ive loved the backrooms in different eras art but i think it misses a big part of the movie (unintentional or not) that the sub/exurban sludge of the backrooms is a specifically modern manifestation of our poor relationship to liminality, otherhood, & the unknown. or something.
Michael York went to my secondary school, and despite being in one of my favourite musical movies of all time, when I tell people about that I still say โthe guy who plays Basil Exposition from Austin Powersโ instead, because heโs simply that good
Large group travel: IF WE DONT LEAVE THE HOSTEL BY 10:00 IM LIGHTING MYSELF ON FIRE AHHHHH
Small group travel: guys check out my beer mustache aha :)
Solo travel: I am the wretched refuse of the earth, cursed forever to wander with the mark of Cain blazing on my forehead
damn, returning to britain after a weekend w my beautiful girlfriend in paris, where random french lesbians complimented us and a chic older woman told me i was beautiful, really sucks, actually
Made two friends in a lesbian bar in Paris, across a language gap, and also I pulled a tarot card for one who was considering dumping her toxic boyfriend of one month, and it was the tower lmao
There are many things about 67 that I could be reactionary or curmudgeonly about, but im realising it may be the first ever humanity-wide in-joke. An in-joke with no outgroup, perfectly absurd
@agnstpollution I have a bad case of list brain which Iโve always chalked down to the human instinct to order and make meaning, but I think it is for sure worth resisting where and when you can
A quick study at work has given scientific, repeatable results on the order of High School Musical films from best to worst, and Iโm pretty confident that further and broader inquiry will yield the same, correct, answer
@hausofdecline I love how you perfectly and accurately captured exactly how this kind of man on this godforsaken island speaks, and every other comment is re-doing the punchline to make it Dick Van Dyke having a stroke
Real poets use quasi-mystical totally unfalsifiable beliefs alloyed with deep study of the histories of various poetries & poetic lineages. Free yourselves from trauma mediocrity NOW
Every ceo of a train company is this god damn country is a god damn leech, may their time in this life and the next be barren and joyless, and instead filled with the inconvenience and suffering of each individual person they have immiserated added together and multiplied tenfold