Sometimes I just sit around and my eyes just kinda get watery, cos I be like, “I ain’t amount to nothing.” I ain’t got nothing. I can’t even go out there and get a job making $7 an hour. I’ll be sitting there telling myself, “you ain’t going to get no better.”
Something satisfyingly simple about an inflated sphere, its relationship with your body—that caress of the palm, that kiss of the foot. Even a racquet quivers. "The erotic," Audre Lorde…
With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable.
This film outlines the archetype of the White Bourgeois Activist.
WBAs never have to worry about anything substantial that couldn't be dealt with within the family. Then they smell that tasty morsel of Struggle™. Somewhere in the world, a burden is to be bestowed. They barge into "the cause", starry-eyed and pompous, bursting with an oh-so quirky…
the one-shots are very unobtrusive tbf. rarely flashy. in place of that sin tho, another—the one-shots…become the substructure? this massive object? so massive, in fact, you can feel its gravity warping the reality and, more importantly, the quality of this story. in animation, it’s the clunky, flashed, intermediate frames that smooth the motion of subjects in the key frames. what happens then, this substructure asks, when it’s all key frames? you get a lot of proselytising, i guess. characters you’re…
For a long moment he looked up at them with peaceful and unfathomable and unbearable eyes … pent black blood seemed to rush like a released breath. It seemed to rush out of his pale body like the rush of sparks from a rising rocket; upon that black blast the man seemed to rise soaring into their memories forever and ever. They are not to lose it, in whatever peaceful valleys, beside whatever placid and reassuring streams of old age,…
Ey look listen man, I love the Chris Nolan iterations of Batman. We all do. He’s a genius, utilising Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’ aesthetic to reimagine the caped crusader in a neorealistic context, asking in the most literal sense, “how would this person be perceived in a real city, in real life, by a society who took him seriously?” But Nolan was too successful. He made him so realistic, we spent a decade bringing this IP into our world with our…
