode.
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Suggested double feature: Winter Kills(1979)/Eddington(2025).
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Just watched Possession(1981) for the first time on Criterion and never has a film lived up to its reputation as infamously deranged and wonderful as this one. A raw psychological portrait of the madness of jealousy that shifts into gonzo high gear allegorical horror.
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You should read this piece from my friend @saintsoftness. You should read everything she writes actually. Oh, also buy her book, We the Parasites, after reading this. You won’t regret it and your life will be immeasurably enhanced.
For the Berlin Review (@blnreview): Notes toward a late criticism, on Motherwell's Open rectangles, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, and enjoining: "Dream About Me" as method. Link in reply. Auch in deutscher Übersetzung von Samir Sellami.
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My observation was that guns were not only the ubiquitous preoccupation of all respectable and and disreputable white folk, but inseparable from white identity and its concomitant “traditional” value, which I found sinister and strange.
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I only avoided this gun-loving conditioning because I was the only child of a single working mother and I had no paternal white male influence to steerme in that direction. This paired with natural independence of mind and eccentricity kept gun culture at a distance.
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Look, I grew up in the thick of rural conservative gun culture in Virginia and all the children of entrenched wealthy white familes alongside the the working class hicks were immersed in recreational hunting and gun fetishism from an early age.
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“Not does she think she has anything in common, not any longer, with the working-class world of her childhood…She has gone over to the other side but she cannot say of what…. She feels she is nowhere, “inside” nothing except knowledge and literature”(81).
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Watching otherwise smart people refuse to peak out of their online ideological echo chambers to carefully evaluate the evidence of the shooter’s politics (to the extent which he had any) and instead digging in and claiming absolute certainty is disappointing to say the least.
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America doesn’t produce coherent left militants that use assassination as a political tactic. Of course this doesn’t stop the right from imagining such a political animal. There is no ideological unity in the roving targets of reactionary anomie.
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Reposting my Eddington take for its timeliness.
Eddington is a film about narrative collapse and what happens to the American reactionary mind when it is uprooted, inundated by noise, and confronted with its own contradictions with no room for escape apart from the fantasy of an ultimate last stand against omnipresent evil.
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Seemed like a good time to watch EDDINGTON. Ari Aster is very close to Kubrick, not in form but in sensibility. All his films take their point of departure from the doll's house in the opening shot of HEREDITARY. This time the stage for the ironic play is the data centre.
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