writer, director, would rather be a storm chaser
Nashville, TN
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Before I was even born, Mom would sing me “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” She kept it up the rest of my life.
Today, I played it for her. She held me close and whispered “You’re the first one I ever heard when they told me they loved me.”
We sang together until she fell asleep.
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We had to read this pamphlet about watching a loved one slowly die that the hospice nurse gave us, so my sister decided to do it out loud like a children’s book while holding our nephew, and he loves it
Being a person is so funny
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I hope me replying to call you a dipshit gives you a hundredth of a penny so at least one part of your day had value
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"Why can't they make non-meat alternatives more affordable and convenient? Also fuck anyone who would be incentivized by affordability and convenience."
People love hectoring more than they love progress, I swear.
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It’s weird how no one is talking about how Hope Walz is using witchcraft to go from holding Gus’s hand to teleporting on the other side of the prompter in 0.5 seconds (because the prompter is 39 feet away)
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We are now in a bitter contest to see which sibling can hit a shed 70 feet away with an egg, but Dad is trying to Babe Ruth his way into it
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Probably because she walked around it, but I’m just guessing based on the light that’s hitting my retinas, becoming electrical signals, traveling along my optic nerve into my brain which is better than yours
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I’m sorry I don’t want to be tweeting this but Tim Walz is here beating me with a 2x4 and forcing me to send my cybermules to defend him. When they all like my response to you just know they are robots, not real Americans like us. We’re gonna get through this, Melody.
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Do you have any videos from psychics or pick-up artists on this topic? I’d like to make sure I’m cross-checking the most credible sources.
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One of the last things mom said to me was “So when I go, I’m going to send all my belief in you into you, and your job will be to finally let yourself have it.”
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I’m kind of shocked that after twelve years both of these sides still miss the point of the criticism. It wasn’t the destruction, it was that Superman didn’t look like he cared.
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I am fine with the burning cars and with some poster not liking the burning cars. I’m fine with both because neither are evil. The government is violently ripping families apart and the VP is threatening to deport that poster. I hate both of those things because both are evil.
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Mom’s decided to go home, knowing what that means. We are all going to be with her. In a year thus far marked by sudden loss and death, I feel very grateful we have this sort of awareness and space. But, you know, there’s never time enough when it’s your mom.
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Movies done right give you limitless shady corners you have to crane your neck to peek into, while most modern television uses its increased time to open every door and walk you through every room of the house. Nothing left to think about, to imagine. So you forget and move on.
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Verbinski understands he’s writing sentences with pictures and always knows and uses the correct punctuation
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Oh no, Melody. It’s already happening, Melody. Oh god, Melody. There’s nothing I can do, Melody.
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Scott was an all-timer at shit talk but one time I got depressed and really into making miniature wells and foliage and shit. All hideous, just awful, but Scott said “I am unreasonably excited about this.” and serious as hell told me to sell those ugly things for $200 each.
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Don’t know that I can appropriately describe the feeling of sitting beside my mother’s deathbed as she sleeps long enough for me to watch every prequel movie on TNT
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I didn't know people thought TWISTER was bad, but I probably didn't know that because it's the kind of movie where I can't fathom how that would even matter
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If you aren’t making art because you hate the process of making art, then you aren’t an artist
“It’s not really enjoyable to make music now… it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you have to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making music.” Founder of @suno_ai_ @MikeyShulman
Always interesting to hear someone with a completely opposite view to me.
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I love how he has this bit in his mind and he doesn’t let go of it until he’s quintupled down. I watched the clip like six times last night because he’s so confident in how funny it is.
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I know it isn’t that but it does read like “we fucked up and hired actors who were too good”
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We both agree that BvS’s opening angle on it is an outstanding bit of filmmaking, but that’s because it’s so keyed on Bruce’s perspective. MoS doesn’t find ways to show Clark’s perspective during the fight until this conclusion. I think it’s a legitimate criticism.
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One year when I was a kid my mom decided she wanted to run a fireworks stand so we bought thousands of dollars in wholesale fireworks. But she forgot to rent a tent in time. She called in a favor from a friend.
We sold fireworks that year out of a dark green cloth funeral tent.
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Maybe I missed it but it does seem weird that Aronofsky has a new movie yet I haven’t seen him or his work generate much noise in the Content Mill style. No rankings, no “one gotta go,” no performative “real ones remember” about mother! or whatever. No shooters.
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Here you go, buddy. This is the one you made and would use as an all-purpose response. Congratulations, condolences, just checking in. Didn’t matter. Always this fuckin guy.
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My contribution to this is that there are few better feelings in the world than an actor jerking their whole body away from you and toward the set in the middle of your sentence because they found their in. Probably looks weird to regular people but it’s unbeatable.
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I’ll never understand people who freak out about this stuff. I’m not trying to high horse anyone here. I eat everything anyway. But factory farming is one of the worst things we do ethically and environmentally. If I can have the same thing without that, why wouldn’t I want that?
A Bill Gates backed company is now producing butter with no animals, no plants, and no oils — it’s made from carbon.
The company is working with restaurants, bakeries, and food suppliers to incorporate their carbon-made butter.
Mainstream media reports it has the “blessing and backing of Bill Gates.”
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Really says something that a passing observation (that IMAX frames are often compositionally worse because they just give you more dead space) got you flooded with replies saying you were using big film school words to sound smart. These are all very normal words!
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I’ve said it before but there was a period in the late 90s where all you needed was Helen Hunt and a bucket of water and you were set
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That’s the definition of content. You consume and move on. It’s not just TV. It’s everything. We are in the fifth decade of STAR WARS solely because a long time ago in a theatre far, far away people watched something that left them curious with limitless edges to fill in.
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When Mom was unconscious most of the time, I sat close, listened to her breathe. At one point, her hand reached out and she rasped, “Wa.. wa…”
“Water? You want water?”
She reached all the way to my chest, pinched me, and said “Wocka Wocka!” then smiled and went back to sleep.
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You put me in a tough situation here because in order to prove you wrong I have to show you pictures of kids, and I don’t think you’re the kind of guy I should do that with
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Managed the restaurant for a surprising amount of the night in this glove I made with fingerling potatoes
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Today I learned about post-operative delirium, and also that my mom’s hospital room is covered in invisible fish that it’s my job to move from place to place until she’s happy
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I watched BLADE RUNNER like nine times over a 20 year period before it finally won me over, but when it did it got all the way into my system. I guess I could’ve stopped trying after 2 or 3. Can’t say why I didn’t. You just never know. It’s nice movies are like that. Life, too.
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Hadn’t gotten on Facebook in a while. This is 90% of it now, I guess. AI implosion. It’s like an abandoned mall full of haunted mannequins trying on clothes and pretending to eat.
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Finally caught EEPHUS. That’s a special movie. I also think it’s got the best editing I’ve seen all year. Pretty sure it won’t get attention for that, because it’s good in a way that’s as hard to pull off as it is easy to not notice.
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Do me a favor, go knock on a couple doors today, say you’re with the Trump campaign, and tell regular people that
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Calling HONEY DON’T! “The new Charlie Day movie” because I like Charlie Day and think he should be in more movies
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There’s a person in the comments saying they didn’t like this because Aunt May was too rude and cold to Peter after he told her he got her husband of 50 years killed, and it would’ve been more realistic if she’d consoled him.
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She used to do that when I was a kid, when I’d get moody. Pinch my shirt and do that. I don’t remember if I mentioned that when everything was happening. Funny lady. One of the last things I ever heard her say. It’s nice.
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There’s nothing elitist about saying if you’re passionate about and want to work in any artform, you should care about that artform in ways that extend beyond your own individual taste.
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That comes through, I just don’t ever see him concerned for what the fight is doing to the world around him. I’d go so far as to say fewer people would’ve hated that neck snap if there had been a hair more concern for the city beforehand.
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It’s kinda funny that people ever thought the dude who played Captain Hammer and the guy who gave us Peacemaker would somehow fail to deliver a good Guy Gardner. That’s like the one character you had to know they were gonna nail.
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This is where I admit to you I kept the old one on my phone for the last two years because I knew in my heart this moment would come
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