#anthony beavis

[tilbageidanmark]

(All the other memes I’ve made..)

[nothing-but-music-videos]

Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Love Rollercoaster"

Music video, 1996

Cover of "Love Rollercoaster" by the Ohio Players

Part of the soundtrack for Beavis and Butt-head Do America (1996)

[mariocki]

New Scotland Yard: Perfect in Every Way (1.9, LWT, 1972)

"You come here and you tell me my... dear man is dead. Your friend is dead, a good man - a good man, that's what they always tell me - you come here and you say he's dead, and, and 'Who did it? Oh, we must find out who did it, we're all good policemen!'... You're ruthless. Like he was."

"You don't mean that."

"Oh, he was a good man, wasn't he? Well, that's just what he wasn't. He was never allowed to be, he was a policeman! A perfect officer of the law, morning, afternoon, evening and night. Sometimes he wouldn't speak to me for weeks, we - we lived a terrible, terrible life."

[the-fragile-joan]

From "Rollercoaster" music video.

[aurorabayrpg]

the votes have all been tallied and the results are in for this year's Monster Mash costume contest!

remember, 1st place winners receive $500 cash, 2nd place $250, and 3rd place wins a $50 gift card to Sharky's!

Best Costume

First Place: Mack Montgomery as Longlegs @mackmontgomery

Second Place: Esma Demirci as Cher @esmaxdemirci

Third Place: Darcy Anthony as Megamind @darcyxanthonyx

Best Duo

First Place: Cherry Koch and Ziggy Kyeons as Jesse and James @cherryxkoch @ziggykyeons

Second Place: Roxy del Rosario and Santiago de Leon as Mothman and a catcher @roxdelrosario @santiagodeleons

Third Place: Maverick Liu and Atticus Cortes as Beavis and Butthead Beavis @maverick-liu @atticuscortes

Funniest

First Place: Cricket Campbell as Jojo Siwa @cricketcampbell

Second Place: Sebastian Torres as Mrs. Doubtfire @sebitorres

Third Place: Peyton Dyer as Sasquatch @pytndyer

Sexiest

First Place: Iris Alderidge as Catwoman @theirisxalderidge

Second Place: Maia Anderson as Britney Spears @maiaxanderson

Third Place: Emira Dursun as a Fembot @emiradursun

Creative

First Place: Celia Baker as a Tomato pin cusion @celia-baker

Second Place: Shiloh Sharma as The death of Katy Perry's career @shilohsharma

Third Place: Mason Cambridge as Allan from The Hangover @masoncambridge

[femmmie]

💛Smoshblr December Asks Final Day💙

We‘ve done it! We’ve finally reached the end of this lil ask game and also the end of 2023! 🥳 Thank you so much for joining in on this, I truly appreciate it so much 🫶! I wish you a wonderful start into the new year and that all your hopes and dreams for 2024 will come true! ✨💞

But, since the year isn’t quite over yet, I thought this might be a nice time to reminisce a little bit. Therefore, the final question of the Smoshblr December Asks Game:

What are your favourite smosh-related memories of 2023? 💖

(no specific amount required for this one; and you can ofc also include older smosh memories, if you want to 🤗)

Stella!! I'm so gonna miss getting your asks every day in my inbox T_T thank you so much for making this month extra special and festive, it was absolutely wonderful waking up knowing there would be a new one waiting!!! <3

My favorite Smosh-related memory? Well, idk, I read a really great fanfic, but it was a bit out there, a bit too sentimental and unrealistic... it goes like this:

Friendship always wins

The sun scorched the suburbs of Sacramento. The neighborhood looked like if a stock photo had a heroine problem. Bored out of their minds, two sixth graders got grouped together for a school project.

"Here, let me draw some turds on the trash pile."

"I'll add flies."

"Hehehe, yeah that looks better."

The two kids, Ian and Anthony, connected through their shared humor, which ranged from Beavis and Butthead to Home Alone to Southpark, and to whatever was on the internet in that godforsaken time pre-2005.

The oldest one, Anthony, came from a broken home. He had to grow up fast and take care of his siblings and mom. The only times he could really be a kid and fuck around, was with his best friend Ian. Feeling nurtured by Ian's mom and dad, and constantly laughing at Ian's jokes, his happiness was there, with Ian. He could get through working hard, as long as he had Ian to go back to and have fun.

Their nerdy friend group were all into internet humor and Anthony came up with the idea of having a forum for them all to shitpost on and share their creations and collaborate.

But then he got sick. Really sick. He couldn't go to school, had to stay home for six months. He felt so isolated, not seeing his friends, most of all Ian. But Ian showed up at his house with a get well soon card. It was signed by everyone from his class. He could cry, he was so happy with this symbol of friendship. It kept him going the rest of the months. He put his time and energy into coding and learning how to do graphic design.

Smosh was born and it took off. First the website was just for them; Ian, Anthony, and their friends. It had stuff like articles, memes and videos. But soon the whole school was frequenting the site. News traveled outside the school even, and before they knew it, Smosh was an internet phenomenon. After they graduated, Ian and Anthony chose to keep the website going. Just for fun. And they got some money from merch they would distribute themselves.

One day, they saw that one of their videos was pirated and hosted on some new platform: YouTube. That gave them an idea: why not host all their videos there? It was free after all. Being at the right place at the right time, with the right kind of humor and the right kind of raw talent, Smosh was propelled to be one of the biggest YouTube channels there were. They even became the biggest one. However, with success also comes vultures, ready to take everything from you...

A company introduced themselves to Ian and Anthony and promised them the world: give Smosh to us, and you will only have to worry about making videos. We will take care of everything else. It sounded too good to be true. And sadly, it was. For even though at first, Ian and Anthony had more fun than ever, coming up with bigger and funnier videos than ever, they soon found out they were not in control anymore.

Anthony, who had always fought to stay in control of things; his family, his health, his whole life... it was very hard to see his creation being contorted and mutilated into something he didn't want it to be. And he grew to hate it. That hate spread everywhere, even towards his best friend, who kept trying to tell him "man, let's take the losses and be happy we have this job, we could have still been in Sacramento with nowhere to go."

But Anthony had had it.

"Ian, come with me, let's start a new channel, just the two of us."

"Anthony... I can't. It doesn't make any sense business wise. I know it's not ideal, but please, Anthony, stay?"

After years and years of putting his all into the company, Anthony couldn't do it anymore. He quit Smosh, and a shockwave went through the entire fandom that had built around it.

Smosh was still going. But you see, money and power got involved, and Ian and Anthony had lost sight of each other... they tried to hold on, you could see it clear as day, but they were ripped apart by the greed of the soulless company, which is a tautology, if you think about it.

Both guys were heartbroken. Still sneaking glances at each other, but not able to speak. Too much had happened between them.

And then the company went bankrupt and Smosh was in mortal danger. Ian, who had fought to keep the brand alive ever since Anthony left, fought as hard as he could to find someone to buy it, who wouldn't just sell it off for parts like an old car. Luckily, a YouTuber duo who knew Smosh from afar, stepped in and saved the day. Thanks to them and to Ian, Smosh survived. But was it really still Smosh? What was Smosh if it wasn't Ian and Anthony?

In the meantime, Anthony had rebooted his personal YouTube channel and through trial and error found success. Nothing like Smosh, of course, but impressive nonetheless.

Apart from each other, Ian and Anthony persevered. But they were still heartbroken and in need of something. That something was each other of course. And finally, years later, they met again. And they were both surprised. They had both healed and grown enough to see each other and talk freely, like adults. And they were surprised to see how well they still clicked.

It was like they were the same friends they had been all those years ago, but eve better. The slogan they had come up with all those years, finally rang true again, more than it had ever done. Friendship always wins.

And as they reconnected more and more, one faithful day, one of them said..

"what if we bought Smosh?"

And at that moment, their family was no longer broken, they were reunited and Anthony suddenly had a lot more 'kids' to take care of. But he was so happy, so happy to be with Ian again. He was finally fulfilled.

[wecouldpossiblycomment]

A rare pic Ian in Eyeless In Gaza (from my Mum’s collection). This treasure has left me speechless when I have had the privilege to view it at the British Film Institute. A brilliant production which would deserve a DVD edition. The way that Ian portrays Anthony Beavis' transfiguration from an edonist to a preacher for peace is impressive. (the scene where he sinks into a total panic because he is threatened by a Mexican is memorable, just like the opening scene when a dog falls down from a plane and crashes on the terrasse where Anthony and Helen are making love). Now I am quite sure that I have seen this production on French Television a long time ago (because of the image of the millstone In the opening credits).

[gumdytoonses]

El feminismo No Solo en las caricaturas Sino En Los Animes japoneses tambien

Anna:

Vaya Vaya Vaya La Sociedad Feminista de Los Estados Unidos De America Desde Ustedes Medicuenta por todo los personajes Mas Machistas como:

Pepe el Zorillo EuroAmericano

Johnny Bravo

Robot Jones

Irwin

El Rey Helado

Chris Mclean

Juanpisimo y Cupido

Ya estan Nuetra cultura de la Cancelacion

WENDY:

Yo soy El Fan de Otras caricaturas Americanas como Una Caricatura Americana de 3 Niñas ❤💙💚 Que Hace Enojar Todos Los Hombres Americanos Por Una Ladrona que Roba Un Dolar de Plata de Susan B Anthony lo vi con ERZA

El Flojo Acosador y Guapo JOHNNY Por Una Medium que cambia de ♂️➡️♀️ Para Dar La Lession El Acoso Callejero

Pero lo que No Me Gusta Es Por un niño de esa Organizacion KND Por Alterar la Linea del Tiempo Y destruir El Rayo Feminizador Y La Propiedad de ST RITA

Esto causo Feminismo en Cartoon Network Propidedad de Warner Bros y DC COMICS que Tambien son Fan de Todos Los SuperHeores Femeninos Americanas pero

Todas Las Empresas Americanas Son machistas Tambien Estudios Que Crean Animes Tambien Son Machistas y Asesinas

Bueno Disney es Un Poco Machista Porque me gusta todas Las Princesas Que Son Guerreras Como:

Valentes

Pocahondas

Enrredados

Frozen Elsa es el Nombre de Mi Amiga que la miro

Y Mi Favorita es MULAN esta Pelicula de una Guerrera China Que Miramos en Los Cines Con Mis Amigas Y Erza La miro tambien

Lo que es Machista es por:

La bella y La Bestia

Blanca Nieves y Los 7 enanos

Aladdin

Y la Cenicinta

Sakura:

Pero disney y Warner No solo son empresas Machistas Sino Paramout Dueño de Nickelodeon Tambien Hubieron Casos de Acoso Sexual y capitulos Polemicos

Como Bob esponja y Patricio Estrella Que Hizo Que Entrara La Propiedad de Arenita Bajo de la Nieve Diciendo El Sucio Dan Schneider Tambien John K El Creador de Ren Y Stimpy y Chris Savino El Creador de The Loud House un niño que tiene 10 Hermanas

Pero Hablemos de Sucio Dan Schneider Es el creador se Series Live action Como:

ICarly

Zoey 101

Henry Danger

Sam y Cat

Bella y Los BullDogs

Y Mas Series Live Action

El Sucio Dan Tiene Fechies Con Los Piez de Las Actrizes esto es Un Asco

Wendy:

Pero Lo Que Me gusta de Nick un niño Que tiene 2 Adas Mire Los Padrinos Magicos Lo que No me gusta Es Por El Acoso de Una Estudiante Polular Llamada Trixie Tang Tambien 3 Adas Machos Como Cosmo,Juanpisimo y Jorgen y una Ada hembra Rosa Wanda

El Pequeño Timmy Hizo que Deseara que todas las personas del Mundo desaparecieran Por Trixie

Pero Lo Rechaza en el Capitulo El Dia de San Valentin Donde Dice Timmy

Timmy Turner:

Deseo Vivir En Un Mundo Sin Mujeres

Wendy:

En Donde Los Hombres Separo de mas Mujeres Y El Mundo Se Divide En 2 en el Mundo de Los Hombres Orgullozos Viviendo Solos Pero en Suciedad

Mientras el Mundo de Las Muejeres Orgullozas vivendo Solas en La Limpieza

Por El Deseo Cahotico Que Hizo Timmy Es Volviera A Enamorarze Pero Es Demasiado Tarde todos Los Hombres y Las Mujeres Siente Un VACIO INTERIOR Causada Por la FALTA DE AMOR

Pero Cupido Sufrila Sus ULTIMAS HORAS

Anna:

Y Si Timmy No Resuelve Cupido Desaparecera Para Siempre y el Amor Dejara de Existir

Pero Timmy Hizo Que Volviera A Enamorarze a los de Mas pero este capitulo Fuera Cancelado por nuestra Generacion del nuestro Feminismo Radical No Solo Caricaturas para el Publico Sino en

series Animadas Para Adultos Americanos

[Adult Swim]Propiedad de Warner Bros:

Harvey Birdman

Pollo Robot

Mr Pickle

Laboratorio Submarino 2021

Aqua Teen Hungry Force

Rick y Morty

Final Spaces y Mas Caricaturas Para Adutos de AS

De La Fox estan:

Futurama

Los Simpsons

Padre De Familia

American Dad

Cleveland Show

BtinckyBerry

Los Reyes de la colina

Y mas Series Adultas

De MTV Y Comedy Central:

South Park

Ugly American

La Casa De Los Dibujos

Happy Tree Friends

TripTack

Beavis And ButtHeads

Mr Hell

Celebrities DeathMash

Liquid TV

Y Stripidella

Mandy:

Pero No Solo en Las Caricaturas del Nuestro Pais

Sino Tus Caricaturas Japonesas Causaron Polemica

Como:

Pokemon El Capitulo que Causo Colbuciones,un Miebro del Equipo Rocket James Que Uso 2 Inflantes Falsos Para que fuera Mujer y El Machismo entre Ash y Mistique

En Dragon Ball LA Desnudes de Bulma y mas casos de Asoco Sexual

Pero hay Mas Censura por tus caricaturas

Anna:

Mandy Pero Nuestras Caricaturas en niestro Pais Japon Lo Llamamos ANIME y Nuestro Comics Los Llamamos MANGA

Pero El anime y el Mange tambien tiene Casos de Controversias

Explotacion Laboral a Mappa Studios

Crean Ataque de Los Titanes

Kore wa Zombie desu ka

Tambien el Acoso Sexual a Los creadores de Animes como:

Tatsuta matsuki Creador de Act Age

Ichiro Kurata Crador de Animes Para Adultos Hay Generos De Animes Para Adultos Mas Polemicos que Causaron Feminismo y acoso Como:

Enchi,Hentai,Gore,Eroguro y Harem

Nabuhiro Watsuki Creador de Samurai X

Y Los Animes y Mangas Para Adultos Son:

High School DXD

Monster Musumen

Yosugona Sora

Mnemosyne

Freezing

Evagelion

Darling

Shimai Maoui no Testament

Elfen Life

Triage X

Another

Monster Girls Doctors

Ishizou Reviwers

Jaifuku Jutsushi

Y la lista Sigue Sigue Y Continua

Hay estudios de Animes que Fueron en bacarrota por violar y Romper leyes feministas Japonesas Son Los siguentes:

MadHouse,Arms,Manglobe,Tear Studios,Bee Train,Half Film Maker,Artland,Group TAC y Manglobe

Y Para Los siguentes es

Kyoto Animation Por el Incendio

Toei Animation

Studio Bones y Viz Meida

Sunrices

Mappa Studios

Jc Staff

A1 Picture

Hidive

CrunchyRoll

Sony Entertaiment

Productuon IG

Y mas El Anime Y El Manga Llegara Su Fin en 2030 Por el Machismo,Feminismo, y Series de Anime Que Causaron Maltrato y Femicidos Ala Muejeres en Japon

Mandy:

Tambien en Estados Unidos todo Por El Personaje Pepe El Zorillo Ya las Empresas Warner,Disney,Paramout,Universal,Discovery,Netflix,Microsoft,Nintendo,Apple Y Google

Mandy,Marceline,Raven,Vaggie,Wendy,Anna,Sakura y Erza:

La Industra Del Entretenimento Llegara A Su Fin En Otros Año 20??

Como yo les comente y Fanart Mensaje feminista ala Animacion y ala Franquicias Publicas Como 🎮✏🇺🇸🇯🇵🎬🎥🎵 Por La Generacion del Cristal y la Generacion de las Feminista

Por favor Salven Alas Franquicias Publicas como Las Caricaturas,Videojuegos,El Anime,Peliculas y Musica Tambien Eventos Publicos En La vida Real como Deportes,Club Nocturnos,Maquinas Arcade,tienda de Manga y Comics

Antes que Sea Desasiado Tarde por culpa de

La Generacion de Cristal Todo por Wliminar todo Los Personajes Masculinos Machista

Y Devido Que La Generacion de Feminismo Potencial mente Radical Esta MALDITA

Asi Lo Llamo

LA MALDICION DEL FEMINISMO

[natehoodreviews]

Best Films of 2022

As some of you might have noticed, I didn’t publish many pieces or read many fiction books this past year. The reason for that was that 2022 was a particularly busy year for me in terms of schoolwork and regular old work, specifically my first unit of CPE residency to become a hospital chaplain. Still, though, I did manage to see around 50 movies released this past year. Here are my picks for the best of them.

15)  Armageddon Time – Dir. James Gray

If I had a nickel for every Jewish-American cinematic Künstlerroman released in 2022, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice. Jokes aside, Armageddon Time is a fantastic coming-of-age story, and the specter of Anthony Hopkins really helps keep its head above the water of becoming excessively maudlin. In the hands of a lesser filmmaker, this material could've come across as excessively preachy, but Gray nails the correct tone for making it hit like a sledgehammer. That said, somehow in all the time before watching this movie I'd managed to avoid the news that the Trumps were in it. When I tell you that I felt ice water in my gut when they first appeared, I mean I felt like I cannonballed into the Arctic Ocean. I've said it before, but one of the most obnoxious things about Trump is that he's going to become as ubiquitous in future media as a metonym for everything that's corrupt and evil in the USA as Lincoln is for all that's good and noble. I just want Trump to GO AWAY.

14)  Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe – Dirs. John Rice and Albert Calleros

I cannot believe that this ended up being one of my favorite movies of the year. It begins with one of the cinema’s greatest nut-shots and only gets funnier. A bacchanalia of juvenile stupidity.

13)  Nope – Dir. Jordan Peele 

We as a society need to do whatever it takes to keep Jordan Peele making his intensely unique, intensely bizarre flights of cinematic fancy. This damn thing was a slow-burn horror film, a heist movie, a thriller, and a creature feature rolled into one.

12)  Top Gun: Maverick – Dir. Joseph Kosinski

The best male weepy since ONLY THE BRAVE (2017). Light years better than it had any right to be, and not really as toxic as I expected. Some of the most fun I’ve had in a movie theater all year. Not the MOST fun, but it’s definitely way, WAY up there.

11)  32 Sounds – Dir. Sam Green

I've been a fan of Sam Green and JD Samson after seeing one of their Live Cinema shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music several years ago. I am thrilled to report that Green's new film 32 SOUNDS is probably the best translation of their specifically mind-blowing, tender, and intimate live performances that we'll ever get. With only 32 sounds, Green captures a kaleidoscope of the human experience in ways at once amusing yet profound, devastating yet hopeful.

10)  The Batman – Dir. Matt Reeves

“I don't know if that was the BEST Batman movie, but it was definitely the MOST Batman movie. That said, it was refreshing to see a Batman film that remembers that he's a world-class detective. I have issues with this film, but almost all of them fall away when I think about how we finally got a superhero film that truly, deeply cares as much about images as it does the characters and stories. The Batmobile emerging from a wall of fire, muzzle flashes illuminating dark hallways like bolts of lightning, Batman leading a spiderweb of survivors through floodwaters while holding aloft a flare—these are IMAGES that are going to stick with me for a long time. Also, that opening sequence of petty criminals getting scared by the sight of the Bat-Signals leading up to Batman emerging from the subway tunnel... #chefskiss“”

[Full review at http://www.unseenfilms.net/2022/03/nate-hood-on-batman.html]

9)  The Fabelmans – Dir. Steven Spielberg

An extraordinary work of compassion, contrition, and grace. So much more than an autobiography—it's a Rosetta Stone for one of the cinema's greatest artists. I am have no idea how Spielberg and Kushner can explore feelings and emotions of such byzantine complexity while making it seem so effortless and natural. Pure wizardry.

8)  Elvis – Dir. Baz Luhrmann

The first half is pitch-perfect rhinestone gaudiness and the second half almost Shakespearean tragedy. It's equal parts pathos and bathos, wrapped in silk and slicked with pomade. Baz Luhrmann has been preparing his entire career for this one movie and it shows. I'm honestly mystified by people dunking on Tom Hanks' performance. Was it an accurate depiction of Colonel Tom Parker? Probably not, but Hanks created perhaps the greatest ghoul in popular American cinema since J. K. Simmons' Terence Fletcher. And finally, the early sequence juxtaposing a young Elvis spying on a blues joint and attending a gospel revival ranks up there Bheem attacking the British gala with his animal friends in RRR and the opening scene from THE BATMAN as my favorite so far of 2022.

7)  The Banshees of Inisherin – Dir. Martin McDonagh

This one absolutely gutted me. I spent the last forty minutes of that film scarcely breathing because I kept waiting for The Bad Thing to happen after the banshee made her prophecy. Also, this film was like watching an autistic person's worst nightmare made real. I'm serious. You want to know the one thing an autistic person fears the most? The people they love suddenly deciding one day for no apparent reason that they just don't like you anymore.

6)  RRR – Dir. S. S. Rajamouli

“After years of Hollywood franchise glut—of reboots and remakes, spin-off miniseries and bloated two-part finales—watching S. S. Rajamouli’s Telugu-language epic RRR is like taking that first breath of outside air after being cooped up all day in an office building with no air conditioning. It’s like taking a long, cool sip of ice water after days in the desert with nothing to drink but lukewarm Diet Coke. It’s like being reminded for the first time since you were a child amazed by the moving pictures on the television that movies can truly do anything, say anything, and be anything. It’s not just the most triumphant, crowd-pleasing blockbuster in years, it’s the best, most exhilarating action movie from any country since George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).”

[Full review at: http://www.unseenfilms.net/2022/06/nate-hood-on-epic-masterpiece-rrr-2022.html]

5)  ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS: Boku no Natsuyasumi – Dir. Tim Rogers (YouTube: Action Button)

The Ross McElwee/Lester Bangs of video game journalism returns with another 6+ hour opus on a video game most gamers outside of Japan may never have heard of before. Somehow, it’s his best yet. An exhaustive yet somehow never exhausting autobiographical examination of nostalgia, loss, and memory, Tim Rogers somehow finds in the act of playing a video game about a young boy’s summer vacation in the Japanese countryside a simulacrum for the universal human experience.

4)  We Met in Virtual Reality – Dir. Joe Hunting

Talk about a dark horse pick for one of the best movies of 2022. I've said it before and I'll say it again: my favorite kind of art is the art that makes me feel more human. WE MET IN VIRTUAL REALITY is a stunningly moving and sincere look at how humans have begun creating social ecosystems in virtual spaces. It would've been so easy for director Joe Hunting to play the things he found for laughs—and in fairness, it's easy to chortle at the idea of an anime couple proposing to each other after meeting in an exotic dancing class or a group of furry avatars talking about their sexual orientations around a campfire—but he looks for the human beneath and within his subjects.

3)  Mad God – Dir. Phil Tippett

A Voynich Manuscript of stop-motion blasphemies; a compendium of Švankmajer nightmares and H.R. Giger fever dreams. Hieronymus Bosch wept. If your reaction to this movie was that it didn't have enough plot, I hate you. If anything it had TOO MUCH plot. Don't be fooled by the stop-motion animation—there's more Stan Brakhage in this film's DNA than Hieronymus Bosch. I can say with no exaggeration that this film was one of the most overwhelming aesthetic experiences I've ever had in a movie theater. I could feel myself frozen to the seat for its entire runtime.

2)  Everything Everywhere All At Once – Dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

As a film critic, I've seen literally thousands of movies. But only a handful have ever given me an experience close to approximating Stendhal syndrome. I can say with some certainty that EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE is the only one to involve a sex toy kung fu fight.

1)  Glass Onion – Dir. Rian Johnson

GLASS ONION left me in a near-constant state of shock and disbelief for its last hour. I have no idea how Rian Johnson was able to outdo KNIVES OUT, but here we are. It's smarter, funnier, nastier, and proves that the first film's populist overtones were no fluke. That it wrapped BEFORE Musk bought twitter is one of the greatest acts of cinematic prognostication maybe ever? But it's so much more than just a furious defenestration of billionaire tech bros, it's another condemnation on how the uber-rich close ranks to protect their own. That whole scene where Miles' "friends" joined in Janelle Monáe's destructive rampage—but only for a little bit!—is such a powerful statement on how celebrities will performatively ape leftist politics in between private jet flights to cross union picket lines. But my favorite part of the film was watching it with my mother. She originally had no interest in it when I chose it (it was my turn to pick the movie!). I LOVED watching it cast the same spell on her that it did on me until by the end she was LITERALLY on her feet cheering! I'm sorry, but I don't know how you could look at Rian Johnson's last three films and NOT consider him one of the best filmmakers working today. I don't know if any director since the heyday of Spielberg has more perfectly mastered the art of the crowd-pleasing genre film. THE LAST JEDI then KNIVES OUT then GLASS ONION back-to-back-to-back? Ladies and gentlemen, THAT is a friggin' cinematic pedigree.

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Toby Huss as Anthony Lamb in Copshop (2021). Toby was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, and has 164 acting credits from a 1984 short to 2024. This is his fifth honorable mention, after Cowboys and Aliens, God Bless America, 42 and In a Valley of Violence. His entry among my best 1001 is Enough Said.

His other notable credits include The Basketball Diaries, Jerry Maguire, voices in Beavis and Butthead Do America, 24 episodes of Carnivale, an episode of 30 Rock, Furry Vengeance, 164 episodes as voices in King of the Hill, an episode of Shameless, Ghostbusters, two episodes of Feud (as Frank Sinatra), a voice in Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe, Blonde, and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

[tvguidancecounselor]

TV Guidance Counselor Episode 654: Jeff Cerulli

January 3-9, 1998

This week Ken welcomes comedian, filmmaker and all around good dude Jeff Cerulli to the show.

Ken and Jeff discuss documentary films, hot dog eating contests, TV Eating Contests, The Simpsons, Senior Year of High School, The Spin Doctors, mail order CDs, TV Guide appearing in movies, The Ice Storm, The Postman, Equal, smoking bans, beepers, the top 12 Simpsons episodes (circa 1998), winning the REAL Simpsons house, Ice-T, Marky Mark, having no concept of modern country and Christian music, The Wiz, Comics Come Home, Road Rules, The Real World, Star Wars Special Edition, Jackie Mason, Caddyshack II, how Vaudeville could be alt com, Pacific Blue, Baywatch, the extended Baywatch Universe, The Black Out Effect vs. The Trigger Effect, Demi Moore in Striptease, horny viewing, Mannequin being a three star movie, Beavis and Butthead, VH1 Pop Up Video, The Brothers McMullan, Poison Ivy series, Boy Meets World, voice over, Richard Lewis, bOkU, Drew Carey Show, the horrors of White Grape, Buffy the Vampire Slayer the movie, The Cronenberg Dynasty, Scanners II, MTV as a home channel, when we all hand to witness Anthony Michael Hall break out of being a nerd, Johnny B Goode, Bill Paxton, Weird Science, Seinfeld's final season, the return of Larry David, Bulls, Michael Jordan, Oliver Stone vs. Oliver North, Celebrity Jeopardy, and a particularly angry Cheers and Jeers.

[tvrundownusa]

tvrundown USA 2023.06.29

Thursday, June 29th:

(exclusive): The Witcher (netflix, season 3A available, first 5 eps), Ten-Year-Old Tom (MAX, season 2 available, all 10 eps), Ooku: The Inner Chambers (netflix, anime series, all 10 eps), Secret Chef (hulu, cooking competition premiere, all 10 eps)

(movies): "Jericho Ridge" (BET+, 2022 action-thriller), "Murder City" (TUBI, gritty crime drama, 90mins), "Lust Stories 2" (netflix, Indian anthology, 4 short films, 2hrs++)

(streaming weekly): Judge Me Not (AllBlk), Lace (AllBlk, legal drama, season 2 opener), Warrior (MAX, season 3 opener, first 2 eps), And Just Like That… (MAX), Downey's Dream Cars (MAX, next 2 eps), The Other Two (MAX, series finale), Swiping America (MAX, next 2 eps, season 1 finale), Clean Sweep (AMC+|SundanceNow), The Walking Dead: "Dead City" (AMC+), iCarly (Para+), Beavis & Butt-Head (Para+, season 2 finale), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Para+)

(original made-for-TV movies): "Sins of The Preacher's Wife" (LMN, 2hrs), "Chaos on the Farm" (LMN, later, 2hrs)

(earlier - hour 0): The Really Loud House (NICK, 60mins, season 1 finale)

(hour 1): Erin & Aaron (NICK, 60mins, season 1 finale), The Blacklist (NBC), Generation Gap (ABC, gameshow season 2 opener, new time)

(hour 2): The Chase (ABC, season 3B opener, new time), Celebrity Game Face (E!), Project Runway (BRAVO, 90mins), Nick Cannon presents: Wild 'n Out (VH1)

(hour 3): Press Your Luck (ABC, repeats, new timeslot), Project Runway (BRAVO, contd), "Look into My Eyes" (Sundance, part 3 of 4), "The Legion of Exorcists" (Travel), Trippin' (E!, w/ Anthony Anderson & Mama Doris, 60mins)

(hour 4 - latenight): Unicorn: Warriors Eternal ([adultswim], season 1 finale), "Spanish Disinfodemic" (VICE) / . / "Dead Time" (VICE)

[imaginationstimulation]

“A genius . . . a writer who spent his lifetime decrying the onward march of the Machine.” — The New Yorker First published in 1936--and hailed as his best work--EYELESS IN GAZA is Aldous Huxley's loosely autobiographical novel of one man’s search for an alternative to the moral disillusionment of the modern world. Anthony Beavis, a cynical libertine Oxford graduate, comes of age in the vacuum left by World War I. His life, loves, and foreign adventures leave him unfulfilled, until. [...] EYELESS IN GAZA remains one of Huxley’s most enduring novels, a testament to the challenges and rewards of bold, vigorous thinking. 

EXCERPTS / QUOTES / NOTES FROM MY READING:  

[F]ashion is a topiary art. Those swan-life loins! That long slanting cascade of bosom - without any apparent relation to the naked body beneath! And all that hair, like an ornamental deformity of the skull! Oddly hideous and repellent it seemed in 1933. It was the same with these snapshots of Mary Amberley, taken ten years later. The skirt was long as ever, and within her narrower bell of drapery woman still glided footless, as though on castors. The breasts, it was true, had been pushed up a bit, the redundant posterior pulled in. But the general shape of the clothed body was still strangely improbable. A crab shelled in whalebone. And this huge plumed hat of 1911 was simply a French funeral of the first class. How could any man in his senses have been attracted by so profoundly anti-aphoridisiac an appearance? And yet, in spite of the snapshots, he could remember her the very embodiment of desirability. At the sight of that feathered crab on wheels his heart had beaten faster, his breathing had become oppressed.

...as Bubbles, in grass-green velveteen and ruffles...

...Anthony found himself reflecting impersonally, as he examined the top-hatted and tail-coated image of himself at Eton, a proof that progress can only be recorded, never experienced. He reached out for his note-bok, opened it and wrote: ‘Progress may, perhaps, be perceived by historians; it can never be felt by those actually involved in the supposed advance. The young are born into the advancing circumstances, the old take them for granted within a few months or years, advances aren’t felt as advances. There is no gratitude -- only irritation if, for any reason, the newly invented conveniences break down. Men don’t spend their time thanking God for cars; they only curse when the carburetor is choked.’       He closed the book and returned to the top-hat of 1907. 

There was a sound of footsteps and, looking up, he saw Helen Ledwidge approaching with those long springing strides of hers... Under the wide hat her face was bright with the reflection from her flame-coloured beach pyjamas. As though she were in hell. And in fact, he went on to think, she was there. The mind is its own place; she carried her hell about with her. The hell of her grotesque marriage; other hells, too, perhaps. But he had always refrained from enquiring too closely into their nature, had always pretended not to notice when she herself offered to be his guide through their intricacies. Enquiry and exploration would land him in heaven-knew-what quagmire of emotion, what sense of responsibility. And he had no time, no energy for emotions and responsibilities. His work came first. Suppressing his curiosity, he went on stubbornly playing the part he had long since assigned himself - the part of the detached philosopher, of the preoccupied man of science who doesn’t seen the things that to everyone else are obvious. He acted as if he could detect in her face nothing but its external beauties of form and texture. Whereas, of course, flesh is never wholly opaque; the soul shows through the walls of its receptacle. Those clear grey eyes of hers, that mouth with its delicately lifted upper lip, were hard and almost ugly with a resentful sadness. 

There was a convention between them that there should never be any fuss; not even the fuss of saying good-morning. No fuss at all. 

... “Not working?” she asked in surprise. It was so rare to find him otherwise than immersed in books and papers.       He shook his head. "No sociology today.”      “What are you looking at?” Standing by his chair, she bent over the scattered snapshots.       “At my old corpses.” He handed her the ghost of the dead Etonian.       After studying it for a moment in silence, “You looked nice then.” she commented. ... “[Y]ou looked really sweet then. Touching.      “But I still am,” Anthony protested, smiling up at her.       She looked at him for a moment in silence.      Under the thick dark hair the forehead was beautifully smooth and serene, like the forehead of a meditative child. Childish too, in a more comical way, was the short short, slightly tilted nose. Between their narrowed lids the eyes were alive with inner laughter, and there was a smile also about the corners of the lips - a faint ironic smile that in some sort contradicted what the lips seemed in their form to express. They were full lips, finely cut; voluptuous and at the same time grave, sad, alwmost tremulously sensitive. Lips as though naked in their brooding sensuality; without defence of their own and abandoned to their helplessness by the small, unaggressive chin beneath.       “The worst of it is,” Helen said at last, “that you’r eright. You are sweet, you are touching. God knows why. Beautiful you oughtn’t to be. It’s all a swindle really, a trick for getting people to like you on false pretences.”       “Come!      “You make them give you something for nothing.”      “But at least I’m always perfectly frank about its being nothing. I never pretend it’s a Grand Passion.” He rolled the ri and opened the as grotesquely. “Not even a Wahlverwandschaft,” he added, dropping into German, so as to make all this romantic business of affinities and violent emotions sound particularly ridiculous. “Just a bit of fun.”       “Jus ta bit of fun,” helen echoed ironically, thinking, as she spoke, of that period at the beginning of the affair, when she had stood, so to speak on the threshold of being in love with him - on the threshold, waiting to be called in. But how firmly (for all his silence and studied gentleness), how definitely and decidedly he had shut the door against her! He didn’t want to be loved. For a moment she had been on the verge of rebellion; then, in that spirit of embittered and sarcastic resignation with which she had learned to face the world, she accepted his conditions. They were the more acceptable since there was no better alternative in sight; since, after all, he was a remarkable man and, after all, she was very fond of him; since, also he knew how to give her at least a physical satisfaction. “Just a bit of fun,” she repeated, and gave a little snort of laughter.       Anthony shot a glance at her, wondering uncomfortably whether she meant to break the tacitly accepted agreement between them and refer to some forbidden topic. But his fears were unjustified.       “Yes, I admit it,” she went on after a little silence. “You’re honest all right. But that doesn’t alter the fact that you’re always getting something for nothing. Call it an unintentional swindle. Your face is your fortune, I suppose. Handsome is as handsome doesn’t, in your case.” 

“There ought to be some way of getting rid of one’s superfluous memories. How I hate old Proust! Really detest him.” And with a richly comic eloquence he proceeded to evoke the vision of that asthmatic seeker of lost time squatting, horribly white and flabby, with breasts almost female but fledged with long black hairs, for ever squatting in the tepid bath of his remembered past. And all the stale soapsuds of countless previous washings floated around im, all the accumulated dirty of yeras lay crusty on the sides of the tub or hung in dark suspension in the water. And there he sat, a pale repellent invalid, taking up spongefuls of his own thick soup and squeezing it over his face, scooping up cupfuls of it and appreciatively rolling the grey and gritty liquor round his mouth, gargling, rinsing his nostrils with it, like a pious Hindu in the Ganges...       “You talk about him,” said Helen, “as if he were a personal enemy.” 

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