RodneyWelch

Freelance writer. Blocked by @thedavidcrosby for what I feel certain was a misunderstanding — but hey, who the hell cares?

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@TheRichFromCali Including the dead assassin kid and the dead fireman? Part of the plan too?

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@emilynussbaum I did, sometime in the fall of 1977, while taking an American Novel survey course. The book was Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, and it was so obnoxiously resistant to my 19-year-old grasp that I windmilled it across the room. We eventually made up. We’re buds now.

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@KarinaLongworth “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

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@MagnitudeReview @Criterion Personally, new 4K UHD selections would have to have really great new supplements for me to replace ANY of my Criterion Blu Rays.

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@RebeccaLNeely @abc_columbia So it’s not just me…

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@Theaprilblake I assume that’s what everyone does.

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Since childhood, I’ve had an affinity for John Schlesinger’s 1967 Far From the Madding Crowd. Saw it tonight and it proved kind of eh. A solid, dutiful take on a B+ Hardy novel. His next two films, Midnight Cowboy and Sunday Bloody Sunday, would be Schlesinger’s hallmarks.

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@melnickjeffrey1 https://t.co/5aBLi4ht6S. My favorite song, suitable for all occasions: driving, dining, thinking, balancing your budget, reading the news, rearranging the fruit bowl, playing volleyball or just doing the hawg. The WAP-WAP-WAP at2:12 ALWAYS makes life worth living.

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@Karaszewski PS What did Tennessee think?

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@Karaszewski I assume Voight played Stanley and Earl Holliman played Mitch. I’m thinking they should have switched parts.

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This was my intro to Tom Verlaine — a 1977 Elektra promo LP called Year of the Ear, a dumb concept where the new acts were booked as cars on the gatefold. (There was also “The Waits,” as in Tom) The song was “Marquee Moon” — I’d never heard anything like it and still haven’t.

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@Tyler8985 I’ve lived in SC 46 years and I never heard the name Murdaugh before the boat crash either. I suspect the family’s “prominence” is of the limited and narrow type. By contrast, I and many others have been aware of Harpootlian forever. He’s way more famous than his client.

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@tnyfrontrow I’ve never warmed to Zabridkie Point. Antonioni seemed out of his depth. I’d keep the other four in your top five and add Le Amiche. I saw it again recently and was deeply impressed. It very much prefigured L’Avventura in the way fashion evoked spiritual malaise.

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@paranoiacs The Mekons will get you through times of no money better than money will get you though times of no Mekons.

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@acroce66 Mediocre adventure yarn. 5

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@malcolmgaskill I read the ebook (does that count?) last week - loved it and raved about it ridiculously on Facebook. I very much appreciated both your narrative skill and your sympathetic approach toward people struggling to live in a very unforgiving time.

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@sbliss89 I still kind of wish he’d punch Harry in the face and “No, asshole, it’s totally NOT OKAY for you to come home and announce you’ve married this Ruth Dakin ho and taken a job with her rich dad. Tough shit. You’re quitting. I’m gonna go travel the world and be a famous architect.”

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@Glenn__Kenny Biggest outright laugh in the entire series.

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@fitsnews I don’t believe people who support the Orange Man have swastikas tattooed on their arms. But I do believe people who have swastikas tattooed on their arms people support the Orange Man.

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Reading #Tarantino is pure #film geek fun. I agree with him on much, but not on Stallone’s Paradise Alley. Just watched it, and it’s a lot of corny ham-handed tomfoolery. A semi-comedy that tells you it’s “funny”because of the forced laughter of the actors (mainly Stallone)