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Abe Goldfarb

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Dirtbag artist and humorless leftist scold. Pronouns: he/him/your lusciousness. Watch my movie, FIRST TIME CALLER!! https://www.amazon.com/First-Time-Caller-Abe-Goldfarb/dp/B0CJ5P5QKR

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 11d

Holy shit you guys it’s the spookiest month. You should watch my eerie little science fiction movie that the New York Times and Mike Flanagan thought was good as hell.

FIRST TIME CALLER is on Tubi and Prime Video!

A poster for FIRST TIME CALLER featuring me looking through a moonlit window and a quote from the New York Times:

"A neat concept neatly executed. Brynn and Goldfarb have done an exemplary job making a dynamic film."

A poster for FIRST TIME CALLER featuring me in headphones at a mic, smirking, and a quote from Mike Flanagan:

"Very Impressive, Amazingly Kinetic, Genre-Bending, An Excellent Indie Thriller."

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 15h

"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 6h

I loved that it basically refuted the entire current application of AI (surveillance and forgery) for something literally utopian (a tree!).

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 7h

It’s real good. Great action, current concerns, terrific new wrinkles in the aesthetic. I was startled how much I liked it actually.

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 7h

I understand that this is an invitation to reply to me with critiques about the movies of TRON. Please do not take the invitation. I just like my zoomy little neon computer buddies.

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 7h

Listen, I’d make some comments about TRON: ARES but what the fuck am I gonna say except that I love my little computer world and all the computational doings therein? You make a TRON movie, I’m 99% for sure going to love it.

(Also all them has had something provocative&interesting behind the flash)

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 7h

Back in the day I yammered a lot about having problems with the writing, now I just ease happily into the craft and the world of it. It might be Shyamalan’s most beautiful directing, which is saying a lot.

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 10h

RIP D’Angelo. This absolutely sucks. Too fucking young. Just an insanely great artist on every level.

Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 15h

the most predictable, infuriating shit that could have happened

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 18h

Israel kills seven Palestinians in violation of Gaza ceasefire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-seven-palestinians-violation-gaza-ceasefire

Israel kills seven Palestinians in violation of Gaza ceasefire

<article data-history-node-id="430185" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-seven-palestinians-violation-gaza-ceasefire" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-seven-palestinians-violation-gaza-ceasefire" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel kills seven Palestinians in violation of Gaza ceasefire</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> forces killed at least seven <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a> in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in violation of the ceasefire agreement signed last week.</p> <p>According to local health officials, six people were killed in Gaza City and one in Khan Younis.</p> <p>In Gaza City’s eastern Shujaiya neighbourhood, at least five people were killed in an aerial attack while inspecting their homes, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence.</p> <p>Separately, a drone strike in the town of al-Fukhari, east of Khan Younis, killed one person.</p> <p>These attacks constitute a breach of the ceasefire agreement that took effect on Friday, which explicitly <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-text-agreement-signed-israel-and-hamas-end-war-gaza" target="_blank">stated</a> that “all military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardment and targeting operations, will be suspended”.</p> <p>You can read more <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-violates-ceasefire-terms-shelling-several-areas-gaza">here</a>.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 16h

I think it’s mostly because she’s a lying dumbass with no skills beyond sweet-talking venture capital.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 18h

His art felt like a dream of the movies. One of the all timers. RIP.

io9 @io9dotcom.bsky.social · 19h

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

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blights u @bitesu.kawaii.social · 7d

its shoe beans tuesday

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Unironically Lucky Luciano, who helped win World War 2 with the power of crime

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Dec 16

Eyeballing Jack Reacher right now. Big guy, obviously, but I don't think he sees me coming. As a henchman, this is the sort of moment that makes or breaks your career. I think I should go for it.

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MadAlien Earth @fauxedo.bsky.social · 2d

John Carpenter made some of the greatest movies of all time and then retired to make music with his son and play video games. It’s possible he has lived the greatest life in human history.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 2d

Might be a bit too brain-fried to really get into it. But my Letterboxd is where I (infrequently) write essays on my all-timers. boxd.it/52ta5

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Abe uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 34 films watched. Favorites: The Third Man (1949), Duck Soup (1933), Throw Down (2004), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). Bio: I act in so...

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 2d

Delayed flights do terrible things to a man

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 2d

energy vampire in the open relationship, call that a polycula

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 2d

put movie theaters in airports, do it you cowards

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 2d

“Help me, my life is hell”

Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 2d

just passed the neposet river and it’s like we GET it, the ocean is your dad

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 4d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 2d

when armond white retires, we will have lost a man with the strength of ten haters

Anderson's pop music hipsterism swaps past romantic associations for new cynicism:
"Soldier Boy," by the Shirelles, turns the S/M sex play between Perfidia and Lockjaw into civil rights irony; "Ready or Not," by the Delfonics, makes that same irony bewildering;
"Dirty Work" uses Steely Dan snark to portray Bob's cuckoldry; "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" tweaks our shared disillusionment particularly revolting in the Benecio Del Toro subplot that exalts the harboring of illegal aliens. Worst of all, Anderson uses Tom Petty's
"American Girl" to ridicule the results of what
Obama called "America's original sin."

It's a macabre coincidence that One Battle After Another opens so soon after the assassination of peaceable conservative debater Charlie Kirk. The film undeniably romanticizes political assassination. When Perfidia seduces Lockjaw, she taunts him with "Revolutionary violence is the only way!" Anderson intentionally provokes the bloodlust of his woke confreres (and Gen Z viewers who know nothing about the Sixties) by celebrating the insipid, heretical, and violent activities of the liberal past and present. Anderson's title lacks Pynchon's pith but daydreams a culture of never-ending political obstruction and pandemonium. It is the year's most irresponsible movie.

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 2d

sure AI is driving up the cost of living without any compensatory benefit, but at least it sucks and is making everything shittier

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 2d

If it was a multi-year grind getting people to see the post 10/7 offensive as a genocide, imagine how difficult it will be to get them to truly understand what’s been happening all this time.