the pentaverate is a joke mike myers started about secret societies from the movie "so i married an axe murderer" where his father describes a group running the world comprised of people like the queen of england and the colonel from kfc and they meet somewhere secret known as.... the meadows

so watching the show seeing it realized was alittle like taratino making kill bill after describing the fox force five in pulp fiction, mia wallace's tv pilot that didn't air with assassins who were basically bill's bishes....

i like when neil diamond plays like yay good music and comedy and then i'm like oh he put that billie eilish ringtone from a decade ago ... i dont like porn that's pre-selected and suggested for me... if she was the bad guy it would be better you could sell it as real and not some kid saying what shes told to say and style-reaped off another artist ... what would mainstream media do if porn was federally and morally legal? ....takes away from disney and pop stars who need that thinly-veiled lust money from society. i'm sick of the slop they sell us... they failed when they failed to get me off...

the clothes in stores.... we noticed... stop dressing us like obvious bumpkins ... these psycho old navy commercials like are people happy to be dressed like peasants?

oo i can't wait to get effed deep in one of those "i give up" dresses



the pentaverate is funny and pretty to watch haha the beyonce knowles jokes from austin powers and kanye west joke getting him back for standing next to mike myers on live tv saying "george bush doesn't care about black people" effing best contribution to society kanye west has given us if that genius could figure out activism instead of self-whatevering ... what would jesus do kanye west? not call himself jesus and say hes a genius and better than everybody else thats not how jesus did it... billie eilish has a personality in there somewhere don't worry girl we'll find it thats better fighting for my team than sell-out boobs that do no good i need tits with real attitude fighting for the good guys not bringing the world down .... play for the home team, the good guys are earth and ... if rich people go to mars dont come crawling back to us when we turned the manure they left behind into fertile soil and save this whole beautiful place... if the masses dont have values then we get family feud style answers the opinion of 100 people and those people are not 100 experts we human animals are given mass media irresponsibly... why control your fellow man for profit why not create beauty ....


p.s. i went to a britney spears concert in like 2000 i had to it was my friend sarah's party and not everyone got invited .... it was me sarah kelly trina nic and sarah's mom and little sister and we had fun like dancing by our seats but it was totally us being brainwashed they were repeating the same music parts over and over and sometimes its in my dreams like am i still at this britney spears y2k concert? .... "i'll be anticipating, this is our song they're playing...." over and over like .... what subliminal hoe messages were they telling us? was it to dance? i always dance ... what else oh mike myers the pentaverate the shrek jokes haha awesome because hey, it's his character haha he can use shrek whenever he wants, disney shmoes haha also was eddie murphy on snl when mike myers got there? that's cool they did shrek together

If you're into slow cinema or really formalist stuff and you've never seen it, Marguerite Duras' 1975 film INDIA SONG is now on the Criterion Channel. I'd read about it probably 20+ years ago, but had never had an opportunity to see it.

The major formal conceit is that all the dialogue is happening off screen, sometimes commenting on what is happening on screen, or just happened, or is about to happen. TBH, it took me ~20 minutes to get into it, but once I was on its wavelength it was hypnotic, especially the use of mirrors in the framing.

Pretty mind blowing that Delphine Seyrig was in both this and JEANNE DIELMAN in '75, two films both trying to structurally reinvent cinema, and both directed by women.

tallchris wrote: If you're into slow cinema or really formalist stuff and you've never seen it, Marguerite Duras' 1975 film INDIA SONG is now on the Criterion Channel. I'd read about it probably 20+ years ago, but had never had an opportunity to see it.

man.. I'd say a lot of my TV watching these days is turning to dumb shit after work, haha. Like a new season of Workin' Moms or something, except that's actually pretty decent for dumb shit, and the story line about the teenager trying to woo his love interest with free jazz chops cracked me up.

penningtron wrote: Thu May 12, 2022 11:18 am

tallchris wrote: If you're into slow cinema or really formalist stuff and you've never seen it, Marguerite Duras' 1975 film INDIA SONG is now on the Criterion Channel. I'd read about it probably 20+ years ago, but had never had an opportunity to see it.

man.. I'd say a lot of my TV watching these days is turning to dumb shit after work, haha. Like a new season of Workin' Moms or something, except that's actually pretty decent for dumb shit, and the story line about the teenager trying to woo his love interest with free jazz chops cracked me up.

After days of Covid isolation in my basement watching hours of TV it felt good to watch something a little challenging for a couple hours!

Tokyo Vice on HBO Max is pretty good.

Watching the new Kids in the Hall on Amazon Prime, it's been pretty great so far

BrendanK wrote: Sat May 14, 2022 3:30 pm Watching the new Kids in the Hall on Amazon Prime, it's been pretty great so far

Me too. From first episode, new useful phrase: "acoustically aggressive".

My Brilliant Friend on HBO. Not as good as the book, but amazing.

enframed wrote: Mon May 16, 2022 1:58 am My Brilliant Friend on HBO. Not as good as the book, but amazing.

I watched the first ep some year ago. There was a part where the children were throwing stones or something and the voice track faded out and there was only music, things like that I think are kinda lame. Otherwise it looked promising.

kokorodoko wrote:

enframed wrote: Mon May 16, 2022 1:58 am My Brilliant Friend on HBO. Not as good as the book, but amazing.

I watched the first ep some year ago. There was a part where the children were throwing stones or something and the voice track faded out and there was only music, things like that I think are kinda lame. Otherwise it looked promising.

I understand your aversion to that completely. Have you read the books? There is a reason why they might do that with Lila specifically, but I'm sure the concept is very difficult to put to film. I'll know more after S1-E4.