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Christianne Benedict
@krelllabs.bsky.social
Cartoonist, Film Writer, Malcontent. She/her if you please.

http://krelllabs.blogspot.com
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.
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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.
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Apparently. Three mentions!
December 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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.
December 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I remember it like it was yesterday. The Germans wore gray. You wore blue.
December 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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*.
December 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Hah! My estrogenesis was eighteen years ago yesterday. It can vote now.
December 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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!"
December 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
That's enough for now. What are you listening to?

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Aretha Franklin - A Change Is Gonna Come
YouTube video by jackemlyn062
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December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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Townes Van Zandt - Dead Flowers (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Townes Van Zandt
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December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
this is a decade old now, too. That doesn't seem right.

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Sia - Chandelier (Official Video)
YouTube video by SiaVEVO
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December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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Silver Dagger
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Curtis Mayfield was absolutely prophetic. This song is still scathing.

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[Don't Worry] If There Is a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go
YouTube video by Curtis Mayfield - Topic
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December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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Wynonie Harris - Keep On Churnin' (Til The Butter Come)
YouTube video by burnttoastjukebox
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December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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Beyoncé ft Jack White - Don't Hurt Yourself ( Official Music Video ) Pre Promo
YouTube video by Soul Central TV
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December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Judas and the Black Messiah had a banging soundtrack too. This sounds like my favorite period for soul music.

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H.E.R. - Fight For You (From the Original Motion Picture "Judas and the Black Messiah" (Of...
YouTube video by HERMusicVEVO
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December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Without commenting on the film itself, the soundtrack to Birds of Prey was a freaking banger.

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Joke's On You
YouTube video by Charlotte Lawrence - Topic
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December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM