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niktemadur ,

Ah yes, that ol’ Disneyland Main Street trick, forced perspective.

niktemadur ,

This also means more money into Ukraine’s economy. So it’s a win-win. When the only loser is mindless, needless misery, who gives a fuck about the loser, russia doesn’t exist anymore except as an overflowing waterless toilet.

niktemadur ,

Looks like Liev Schreiber’s weird nerdy uncle, to my untrained eyes.

niktemadur , (edited )

a multi-character parallel storytelling style that is only ever celebrated amongst industry snobs

I’m going to agree with caveats here, because some directors who are actual artists do it for the sake of the film and the challenge of it, as opposed to what I’ll refer to as “industry types”, who do it for the prizes. And some crazy bastards manage to pull it off. Three names come to mind - Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Soderbergh.

I’ve never seen “Crash” and never wanted to, from what I’ve read, the bland yet heavy-handed results onscreen, plus the lazy reflexive accolades, made me view the whole thing with a cynical eye, like you.

In fact, Robert Altman had a thing or two to say about those “industry types”, in his triumphant early-90s comeback film “The Player”.
Also, do yourself a favor and watch Altman’s “Short Cuts”, to see parallel storytelling at its’ best.

niktemadur ,

Altman came in throwing punches with the noisy background and chaotic dialogue wafting every which way, right from the outset, on MASH and McCabe & Mrs Miller, which is why it’s a good idea to watch his films with English subtitles turned on.

I don’t remember the cacophony being as intense in some of his other early works, like Brewster McCloud, California Split and The Long Goodbye.
But in Nashville, it’s most certainly there, front and center and in your face.

niktemadur , (edited )

My recommendations to you are as follows:

My favorite Altman film overall probably might have to be The Long Goodbye. Check out how the camera is always moving, if even slightly; there are no static shots. Midway through the movie, the great Sterling Hayden steals the show. And keep an eye out for a very, very young Ahnold Schwarzenegger in a bit role as literal and figurative muscle for the batshit insane bad guy.

Brewster McCloud is a bonkers twisted fantasy that caught me by surprise by how much I enjoyed it, it’s about a kid who:

  1. Lives in the Astrodome in secret, in a forgotten construction nook, a big one, between walls and floors.
  2. Wants to be able to fly.
  3. Is being encouraged by an older woman, who might actually already know how to fly.

Also, there are people being killed all over town, and it might have something to do with all this.

niktemadur ,

The moment I was looking and thinking about Ralph, the wifi lost connection to the internet.
Coincidence? Or was it Ralph? 3spooky5me, Ralphie ol’ boy!

niktemadur ,

Someday far, far into the deep future, Ralph may surface again as a Boltzmann Brain.

niktemadur ,

A lot of thought and effort - and cackles of mad laughter - went into making this… thing.

This is the sort of thing that oozes out of the mind during fevered dreams, like with George Miller and “Mad Max: Fury Road”.

niktemadur ,

The Arden Weenus Crusade For Cadmium Hour, Wednesdays at 3:00am on KGFJ 1230-AM Radio Los Angeles

Now that’s the original infomercials medium and time slot right there.

As a kid back in the seventies, I remember adults listening to AM radio shows that mentioned the Mayo Clinic a whole lot. But I seem to remember that was a bunch of hours and every night, like maybe they owned the radio station and sprinkled in music and variety entertainment amid constant name-dropping of the Mayo Clinic.

niktemadur ,

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE…

niktemadur ,

I also have a 16-year old, he’s quite frail right now. Just a little while ago I walked up to him lying in his favorite cushion at the moment, put my arms around him and told him just how important he is around here. He is our elder statesman.

niktemadur ,

Did you know that if you say “Michael Caine” in Michael Caine’s voice and accent it sounds just like a British “my cocaine”?

niktemadur ,

With this one trick.
Hunter gatherers hate it.
Number 3 will SHOCK you!

niktemadur ,

Well… since you put it that way, it is quite staggeringly improbable, isn’t it?

“Through these terse, inter-connected runes, an invisible magic flows. You cannot change the rune, as then the spell will be broken.”
“Where does the magic come from, mommy?”
“From the highest point in the invisible topology of this magic, Billy: the Hoover Dam/Niagara Falls”.

niktemadur ,

Obama: bans microplastic beads

orange parasite: lifts ban on asbestos

Idiots: bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe

niktemadur ,

So THIS is what ecstatic rapture looks like!

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...

niktemadur ,

The entire instance seems to be engaged in an opinion shaping campaign

That’s too subtle a statement. It is a willful, bad-faith, full-on attack on objective reality via the rewriting of historical facts, redaction of massive volumes of information and constant aggressive, knee-jerk silencing of voices.

As such, it can also be described as a malicious assault on the mental health of individuals and society as a whole. Their actions a clear example of the type of repressive, miserable society they would have us live in, if given the chance by hook or by crook.

niktemadur ,

If you ask her - “The Beatles or The Stones?”, she’s liable to go for The Kinks instead.

niktemadur ,

So simple it’s mind-blowing, whoever came up with the way to represent it visually like this deserves a round of applause and a nice plaque in college campus gardens everywhere.

niktemadur ,

I’ve seen Shadows, Faces and The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie.
The man nearly single-handedly invented independent highbrow cinema in the United States, a gritty and bare urban realism that is as artistically important as the French Nouvelle Vague.

To put it in an oversimplified way, without Cassavettes there is no Scorsese as we know him.

niktemadur ,

Imagine not grasping the concept of using averages to simplify visual information.

niktemadur ,

…then they use the word “flavor” both for quark color and for neutrino mass.

niktemadur ,

Doubtful, if it was, the sign would go:

Take Any Item To Checkout Or Ask An Associate For Assistance, Eh?

niktemadur ,

Insane People Flinstones

niktemadur ,

The ol’ switcheroo, eh?
Like some sort of meme narrative/expectation parkour!

niktemadur , (edited )

Evolution came up with sexual reproduction as a mechanism to keep the gene pool varied and varying. In this sense the female and male sexual organs constitute one single reproductive apparatus.

Another ingenious mechanism is the bee/flower or fly/flower or bat/flower, duos of completely separate species in beautiful, poetic symbiosis. Birds with seeds is another one.
The bees (or flies or bats) reproduce on their own, but the flower has turned those species into part of its’ own reproductive organs, in a way.

niktemadur ,

Who gives a fuck? Let him rant into the void, we all know everything that comes out of that parasite is ignorant, toxic hot air that feeds on the attention.
Lock that thing up.

niktemadur ,

LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP…!

niktemadur ,

Vulgarity always goes hand-in-hand with irrational, self-defeating behavior. It’s knee-jerk reaction from one minute to the next, hollow, distracted and panicky.

niktemadur ,

That’s it. Checkmate, atheists, pack it up and go home, you’ve just been one-upped forever and ever by… this one McDonald’s-eatin’ megachurch-attendin’ rando from Arkansas.

niktemadur ,

Biblecore

niktemadur ,

There should be a Ticonderoga in Pencilvania.

niktemadur ,

One is a convicted felon, 34 times over, and there is more on the way. The other has never been suspected of any criminal act.

tHeY’rE tHE sAmE! bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe! LoL aMiRiTe

So many idiots can’t figure out who’s really rigging the game against them, even when it’s staring them in the face, blasting them with racist and fascist language and actions, with the breath of chronic bad health habits and the smell of soiled diaper.

niktemadur ,

Paleopride!

niktemadur ,

Actually, that’s pretty much scratching the belly of an expert answer, you gotta go a few layers into Quantum Chromodynamics to know that tidbit about the colors and anti-colors of gluons.

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niktemadur ,

Does this sound like the prototypical clickbait headline title, or what do you say?

niktemadur ,

Truck drivin’, bible-thumpin’, gun totin’ knuckledragger in Texas:
“I ain’t gonna buy Lockeed Martin products, I’m gonna boycott them! Make 'murica grate agin!”
Proceeds to angrily keep on NOT buying surface-to-air missiles.

niktemadur , (edited )

Hey, that’s me as an 11-or-12-year old, I used to jog around the block in the old central section of town at night, my parents didn’t want me straying, there was an old park nearby with shady characters lurking there at night, and the old red light bar district was about three blocks away in the other direction.

niktemadur ,

OP is the probability cloud around the nucleus. Don’t poke him or you’ll collapse his wave function.

niktemadur ,

For some reason, I’m finding this post quite soothing.

niktemadur ,

Fittingly symbolic, as this is the first time I’ve ever heard of North Korea ever exporting anything made there.

niktemadur ,

The only abnormal thing I see here are these willfully ignorant knuckle-dragging shitkickers.

If anybody needs conversion therapy/deprogramming, it’s these creatures infected with an anti-science, anti-reason, anti-empathy mental virus, who fancy themselves at the very epicenter of god’s creation, but from where I’m standing, they are very much in a desolate joyless godless corner to be avoided like the plague.

niktemadur ,

Imagine Edison trying to patent the “hello” greeting to get royalties every time someone answered the phone.
Then the incel fanbois defending Edison, insisting he invented the term 'hello".

niktemadur ,

Greetings and salutations, pilgrim.

niktemadur ,

My mother in law can do it, she’ll walk into a room, sniff disagreeably and say - “Huele a hormiga.”

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