Unashamedly left-leaning ailurophile, twitterateur, atheist, film buff, bibliophile, republican, mischief-maker & general nuisance.
Straya
Joined December 2013
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Poets on the loose!
Police letting minds roam free!
Watch out!
Intelligences might get bitten!
~Victor Hugo (ed DW) teapaw.org/slsandpet/status/72052…
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Celebrating composer Ennio Morricone, #BOTD. It would be nearly impossible for me to choose a single favorite from his enormous catalog of film music — "Cinema Paradiso", "The Mission", "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", and endless other gems. But the marriage of Claudia Cardinale's beauty with the haunting "Jill's Theme" from "Once Upon a Time" in the West is simply ethereal simply ethereal — a moment of cinematic magic that never loses its spell.
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BREAKING: The 11 House Democrats who missed the vote that killed Thomas Massie's Hegseth impeachment resolution have all received significant pro-Israel AIPAC money in Congress.
Just seven of them voting against the referral motion would have flipped the 211-204 result.
Haley Stevens (MI): $15.9M
Laura Gillen (NY): $551K
Marilyn Strickland (WA): $371K
Steven Horsford (NV): $214K
Nancy Pelosi (CA): $166K
Julia Brownley (CA): $134K
Brittany Pettersen (CO): $125K
Lou Correa (CA): $80K
Frederica Wilson (FL): $39K
Melanie Stansbury (NM): $28K
Jonathan Jackson (IL): $21K
Haley Stevens is the highest AIPAC recipient in Congress.
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Nicolas Winding Refn on how he uses violence in Drive (2011):
“Like sex. It’s all about the build-up. Violence is a mechanical device, it has no function if you’re not emotionally engaged in it. And so, the more you are into the love story between them, the more the violence will pay off.
And because the love story is so pure, the violence needs to be really explicit to balance it.”
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The most devastating split-second in Welles’s Chimes at Midnight: "I know thee not, old man!"
As Henry V delivers the blow, Falstaff wears a fleeting, prideful look. It's a surrogate father briefly taking credit for the king he forged. Then the realization. He’s entirely ruined
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Me reading Hamlet's "To Be Or Not To Be" speech in a reconstruction of early 17th century English pronunciation
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Jamie Lee Curtis reveals the only career advice she ever received from Tony Curtis was to never settle for less than a 50
"Never let them shoot you with anything less than a 50."
"And remember that every contract you sign has the words 'in perpetuity'."
"And in perpetuity means forever."
"When you're 20 or 19 or 17 or 18, forever, you're trying to get to 25."
"The idea that this is all going to last forever is just not in your mind. You're begging for any job you could get."
"Remember whatever you do is going to, you've signed a contract that says 'in perpetuity,' which is forever."
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"The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always."
William Faulkner
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The Debussy Film by Ken Russell. An impression of the music and life of the French composer Claude Debussy. 1965. A must see for fans of Russell. Oliver Reed, Vladek Sheybal and Annette Robertson are wonderful!
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For Immediate Release: KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS in 4K UHD.
Hear it straight from the source. Everything you need to know about the 4K UHD + Blu-ray Collector’s Edition as well as the Standard 4K UHD Edition.
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“I’m a real self-educated kind of guy. I read voraciously. Every book I ever bought, I have. I can’t throw it away. Some of them are in warehouses. I’ve got a library that I keep the ones I really really like. I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself—I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, ‘F**k, I can’t read two-thirds of these books.’ It overwhelms me with sadness.”
–David Bowie
Who cares what the US wants? It's what Ukraine wants (and needs) that matters.theguardian.com/world/2026/n…
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Censoring media is never a good thing, but I do think it'd be really funny if the "Rape of Christ" scene got removed from UK physical/streaming releases of The Devils restoration, bc one of the nuns face sits jesus at one point.
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Half a lifetime since I first read this and the way Céline writes about death and ageing hits so much harder now
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"Il n’y a pas de chats ordinaires. Il y a des chats malheureux, des chats obligés à la dissimulation, des chats méconnus, des chats qu’une inguérissable erreur humaine distribue à des mains indignes, des chats qui attendent, leur vie durant, une récompense qui ne viendra jamais : la compréhension et la pitié."
Colette 🐈
