#delilo

[priscaren]

The last paragraph of Don DeLilo’s White Noise:

The supermarket shelves have been rearranged. It happened one day without warning. There is agitation and panic in the aisles, dismay in the faces of older shoppers. They walk in a fragmented trance, stop and go, clusters of well-dressed figures frozen in the aisles, trying to figure out the pattern, discern the underlying logic, trying to remember where they'd seen the Cream of Wheat. They see no reason for it, find no sense in it. The scouring pads are with the hand soap now, the condiments are scattered. The older the man or woman, the more carefully dressed and groomed. Men in Sansabelt slacks and bright knit shirts. Women with a powdered and fussy look, a self-conscious air, prepared for some anxious event. They turn into the wrong aisle, peer along the shelves, sometimes stop abruptly, causing other carts to run into them. Only the generic food is where it was, white packages plainly labeled. The men consult lists, the women do not. There is a sense of wandering now, an aimless and haunted mood, sweet-tempered people taken to the edge. They scrutinize the small print on packages, wary of a second level of betrayal. The men scan for stamped dates, the women for ingredients. Many have trouble making out the words. Smeared print, ghost images. In the altered shelves, the ambient roar, in the plain and heartless fact of their decline, they try to work their way through confusion. But in the end it doesn't matter what they see or think they see. The terminals are equipped with holographic scanners, which decode the binary secret of every item, infallibly. This is the language of waves and radiation, or how the dead speak to the living. And this is where we wait together, regardless of age, our carts stocked with brightly colored goods. A slowly moving line, satisfying, giving us time to glance at the tabloids in the racks. Everything we need that is not food or love is here in the tabloid racks. The tales of the supernatural and the extraterrestrial. The miracle vitamins, the cures for cancer, the remedies for obesity. The cults of the famous and the dead.

Noah Baumbach: I know *exactly* how to adapt this 🎶 💃🕺

[beemovieerotica]

dear people with OCD: the next time you have spiraling & intrusive thoughts, what-ifs, or catastrophizing scenarios, I am sending a cardigan-wearing 46-year old NYU professor directly into your brain and he says "Aaaaand scene!!!" and he claps his hands slowly. and he says "Wow. Wow. Powerful stuff. Evocative imagery. A little bit post-modern, a little bit hysterical realism in the vein of Don Delilo but let's pause right here." and you will recognize your thoughts as a perplexing avant-garde film shown to an audience of 15 liberal arts students who are now trying to get a good grade and sleep with their professor.

[botantimes]

Hunermendekî kurd li Almanyayê pêşangeha rism û peykeran li dar xist

Delîlo Tarim li Almanyayê pêşangeha rism û peykeran li dar xist. Delîlo Tarim kurdek e û ev du sal in ew li Almanyayê dijî. Tarim mamosteyê rismê ye û wî li Stenbolê, li Zanîngeha Mimar Sînanê xwendîye. Wî bo Botan Timesê ragihand ku li Almanyayê pêşangeha xebatên xwe yên rism û peykeran li dar xistîye. Ew, armanca xebata xwe wiha pênase dike: Di nav van şert û mercên zehmet ên jîyanê da…

[crethida]

What is this Jack Gladney ass lecture I’m in?

[random-racehorses]

Random Real Thoroughbred: DELILO

DELILO is a mare born in Turkey in 1997. By HOMBRE out of NAHCIVAN. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/delilo

[sex-ray-spex]

I don’t trust anybody’s nostalgia but my own

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence.  -Don DeLilo, White Noise

[everywriterneedsfanart]

The body will hold on Frank Turner, The Fisher King Blues // Don DeLilo, White Noise // Maurice Pirenne, Evening // The Crane Wives, How to Rest // Richard Siken // StarParkDesigns // Birdtalker, Heavy // Dan Clandenin, The Voice of God

[shakespearesdaughters]

Do you have book recommendations?

I will always recommend Donna Tartt

The rules of attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

The Idiot by Elif Bautman

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn

White Noise by Don DeLilo

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey

The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Severance by Ling Ma

my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfeg

~ to name a few ~

[sillagen]

Çok halsiz olmama rağmen artık dinlenelim ya diye kalktım. O sıra "kayayı gırcı duttu ilvanlım, kaytanlım aman aman diye ilvanlım türküsünün ardından dama çıkmış bir güzel delilo delilo hayreney, damın etrafı gezer delilo delilo hayreney, elinde bir deste gül delilo delilo hayreney, kendi gülünden güzel deliloy deliloy 👯🏻‍♀️" söylerim

Annem: 👀 biz bu kızı çöpten de almadık niye böyle bakışı

[thenervebible]

books i've (re-)read recently (cuz i've finished everything on my shelves)

asylum piece by anna kavan. finished reading on the tram & had the urge to throw it down the carriage. didnt want it to end. it never does

cities of the red night by bourroughs. still a bit of a head fuck but went down a treat

the body artist by don delilo. she's just like me

the waves by virginia woolf. always knocks the breath right out of me

symbolic exchange & death by Jean baudrillard. dense & draining but somewhat delightful.

harolds end by jt leroy.. not a re-read. friend gifted it to me for my birthday last year & it was one of the only books i had left waiting to be cracked open. downed it in one gulp. stunning little story

[leam1983]

Terminal Affluenza

You haven't glimpsed at something close to Dom Delilo's Cosmopolis until you've visited a Mercedes-Benz dealership.

Keep in mind, their cars are shit. The drive train isn't suited for North-American roads, rubber gaskets in the doors routinely crumble away and engines in the C-Class are particularly temperamental.

Then, you start digging and realize that there's blue-collar roots hidden away behind the polished exterior, exemplified by the fact that most of every business that needs a solid panel van or a wide vehicle that's easily moddable goes for a Sprinter or a Metris. The same goes for my Paratransport service, as I've technically consistently schelpped about town in a Mercedes for the past eight years. As far as their panel vans are concerned, though? Zero complaints. These things are rock-solid workhorses, which is a stylistic anomaly in the world of dealerships that make it a point to wine-and-dine you with a Nespresso. Some even go the extra mile and even splurge for the water-mains-connected type of espresso machine and list "barista skills" as an essential point for any receptionists to be hired.

The thing is, these panel vans are, as I mentioned above, extensively modded. We're talking tool racks, removed seats, vinyl jobs, extra batteries, even mobile workshops - without forgetting the obligatory van-lifers that take the same cars and turn them into compact little apartments on wheels.

Needless to say, that shit ain't resellable. Yet, despite that and every single goddamn year, all the Mercedes dealers in the province get it in their thick, oil-slicked and money-hungry heads that there's gotta be someone out there who might consent to not only a buyback offer, but to the ludicrously expensive task of re-converting their work or pleasure rig into a civilian vehicle - on their own dime.

A Sales rep mentions that to you and you just spend a few seconds blinking dazedly. Jesus Christ, what are these morons putting in their coffee?! Powdered hundred-dollar bills?!

[fantasticalleigh]

LEIGH'S RIDICULOUSLY BIG TBR/TBW LISTS

like i mentioned before i am too busy/hesitant to actually consume a lot of new media (or at least be able to focus on it) so i'm critically behind on so much stuff. don't judge me pls :S lmao

anything in bold is something that i've begun but not finished :P tagging @snow-in-the-desert bc you expressed interest in seeing the lists!

TO READ:

The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood

The Hurricane Wars - Thea Guanzon

Winter's Promise - Christelle Dabos

The Stand - Stephen King

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Work - Louisa May Alcott

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

Dr. Sleep - Stephen King

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Last Duel - Erik Jager

Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

The Great Mortality - John Kelly

Dead by Sunset - Ann Rule

Dracula - Bram Stoker

It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth - Zoe Thorogood

The Great Influenza - John M. Barry

The Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston

The Lottery and other stories - Shirley Jackson

Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry

White Noise - Don DeLilo

Icebreaker - Hannah Grace

She Is a Haunting - Trang Thanh Tran

This Thing Between Us: A Novel - Gus Moreno

Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler

^^ This is an incomplete list--I know there are others but these are the books I've bought over the past couple years and have not yet finished/ready. They are stacked on my desk and around my room, silently accusing me of neglect. I wither in shame. The rest of the list escapes me currently. This also doesn't include the tbrs currently on my e-reader since I can't remember where it is to see what's on there.

MOVIES/MEDIA TO WATCH:

Any Adam Driver movie that isn't on Netflix (House of Gucci, Annette, Paterson etc.) I have seen the Last Duel, Blackkklansman, This is where I leave you, Marriage Story, White Noise, Frances Ha and a few others). I know Ferarri is in theaters right now but I've kind of developed a phobia of theaters since 2020 :S

a ridiculous number of documentaries/video essays on youtube that I do not have the energy to go look for right now

Fall of the House of Usher (I love Mike Flanagan's work but I'm still hooked on Midnight Mass and Daddy Father Prewitt)

The Haunting of Bly Manor (I know everyone was obsessed with this and I meant to watch it but I was reading the Turn of the Screw when it came out and didn't want to get spoiled for it so I avoided it like the plague and finished the book but never got to watching the show)

Blue Eye Samurai

The Beguiled

Ugly Betty (I'm actually on season 2 and it's charming and funny but holy shit the amount of body shaming/slut shaming/ homophobia in this show. definitely a product of its time.)

Anne with an E

Fleabag (never finished it but thought it was amazing)

What we do in the shadows (have seen all but the most current season)

Reservation dogs

The Batman (2023)

Black Swan

The Crown

Band of Brothers

Demon Slayer

Whiplash

Wolf of Wall Street

Birds of Prey

Downton Abbey

Peaky Blinders

Nimona

Drag me to Hell

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Queen Charlotte (halfway through but haven't finished. i hate things that make me cry when i watch them so i have to be in a very specific mood to watch emotional heavy things)

Lady Bird

The Banshees of Inisherin

BARBIE (*ducks thrown rocks* I'll get to it, i SWEAR) (but i'm amazing at avoiding spoilers at this point i still know very little about the movie)

Men

Pearl

The Invisible Man

The Turning

Succession

Suspiria

Promising Young Woman

Shiva Baby

Luca

The Green Knight

Licorice Pizza

Bullet Train

The Menu

Women Talking

Knives Out + Glass Onion (*ducks more thrown rocks*)

Paddington 2!!!!

SHadow and Bone (honestly I lost almost all interest in reading/watching this once I heard the hot villain dies. BOOOO)

Carol

That one newish show with Adam Scott that looks super liminal and sci fi i can't remember the name

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Oppenheimer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Guardians of the Galaxy 3

M3gan

Turning Red

Everything Everywhere All At once

Nope

Barbarian

Just like the book list, I'm sure there's many other titles I'm forgetting to put here. I actually have branched out and watched a fair amount of new movies this year so i'm going to keep it going! and here's one more list just because this is fun

Stuff I watched or read in 2023 that I loved/recommend (with the caveat that not all of this came out in 2023): (and i'm not including obvious stuff like Spider man across the spiderverse)

White Noise

Don't Look Up

Living in the Time of Dying (documentary on Youtube. It is HEAVY on existentialism and the science/data on the current state of climate change. This WILL ruin your day so I'm warning you now. Definitely don't watch it today. This really affected me and I cried for a long time after watching this but it is incredibly important to keep in mind.)

Blackkklansman (i had to watch this with the volume on the lowest setting bc of all the n words being dropped so frequently lmao but goddamn this was so good and funnier than i expected.)

DIMENSION 20: Burrow's End!!!!! As well as The Unsleeping City season 1. Neverafter and A Crown of Candy are probably at the lower end of the list but I still love them. (thank you to @rogueimperator for cluing me onto how amazing D20 and Dropout are. <3 this is a whole new world lol)

Midnight Sun :)

7. Christine and the Queens - Redcar les adorables étoiles Full show on Youtube. I was supposed to see him live in October but he got injured and had to cancel the rest of his tour :( but this album and the video are incredible! Slight warning for semi nudity.

8. Game Changer on Dropout. he's been here the whole time!

9. The 1975 live at Madison Square Garden. I was lucky enough to see them twice this tour with my twin sister and we had an absolutely amazing time. They always put on amazing shows and this particular tour/their latest album meant so much to us. Even our younger brother has come with us for some of these shows so it's something we all share. (Last time they came to Chicago in 2022 the venue was too small so they didn't have the House set with them so we didn't get to see it in action until this year) Sex and The Sound will always be the perfect closers for their shows and I get so emotional every time I hear them. Core memories for sure.

10. Puss in Boots: the last wish. this seems like another obvious answer that i probably could have left off but this gets an honorary mention because our family cat was diagnosed with advanced bone cancer in August, and we had to put him down very soon after that diagnosis. We spent an agonizing week tending to him and cherishing every last second we could get with him. I've been fortunate enough to never experience the death of a pet until this year, and i almost wish we didn't have any pets at all because I've never felt such excruciating grief. He was a fat, grumpy orange boy with beautiful yellow stripes and a little yellow mustache. I was trying to distract myself and found this movie on Netflix and watched it, then recommended it to my sister (who is actually Thomas's owner but we all shared him) though I warned her the movie did deal with themes on mortality. We all watched it together the night before his final vet visit and Tommy was there with us on a comfy pillow. I hope he approved of the movie, because now any time I think of Puss in Boots i think of him. <3

I could add more to this but my eyes are tired and I'm wired up from coffee. I know this is long as hell so sorry but I had fun making it! I'll probably keep coming back to this post in the future to cross out what I've watched.

[zeddertop-bugster]

my current favorite little man

Flint Delilo, aka the unwilling William Afton is literally just some guy. dont even worry bout it.

artfight link in bio, ~zedthebuggy !

[mrasicc]

Bili smo previše daleko srcima,

a delilo nas svega par koraka da budemo blizu.

[aynodndr]

YÜZÜM GÜLMÜYOR...

Hiç kimseye küs değilim..

Yanlış anlıyor baktığım aynalar,,

Yanlış anlıyor insanlar kuşlar,,

Sensiz yüzüm gülmüyor sevdiğim...

Hiç kimseye küs değilim...

Annem uykusuzluktan sanıyor,

Oysa! gittiğin gün batan akşam güneşinin

Hayalidir gözlerimdeki kızıllık....

Sensiz yüzüm gülmüyor sevdiğim....

Hiç kimseye küs değilim, yanlış anlıyor...

Gözlerimi kaçırdığım gözler...

Sokaktaki çocuklar yetimler öksüzler

Seninle çocuk olmuştum ben onlarla

Sensiz yüzüm gülmüyor sevdiğim..

Nisanın sonu geldi,,bende kış bitmedi

Asık suratlı biriyim çiçekler arasında

Baharın da kalbini kırdım..

Ben fallara inanmam

Papatyalar iyi biliyor bunu

Ama güller beni yanlış anladı

Sensiz koklamaya hevesim yok

Sensiz yüzüm gülmüyor sevdiğim....

Hiç kimseye küs değilim

Defalarca söyledim, anlatamadım

Hiç bir denizde batmadı gemilerim..

Yine de susmadı alay edenlerim..

Adını öğrettim komşunun bebeğine

Beni görünce seni heceliyor

Artık bıktı benden

Her gece yıldızları seyrettiğim pencereler

Teselli etmiyor şiir, kalem, kağıt

Delilo, lorke kulağımda birer ağıt..

Sensiz yüzüm gülmüyor sevdiğim..

Simit almıyorum artık, simitçi de şaşkın

Belki de param yok zannediyor..

Hiç kimseye küs değilim

Simitsiz kaldı martılar beni yanlış anlıyor

Sensiz yüzüm gülmüyor sevdiğim..

Hiç kimseye küs değilim

Sadece zor,, çok zor..

Seninle mutlu iken ağlamak kadar

Zor şimdi sensiz gülmek..

Sahteliği sevmedim ömrümce

Neyleyim içimden gelmiyor işte

Ben gülüş kalpazanı değilim ..

Bahçede beyaz kelebekler gördüm

Küçük bir tebessüm düştü dudağıma

O da kısacık ömürleri hatırına..

Ne yapayım geçemiyorum işte

Bana elveda dediğin o yoldan

Hiç kimseye küs değilim

Yollar beni yanlış anladı..

Dön lütfen yıllar da yanlış anlamasın

Sensiz yüzüm gülmüyor sevdiğim...

Şiir Halis Ünlü'ye aittir..