It's like if you gave John Wilson a bunch of speed and LSD. I'll probably think about this at least once a day for the next year or so. Basically a new type of artistic medium and exists on yet another new axis in the kayfabe n-dimensional spectrum. The parts of this that I can verify as being real science makes me think probably all of it is real. A rare modern-day master of Joycean modernist maximalism, both relishing in…
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The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie 1981
Very strange entry into the Looney Tunes movie canon which I guess we're watching all of. It's broken into three parts that each have a new framing story to connect and justify some classic cartoons. The first two feel sort of awkwardly forced and don't have much comedy of their own, whereas the last one - an Oscars parody - has a lot of charm but doesn't even bother to try to connect the cartoons together. Just very strange choices all around. And the actual selection of cartoons feels weaker too, more abridged, fewer classics.
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The Substance 2024
Liked the premise, was instantly hooked in with the nightmare/cartoon medical infomercial vibe. Nothing like getting a set of rules and knowing you'll get to see all the awful things that happen when she doesn't follow them. The setting was great too, everything a bit hyperreal, reminded me of Barbie or Poor Things a little. I loved especially the super closeups of houseflies or shrimp heads, nice saturation of the grotesque.
What kinda lost me was the tone. Sometimes it…
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Goodbye to Language 2014
the introduction for this concluded with a quote from Stan Brakage that I really enjoyed, this one: www.goodreads.com/quotes/153251-imagine-an-eye-unruled-by-man-made-laws-of-perspective-an
and i was really excited because for a while i was really occupied by the idea of seeing "past the world of meaning", which is actually just a very thin veneer of recognizing and labelling and knowing that we stretch on top of "the physical world", and when we can perceive the physical world directly, it's actually mindboggling: the hugeness of buildings,…
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