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Philosophy. Phenomenology and Existentialism. Science Fiction and Fantasy. Classical Music. 44. Single.
San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2016
So I’m thinking of movie to blue sky
Gabe was already mad I was still here BEFORE it started generating child porn.
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Starting my 2026 movie watching experience with a bang
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A week of watching feel good classics (with one exception)
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Five dead & Five living 1. Merleau-Ponty 2. Kant 3. Sartre 4. Husserl 5. Rawls 6. James Conant 7. Walter Hopp 8. Evan Thompson 9. Michel Dalissier 10. Jean-Philippe Narboux
Top 10 thinkers who have influenced me the most: 1. David Hume 2. Ludwig Wittgenstein 3. Derek Parfit 4. William James 5. John Searle 6. John Stuart Mill 7. Jürgen Habermas 8. Friedrich Hayek 9. Rudolf Carnap 10. R.M. Hare
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Adorno was deeply wrong about Sibelius, who is one of the greatest composers of the 20th Century and far outstrips Adorno's beloved serialists. Like, imagine thinking SCHOENBERG of all people is a better composer than Sibelius?
all of Adorno’s music writing is basically perfect sorry
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As someone chair bound with a fractured ankle, I would happily let Grace Kelly take care of me.
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The great thing about Nutcracker The Motion Picture is that it tries to restore much of Hoffman's original story and has brilliant set designs and costumes by Maurice Sendak. Highly recommended.
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Watching Miracle on 34th St. (1947) and it is SUCH a dialogue driven movie. I feel like we have lost the art of the snappy dialogue movie, which is such a shame.
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Is twitter feeling extra racist and nativist and more right wing than usual or is it just me?
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One thing they don’t tell you about crutches is that they are a horrible way to get around and an incredibly easy way to reinjure yourself. Ironic!
Fractured my ankle :-(
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More stuff that is obviously aimed at investors while pretending to be aimed at creators.
Creators should LOVE Ai. AI doesn’t make uncreative people creative. It allows creators to become exponentially more creative. Creative iteration that used to take hours , days or weeks, can happen in minutes. The different routes you wanted to take but didn’t have the
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…is Auron MacIntyre related to Alasdair?
Checking out recent literature from the hard/far-right, and when I checked THE TOTAL STATE, the new book of theory by one of the far-right’s more recent upstart “dissident public intellectuals”, this was the entire bibliography. One page. No citations. No secondary sources
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They definitely are not a fan of radical politics (as in the French Revolution episode they pilloried my boy Camille Desmoulins), but they really hate the far right (as in the Nazis in power eps where they keep referring to Hitler's plan as to Make Germany Great Again).
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I'm a new listener to TRIH but I love. Having only listened to their French Revolution series and being in the midst of the Nazis in power series, I think they fit in generally as moderate liberals.
Five years ago, two English historians started a podcast to occupy themselves during lockdown, and The Rest Is History. 📚 Our 2025 Show of the Year, @theresthistory, is a banter-filled trip to the past with hosts @DCSandbrook and @Holland_Tom. https://t.co/VIN3jWDh1b
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Having watched The Way of Water last week, I still think these movies are bizarrely sauceless given their popularity. The actors feel irrelevant, the characters feel under characterized. Way of Water felt like a side quest from the main storyline.
Despite having the biggest box office numbers of all time, the Avatar franchise has had almost no cultural impact compared to Marvel, Star Wars, etc. It’s very strange. Why is that? Give me your best explanations.
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The key to understanding Tinker Tailor is to watch the Alec Guinness show, watch the Gary Oldman movie, read the book, and then do it all over again.
Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) delivers one of the great minimalist performances. Oldman modeled the character’s stillness on real MI6 officers, turning restraint into razor-sharp tension. A masterclass in quiet acting.
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I strongly agree with this. Shutter Island is my least favorite Scorsese movie (that I've seen) by a mile.
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