toastycakes

toastycakes

A real cinderella story.
More kittens, please.

Favorite films

  • Repo Man
  • Clueless
  • Nowhere
  • Kids

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  • Salaryman

  • Raise Your Voice

    ★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★★

  • Sleep with Me

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  • Salaryman

    Salaryman

    I remember first seeing video channels specifically to play for pets when their doting owners weren’t home… over saturated, super saccharine, high fps nausea-inducing “content” for sad lonely pets to stare at and feel some attachment, lobotomizing and foreign to any non-doggo evolved species.

    I suspect this is the appeal of Apple+ Severence. It’s content precisely designed to appeal to medicated gorlbusses and boybossez in a trance of SSRIs mixed with an innate urge to increase shareholder value. Is it a tv…

  • Raise Your Voice

    Raise Your Voice

    ★★★

    Crazy that a year after playing Isabella in Lizzie McGuire, Hilary did a true Betty & Veronica with Kat Denning… I said this to Kat at the 2 Broke Girls wrap party and she asked my friend if she should call security.

    Also crazy that a sub-mid super saccharine broad as the side of a barn COA from the 2000s is an embarrassment of riches of L.A. vibes compared to anything made in the past 15 years. It’s true that in…

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  • X

    X

    ½

    In 2008, every cute girl in L.A. had a boyfriend in a shitty MySpace band, and every one of them would gush, “omg they’re sooo fucking mindblowing! They’re like— The Beatles… mixed with Radiohead! FOR REAL!”

    But for real for real, they were all the same shitty MySpace band from Orange County, desperately trying to sound like The Beatles and Radiohead at the same time because that’s what they thought good sounded like.

    So the first time someone told me,…

  • Moments Like This Never Last

    Moments Like This Never Last

    ★★

    “I hate all this attention,” he said to the reality tv camera that followed him with a spotlight, and in the pages of the commissioned New Yorker article, that had the temerity to point out that he was in fact a rich kid playing punk.

    There’s nothing I love more than hyper wealthy poseur brats who walk a right rope above a golden net and pretend it’s a lion’s den down below… say their affluence, lineage, privilege is all incidental,…