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MaxBenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 2h

In conclusion

Shintaro Katsu as Zatoichi in front of a wall of flames. He has a strong, broad-featured face with prominent ears, sideburns, mustache, and unshaven cheeks. His eyes and nose are bruised and he is gritting his teeth as his cloak catches fire.

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 6h

SINGING I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL

PUT ANOTHER DIME IN THE JUKEBOX BABY

I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL

ˡᵒʳᵉᵐ ⁱᵖˢᵘᵐ ᵈᵒˡᵒʳ AND DANCE WITH ME

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MaxBenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 3h

* Excepting the Beat Takeshi one, but while I love it I also consider it false Zatoichi.

MaxBenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 3h

And it has as bravura a finale as any Zatoichi movie* - Zatoichi dispatches some henchmen while wearing a blood red oni mask, breakdances on a pavilion slicked with lantern oil, and after being set on fire, confronts the ghoulish yakuza boss while his cloak burns. It rips.

Highly recommended.

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MaxBenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 3h

And even were you to grant that none of the elements are new, they play out with unusual intensity. Ichi is defending himself from two different false accusations of murder, in addition to a looming confrontation with another master swordsman wishing to test his skill.

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MaxBenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 3h

Complaining about Zatoichi getting stuck with an orphan, Zatoichi gambling, Zatoichi taking on the debt of a desperate stranger and paying it back in blood....Do you complain that the sun rises each day, that darkness falls when it sets? Do you complain about that one season follows another?

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MaxBenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 3h

In the first place it's absurd to complain about recurring scenes and stories in films that aspire to folklore.

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MaxBenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 3h

There are those who will tell you that ZATOICHI AT LARGE (1972) is a lesser entry, a retread of previous plotlines in a series that was running out of ideas...

They are wrong!

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MaxBenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 5h

Dumping a bagful of fallen leaves into the CoinStar machine in exchange for a single hour of sunlight.

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your friend natey @vrunt.social · 1d

this is how i first landed on my grand theory 'people will do anything for points'

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your friend natey @vrunt.social · 1d

things that would earn you Man Points:
- sludging the lawn
- running over and banging on his trash can
- hitting his shed roof with a tennis ball
- playing on the fence after he said it was dangerous
- building / reinforcing the sprawling fort we built in order to monitor The Man more closely

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your friend natey @vrunt.social · 1d

there was this guy who lived on the other side of a fence behind my best friend's house. we called him "The Man" and us neighborhood kids used to soak pinecones in buckets of water and then dump the slurry into his yard in order to earn "Man Points"

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bundgaardf.bsky.social @bundgaardf.bsky.social · 1d

I am living for the sumo wrestlers having fun playing tourists while preparing for the sumo tournament in London

Sumo wrestlers having fun posing with Stonehenge

Sumo wrestlers posing like The Beatles on Abbey Road

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 15h

Every ai video sucks because they’re never more than their prompts, you’re like ‘yeah that’s a video of a dinosaur eating chips whilst skateboarding,” but like that’s it - you could just post your prompt and it’d be the same. But every real piece of film contains MORE than just its script

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MaxBenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 14h

Give! Lt.! Columbo! A! Cane! Sword

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MaxBenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 14h

The Tale of Columbo
The New Tale of Columbo
Columbo On the Road
Columbo the Fugitive
Columbo's Flashing Sword
Fight, Columbo, Fight
Columbo and the Chess Expert
Columbo's Vengeance
Columbo Meets Yojimbo

MaxBenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 14h

Criterion has all of the original run of films and I've been watching them one a week on Sunday nights. In some ways a Columbo-like figure, shabby, sometimes bashful and bumbling, underestimated to your utter ruin.

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MaxBenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 14h

Criterion has all of the original run of films and I've been watching them one a week on Sunday nights. In some ways a Columbo-like figure, shabby, sometimes bashful and bumbling, underestimated to your utter ruin.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 15h

Cheering this on while also fully admitting my version of this is the first six words. But that’s a me problem, unrelated to my personal politics.

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16h

i do not want to "work from anywhere". i want to work in my dedicated work environment with all my dedicated work assisting tools. i do not want to send an email from the coffee shop or the park. i want to do coffee shop or park related tasks when i'm in the coffee shop or park

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MaxBenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 14h

Zatoichi, although his help often starts with or ends in tragedy.

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 15h

Behind the gate.

The gated entrance to a 1920's vintage Chicago apartment building.

A view of the mosaic tile floor and vintage doorway seen thru a painted vintage iron grill.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

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toadescope 👻 @toadescope.bsky.social · 1d

Can you believe this guy

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 1d

If you’ve ever asked yourself “why haven’t the Dead Milkmen covered Brian Eno’s art glam classic ‘Baby’s On Fire’ yet?” have I got news for you, brother. thedeadmilkmen1.bandcamp.com/album/janito...

Janitor / Baby's on Fire, by The Dead Milkmen

2 track album

thedeadmilkmen1.bandcamp.com

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 1d

Something for everyone!

K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 1d

a mpls music account posted this from October 1994; I'm *still* mad that I couldn't make that Sugar show because of a physics test

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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