My local art house has been failing me all year. My attendance there has been at a twenty five year low this year. I'm unhappy with this.

Grumble grumble.

Can we dispose of the idea that Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig are indie at this point? They're making movies with George Clooney and Adam Sandler fer fucksake. Oh my god, is Jay Kelly trite. I hated it.

Apparently. Three mentions!

I haven't seen One Battle After Another, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, It Was Just an Accident, & any of the stuff that critics see on screeners this time of the year. There are multiple reason I've been out of theaters for these, most of them revolving around my work schedule. Stupid day job.

I remember it like it was yesterday. The Germans wore gray. You wore blue.

Parchment kills too many cute animals. There's a reason college degrees are called sheepskins. Papyrus, though--there's a retro medium. But, yeah. Do that thing longhand. Do it *in CURSIVE*.

Hah! My estrogenesis was eighteen years ago yesterday. It can vote now.

That is one of the most beautiful bad movies I've ever seen. Geoffrey Unsworth was a mighty god. "The Penis is bad! The Gun is good!"

That's enough for now. What are you listening to?

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I'm getting old enough to think about my own mortality. This song is going to be on the playlist at my funeral. Sorry Mick and Keith, I like this version better for the occasion.

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this is a decade old now, too. That doesn't seem right.

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I still can't believe that the bluegrass albums Dolly Parton cut at the turn of the Millennium couldn't find an audience. Some of the best music of her career.

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Curtis Mayfield was absolutely prophetic. This song is still scathing.

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Also still vital. The first clown prince of rock and roll, whose career was destroyed by Christian conservative white people who didn't want their precious little babies listening to this kind of filth.

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It hurts my brain that Lemonade was almost a decade ago. Who knows where the time goes? Still vital and bleeding.

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Judas and the Black Messiah had a banging soundtrack too. This sounds like my favorite period for soul music.

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Without commenting on the film itself, the soundtrack to Birds of Prey was a freaking banger.

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