William Duryea
@whduryea
Followers
2K
Following
106K
Media
603
Statuses
10K
I'm not here. I'm taking a break from social media. This is simply an archive of my tweets.
Joined November 2010
Have plans with family tonight, so I'm squeezing half an hour of listening to "Stairwell Song" on repeat while holding back tears into the middle of the day instead of waiting for midnight. Let no one say that I failed to make the most of the final moments of 2024.
2
0
21
Wonderfully incisive (and only occasionally vicious) review. Love the phrase "defamation by way of lyrical style.".
0
0
16
Even ignoring the insane suggestion that drabness is more realistic, the idea that dreamlike color diminishes a movie's emotional stakes may be one of the most profound misunderstandings of film history ever.
Jon M. Chu responds to criticism of certain scenes looking too desaturated in ‘WICKED’:. “There’s colour all over it. I think what we wanted to do was immerse people into Oz, to make it a real place. Because if it was a fake place, if it was a dream in someone's mind, then the
1
1
17
RT @slicesofanxiety: If the indie lit scene has taught me anything, it’s that everyone’s screaming ‘look at me’—but no one’s making eye con….
0
13
0
Listening to "squabble up," bouncing my cat in my arms along to the beat, and telling him it's like he's "in the ride with the bass pumping.".
3
1
23
Who among us hasn't spent the last 30 years being incrementally devoured by our own shadow.
Throughout the different rereleases of Super Mario 64 over the years, Mario is being progressively consumed by his shadow. With each new engine the game runs on, his shadow rises up further from the ground and covers more of his feet.
2
4
41
It's insulting enough that the eternal footman is holding my coat, he doesn't have to snicker about it.
0
0
13
The "Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me" meme, but it's about Pete Campbell's ending in Mad Men.
0
0
4
Struggling to fathom what it would be like to view the world from a position of assumed strength rather than assumed weakness.
2
0
28
My relationship with coffee is basically this, but replace 5 pm with 8 am, and the outcome is always Uncut Gems.
5pm coffee so dangerous…. u either get the perfect boost or ur at a casual dinner thinking you’re in Uncut Gems.
3
0
18
This also applies to some dogs, but only if they seem particularly adorable or harmless. I turned off The Babadook after three minutes, because I knew immediately that dog was fucked.
1
0
5
I'd love to dunk on people who think like this, but I've turned off multiple movies at the first sight of a cat, because I didn't want to spend the entire film stressing about whether it would survive. Toxoplasmosis is the closest I will ever come to understanding fatherhood.
6
1
28
@bizzrmiscreant I changed up my audio setup to incorporate an external mic, since I was getting complaints about my voice being too quiet. Not sure if it fixed the problem or just introduced new ones. So it goes.
2
0
7