187 YouTube subs, but the Spotify algo is good at finding needles in a haystack … Livv singing Blue.
Can't Compare Me Cuz My Aim Is Not To Please
lordkez’s Find Me in the Trees, I dig it….
Mind built to disrupt, never plan my day before I wake up….
Movies Watched -- Paths of Glory (1957)
86 minute running time but felt longer … heavy-handed anti-war movie from Stanley Kubrick, I wasn’t thrilled. And why are all these Frenchmen speaking English? Armchair generals and the dumb grunts who take the brunt. Farr recommended it. Bosley Crowther’s review at the time.
… you're a degenerate, sadistic old man.
Lost My Mind In My Stuff
2,160 YouTube subs and yet the Spotify algo is able to know what I like and find these kids for me … needles in a haystack now algorithmically exposed: Ethan Tasch’s “Room” … all about the Magnetic Fields, I suppose.
I Ain't Sorry To Know What I Like
The Spotify algo is really picking up its game (I bought some shares). 11,900 YouTube subs, but the algo found her for me.
MALIA singing “Fussy.”
Soul Food 灵魂食品
The Spotify algo did me a solid by recommending this song … Xu has 159 subscribers, but the algo doesn’t care, it knows what I like.
The Simpsons S01 E04
“Don't correct the man, Brat.“
Unsupervised
Movies Watched -- The Furies (1950)
109 minute running time … an unexpected surprise, this was pretty wonderful … totally gobsmacked that this was made in 1950 … Anthony Mann definitely interested in Greek or Shakespearean drama … transferred to the 1870s southwest … Barbara Stanwyck rubbing Walter Huston’s sixth lumbar, Daddy dearest until things take a turn. Desert littered with hugely erect cacti, very subtle. Only problem was my Criterion Collection disc had no subtitles so I missed a lot of dialogue, and the picture was super dark, not sure if intentional. Anyway, this is a green-go for sure, see it if you haven’t. John Farr liked it too.
Don’t bite off more than you can chew
Movies Watched -- Winter Sleep (2014)
196 minute running time … yeah, 196 minutes, but this is Nuri Bilge Ceylan so he gets a pass … I watched it over two nights, like a double feature … talk talk talk, people bickering at each other in Turkish for over three hours, the joy. But I didn’t hate it, oddly. Ceylan basically makes the same movie over and over again with slight variations, and his masterpiece is Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, which is truly great (I bought the Blu-ray for repeated viewings). If you like Ceylan, you’'ll enjoy Winter Sleep.
Dick Brody wasn’t thrilled: “Ceylan paces this thin dramatic sketch as if it were a Wagner opera, with ponderous pauses and fraught gazes yearning toward depths that the movie doesn’t reach.”
Zhuo-ning Su wrote this funny line in his review: “… the one thing that most conceivably justifies the awarding of the Palme d’Or, a hypnotic pull of the film that lulls you into a meditative trance, stems most likely also from the ceaseless conversations … the desperation a viewer feels when he checks to find there are still hours on the clock is also very real.”
Great line from Manohla Dargis’s really well-written review (she gets it): “… the movie can be classed as a character study although it often plays more like one of those spiritual autopsies that directors occasionally perform on their protagonists, gutting them with degrees of gravity, glee and precision and extracting flaws like diseased organs.”
You're an unbearable man.
Movies Watched -- Billy Liar (1963)
99 minute running time … I was not in the mood for this one, it struck me as a tragedy more than a comedy, especially with his chickening out in the end … back to the row house, didn’t matter that he had his army with him … I think self-delusion can only take you so far. Depressing, but as I say, I wasn’t in the mood.
Julie Christie knew him well, put his bag back on the platform