#2020’s

[nightmare-grass]

Signs of the Apocalypse

As it pertains to The Magnus Archives

- The Lonely: the eradication of third places, the rising costs of nonessential services and recreational activities, the stagnant wages and rampant poverty forcing people to work and stay home, the way every piece of news about the suffering of our fellow man is too overwhelming and we shut down, shutting out the suffering and the people with it

- The Spiral: the rise of AI generated content mimicking human creations and human faces, the companies overwhelmingly turning to AI so they don’t have to pay real people for real work, the spread of misinformation and disinformation at rapid pace across the internet

- The Slaughter: the increasingly extremist right wing policies taking over governments across the world, violently suppressing any differences or dissent, inspiring acts of violence against the oppressed

- The Eye: increased prevalence of data collection and AI surveillance, government surveillance, targeted advertising, increasing amount of social media posts documenting the private lives of strangers and the lack of social awareness for what’s right and wrong

- The Buried: the widening wealth inequality gap, the unrelenting pressure on employees to perform when understaffed and underpayed, the humanitarian disasters that arise from global warming leaving people trapped in rubble, drowned, the mass graves

- The Corruption: the lingering effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Antivax movement, the resurgence of diseases, the price gouging of life saving medicine, we still haven’t cured cancer

- The Desolation: the bombings in Palestine, the destruction of Ukrainian civilian areas by Russian forces, the rampant forest fires and brush fires

- The Vast: the increasingly worrying trend of billionaires focusing on space travel while everyone else knows they’ll be left behind if they can’t afford the ticket, the fear of what may be lurking out there, the fear of everything that could go wrong, malfunction, fall apart like a Boeing plane

- The Web: the overexposure of advertising, the worry that your life is no longer your own as you live only to work, make money, buy products to get by, then work some more

- The Extinction: the way companies and governments willfully ignore global warming, the way they let catastrophic wars continue, and they let the people suffer from it

- The Stranger: AI tools taking real peoples faces, voices, and creations, only to repurpose them into mashed up semblances of whatever a user indicates they want to see

- Currently can’t find much evidence of The Dark, The Hunt, or The Flesh in our modern world but having so many of the entities at play at once is still concerning.

[dailylicenseplates]

License Plate of the Day 0012

State: Minnesota

Run: 2002-present

Type: special interest

Reinvest in Minnesota, Critical Habitat

One of ten different critical habitat plates offered, since their introduction in 1996, they’ve raised $19 million for land conservation. This one features a common loon, the state bird.

Image Credit

[yippeecheapdvds]

This month I watched “Chicken Run 2, Dawn of the Nugget” (2023) Comedy/Adventure

It was good I liked it ok. Almost as good as the first one. I liked frizzle, she was cute. All the voice actors had been replaced, it was shocking and unfortunately I couldn’t get used to it. I liked the late 1950’s- early 60’s athstetic they had going on, the music, and the 2D animated bits. I hope they make a third one where they overthrow the government.

Cool 6/10

[current-earworm]

A white dove symbolizes peace and pacifism

A white dove is a pigeon, you muffugas is bigots

[avida-heidia-5]

Last 10 songs I listened to

I saw @schumigrace doing one of these and thought I’d join in! 😁

1. My Secret Friend by IAMX feat. Imogen Heap (2009)

2. Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode (1990)

3. History In Black by Priest (2017)

4. Fighter by Sneaker Pimps (2021)

5. Wandering Star by Portishead (1994)

6. Black Milk by Massive Attack (1998)

7. Running Up That Hill by Placebo (2003)

8. Insomnia by IAMX (2016)

9. Every Day Is Exactly The Same by Nine Inch Nails (2005)

10. Without You I’m Nothing by Placebo feat. David Bowie (1999)

Just as well I did this today and not yesterday as this list would’ve been full of nothing but Depeche Mode and IAMX songs! I love them that much! 😅

Tagging @hurricane-heatt, @racingliners, @skitskatdacat63 and @twinkodium, but only if you want to. If you see this and you’re not tagged but would like to do this, then feel free. 😊

[tothefullhiltofmyheart]

Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

[wrathsquader9]

Fuck this

[zu-is-here]

the cream when it's getting dark or something,,

[buddiebeginz]

Beetlejuice (1988) | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

[jamesfrain]

Nosferatu 2024 | dir. Robert Eggers

[antshifts]

The kinda things mfs on 2020 shiftok was telling us to do to shift 💔

[dailylicenseplates]

License Plate of the Day 0182

State: Tennessee

Run: 2001-present

Type: special interest

Annual fee of $61.50, $35 of which goes to the Tennessee Arts Commission.

Image Credit

[yippeecheapdvds]

Two weeks ago I watched "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" (2024) Adventure/Sci-fi

I don't usually like apocalypse/post apocalypse stories, but i heard this was really good so my family and i went to see it in theaters. It was pretty good, the effects and environments were amazing, i liked the characters and i thought the themes and messages were interesting. it makes me exited to see the next movie and interested in seeing the previous movies.

met my expectations, 8/10

[current-earworm]

I need space, I need stars

I need no one

I need the place where the no ones are

[my-film-reel-world]

I watched the original Spanish version too and the acting in that was also amazing! The cast absolutely killed it in this. (Pun not intended) 🥰🥰🥰

Review originally posted to Letterboxd on 27th Jan 2024

I Just Watched: Society of the Snow (2023)

I don’t think I’ll ever be boarding on an aeroplane again after watching this!!! 😰

This was the most stressful and the most terrifying film I have ever seen. I was on the edge of my seat the whole way through! I spent a good chunk of the runtime hugging my legs close to my body in absolute terror! I’m not joking! 😧

The film is based on the harrowing true story of when Flight 571, while flying from Uruguay to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes Mountains, and the people who survived the accident work together to survive while trying to navigate their way home.

I wasn’t familiar with the story going into it. My parents have heard of it though, so I had to rely on them most of the time to know if what we were watching was accurate or not. I was also a little apprehensive upon reading the film’s synopsis because it sounded like your typical Hollywood blockbuster where they’re likely to glorify certain events and miscast actors who portrayed the real people involved in these events.

While watching the film however, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it didn’t feel blockbuster-y to me at all! Everything felt incredibly intimate, as if you’re watching a documentary with the way it was shot and acted. It felt grounded in reality thanks to the stunning cinematography and wonderful acting from the cast. The casting was excellent and the acting phenomenal. So much so, that I grew to care about the characters they portrayed and the perils they faced. Everyone was fully committed to their roles and shone like stars in the sky. I was admittedly close to tears by the end. It was so beautiful, I loved it! 🥲

I found out after doing some research that a lot of what happened in the film was accurate to the source material, including the scenes that involved c******lism. Having that bit of information in the film made my jaw drop. That was a very bold move on the film’s part! It was very disturbing to witness, but I enjoyed it regardless. Maybe a couple of minor details here and there were a little inaccurate, but that didn’t bother me in the slightest.

I’ve just learned that J. A. Bayona directed this. It’s a name you might not be familiar with, but he was the one who directed one of my favourite disaster films The Impossible (2012), which starred Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, and a very young Tom Holland. Funnily enough, that film was also based on a horrifying true event. Instead of a plane in the Andes, it’s a tsunami in Thailand in 2004; an event my parents also remember reading and hearing about on the news. I can imagine Bayona researching the hell out of these events to make sure the stories he tells are as close to accurate as possible, and he delivers to an insane degree every single time.

On another note, Michael Giacchino composed the score for this film. It’s not quite as memorable as his other work for, say, Pixar for example, but it suited the tone of the film exceptionally well. So if you’re a fan of his music, I recommend giving it a listen.

Overall, an utterly compelling and terrifying film to sit through. It filled its 2 1/2 hr long runtime very well. I cannot recommend this film enough! Give it a watch if you have the time.

(Now I need to watch it again in the original Spanish language. We watched the English dub and it was actually pretty good. English dubbed versions of foreign languages are notoriously awful (at least, by Netflix’s standard), so I was surprised by that. I’ll need to see how it compares with the original Spanish version though.)

9/10

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Lana Del Rey via Instagram, 2021