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Moss Elixir

@sorryforlaughing.bsky.social

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She/her. Interests: art films, cult films, vintage television, video art, late night radio, backlisted books, dharma bums, suburban anomie, field recordings, found footage, lost futures, words, sounds, you.

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 34m

What IS cotton? We just don’t know.

Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 1h

Still so fucking salty about Bernie’s campaign TEN YEARS AGO that the Morton’s girl has run out, get over it

Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 1h

You’re right though

Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 1h

When she rightly said after her release that she wasn’t the main story here so many people just couldn’t go “well then clearly nothing much happened to her or the others” fast enough

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Happy to block anyone whose contribution in this moment is to immediately police the language people are using to describe fed invasions of their cities. People are going to be imprecise. They are experiencing immense trauma. If you haven't had a gun pointed at you recently, maybe sit this one out

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 1h

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 2h

There should be an ominously lit one-shot scene of his face late at night listening to it uninterrupted start to finish

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 2h

Books barrel-aged like fine wines? Excellent

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 2h

I wouldn’t mind a new book that had that old-decaying-book vanilla smell though

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 2h

Bob rolling into the slowest dirgiest power-pop-yet-funereal versions ever of “You Are the Reflection of the Moon on the Water” & “2541”

Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 3h

Even though I knew they were still using it incessantly among themselves yes, it was actually better in that very brief moment when the R-word was publicly unacceptable, & BTW never forgiving the parts of the “dirtbag left” that helped re-normalize that either

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 3h

I didn’t realize these were actually really good films until Criterion did that Hartley retrospective, I should get a “sorry I was an idiot” coupon or something

Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 3h

I missed moraines back in Aaaaaaaafrica

Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 3h

Condolences about your dad. ❤️ Also I am still mad at myself I didn’t get the “Ned Rifle trilogy” box set when I had a chance & now it’s out of print

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 3h

I do know who I want to win because his candidacy is making Republicans shit their lacy drawers even out here, even when I point out he can never run for president, but that’s not the same as forgetting I don’t live there

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 3h

You don’t understand, the only alternative is to actually accept & work within a new economic & geopolitical paradigm & then where would we be

Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 3h

This is what they took from us (sending them a thank-you card)

Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 3h

A true lost Norman Rockwell painting (in his “The Problem We All Live With” vein) was when I was getting my car serviced while the 2017 inauguration was on their TV, a circle of old white guys around the screen with faces shining in ecstasy while every female/Black customer was sullenly turned away

Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 4h

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 4h

Oh no, I agree with that & we’ve had a lot of the same phenomenon around here, the Democrats Who Talk About Nothing But “Fiscal Restraint”

Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 4h

After an ill-fated experiment with cable news on the service waiting room TV auto dealer switched to This Old House episodes thank God, I know what your politics are as an auto dealer but your elderly male customers especially are far too excitable for cable news so what the hell were you thinking.

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 4h

So many people (& I know more than a few) vote for anyone with an R after their name automatically because that’s “what we always do” & then are shocked & angry about how they just fucked themselves over YET AGAIN but then they do it YET AGAIN, taking away the brand name would do a world of good

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 4h

Also, re this being Hartley’s last film, I totally understand why he doesn’t want to work under these conditions (especially after reading his interviews on it all) but another great indie filmmaker deciding like John Sayles just to write books from now on, a real culture would fund their work

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 4h

SAME & SAME, really a bitter pill to swallow

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 4h

I’m just as happy to see him & Robert John Burke together again, getting the Simple Men gang back together

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