#matrix reloaded the album

[awwfulsounds]

Matrix Reloaded The Album 2CD set 2003 (x)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

P.O.D. - Sleeping Awake

[heavenboy09]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU

THE MOST LEGENDARY & ICONIC CANDIAN 🇨🇦 ACTOR & MUSICIAN 🎶 IN CINEMA 🎥 & ENTERTAINMENT OF THE WHOLE WORLD 🌎 IN HISTORY

Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 2, 1964, the son of Patricia (née Taylor), a costume designer and performer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr. His mother is English, originating from Essex. His American father is from Hawaii, and is of Native Hawaiian, Chinese, English, and Portuguese descent. Reeves' paternal grandmother is of Hawaiian and Chinese descent. His mother was working in Beirut when she met his father, who abandoned his wife and family when Reeves was three years old. Reeves last met his father on the Hawaiian island of Kauai when he was 13.

He is a Canadian actor and musician. He is the recipient of numerous accolades in a career on screen spanning four decades. In 2020, The New York Times ranked him as the fourth-greatest actor of the 21st century, and in 2022 Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Reeves is known for his leading roles in action films, his amiable public image, and his philanthropic efforts.

Born in Beirut and raised in Toronto, he made his acting debut in the Canadian television series Hangin' In (1984), before making his feature-film debut in Youngblood (1986). Reeves had his breakthrough role in the science-fiction comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), and he reprised his role in the sequel Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991). He gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama My Own Private Idaho (1991) and established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break (1991) and Speed (1994). Following several box-office disappointments, Reeves's performance in the horror film The Devil's Advocate (1997) was well received. Greater stardom came with his role as Neo in The Matrix (1999); Reeves became the highest paid actor for a single production for reprising the role in its sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions (both 2003).

He played John Constantine in Constantine (2005) and starred in the romantic drama The Lake House (2006), the science fiction thriller The Day the Earth Stood Still and the crime thriller Street Kings (both 2008). He made his feature-film directorial debut with Man of Tai Chi (2013). Following another commercially down period, Reeves made a career comeback by playing the titular assassin in the action John Wick film series (2014–present). He voiced Duke Caboom in Toy Story 4 (2019) and Johnny Silverhand in the video game Cyberpunk 2077 (2020) as well as its expansion. He also reprised his roles of Ted in Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) and Neo in The Matrix: Resurrections (2021). Reeves reunited and toured with his band Dogstar in support of their first album in over two decades, Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees (2023).

In addition to his career as an actor and musician, Reeves is the co-writer and creator of the BRZRKR franchise, which started with the original comic book (2021–2023) and since expanded to include numerous spin-offs, including the BRZRKR spin-off The Book of Elsewhere with China Miéville. An avid motorcyclist, Reeves is the co-founder of the custom manufacturer ARCH Motorcycle, and is a co-founder of the production company Company Films with his associate Stephen Hamel.

PLEASE WISH THIS LEGENDARY ICONIC CANADIAN ACTOR & MUSICIAN 🇨🇦🎶

IN ENTERTAINMENT IN ALL OF CINEMA 🎥

YOU KNOW HIM

YOU LOVE HIS MOVIES 🎥 YOU GREW TO ALL OF HIS GREATEST MOVIES 🎥

& THE LADIES CANT HELP BUT FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM.

THE ONE

& ONLY

MR. KEANU CHARLES REEVES 👨🏻 AKA NEO , THE ONE OF WARNER BROS PICTURES, THE MATRIX 🟢 & LIONSGATE PICTURES, JOHN WICK👨🏻 & PARAMOUNT PICTURES , SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG ⚫🦔 OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 🔵🦔

HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU MR. REEVES & HERE'S TO MANY MORE YEARS TO COME #KeanuReeves #BillandTed #Speed #TheMatrixTrilogy #JohnWick #SonicTheHedgeHog #Ted #Neo #JohnWick #ShadowTheHedghog

[muutos]

𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙶𝙰𝙽'𝚂 𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙵𝙾𝚁𝚃 𝙻𝙸𝚂𝚃 ━━━━━━━━━━━━

Comfort food(s): chuletas con arroz amarillo y gandules, fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, ribs, poor man's huevos rancheros. Comfort drink(s): monster (lol, zero ultra), dr. pepper, coke zero. Comfort movie(s): house of 1000 corpses, quentin tarantino's catalogue, the matrix reloaded, the jungle book, lord of the rings, john wick, speed, bill & ted, tank girl, the resident evil movies, fight club, shark tale, the dark knight, zombieland, cinderella Comfort show(s): how i met your mother, star trek the original series, trailer park boys, the punisher, big brother us, hoarders, rocko's modern life, criminal minds, futurama Comfort clothing:my wu tang clan, or wu tang forever hoodie.. my 3x terzo (ghost) shirt, my snake skin pants, my canvas vest with a billion pockets, my grandpa's old denim jacket, my 13 year old red doc martens. Comfort song(s): mutter, spring, and rosenrot by rammstein (or all of rammstein). hypnotize by system of a down... probably all of disturbed's the sickness... uuuuuhhh, the x&y album by coldplay, probably... eminem in general, gwen stefani's let me reintroduce myself - i love myself today by bif naked Comfort book(s): fight club, the silver eyes, speak, ren & stimpy marvel comic run... Comfort game(s): until dawn, new super mario bros, new super mario bros wii, new super mario bros deluxe, smash brothers melee/brawl/ultimate, luigis mansion / dark moon/3, animal crossing (all of it), cuphead is getting up there, mario party superstars / 7 / and super mario party switch... the entire pokemon rpg catalogue, sims 2 double deluxe, fortnite, annnnnnnd five nights at freddy's THREE !!

Tagged by: no one i stole it. Tagging: you

[aaliyahunleashed]

#OnThisDay January 31, 2001

ABC News shares that Aaliyah is casted in the movies Matrix and Aaliyah fans rejoice.

I remember Aaliyah fans (during this time) excited and just all over the message boards sharing their love. We were already thrilled at the news of her impending release of the much-anticipated third album, and this news served as an additional delight for us.

Filming for 'Matrix Reloaded' would begin March 1st 2001. Tragically, she (and 8 others) passed away in August 2001, and regrettably, the amount of footage recorded for her character (Zee) was insufficient for the production team to retain her in the film. Consequently, all scenes associated with Aaliyah's character had to be reshot, and the role was subsequently recast to Nona Gaye, the daughter of Marvin Gaye, for both The Matrix Reloaded and in The Matrix Revolutions.

[lboogie1906]

Nona Aisha Gaye (September 4, 1974) is a singer, former fashion model, and retired actress. The daughter of singer Marvin Gaye and maternal granddaughter of jazz musician Slim Gaillard, she began her career as a vocalist in the early 1990s. As an actress, she is known for her portrayal of Zee in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. She provided the voice of the unnamed Hero Girl in The Polar Express.

Her debut album Love for the Future was released on Atlantic Records in October 1992. It featured the top-20 hit “I’m Overjoyed,” as well as the single “The Things That We All Do for Love.” She was named one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People. She signed with Ford Modeling Agency in 1994 and became the new face of Armani.

She both collaborated with and dated singer-songwriter Prince. She recorded at least four songs with him. A duet, “1000 Hugs and Kisses” and solo track, “Snowman,” are thus far officially unreleased, but have managed to make their way into circulation amongst fans. Another duet, “Love Sign,” was released on the 1-800-NEW-FUNK compilation album in 1994, along with another track with no Prince contribution, “A Woman’s Gotta Have It.” She provided backing vocals on “We March” for Prince’s 1995 album The Gold Experience and on the title track to the Girl 6 soundtrack. Gaye has candidly admitted that during this time she had experienced a long, personal battle with drug abuse, which she successfully overcame in 1996. She starred in a Prince-produced European TV special called The Beautiful Experience.

She appeared alongside other artists to re-record and release her father’s single “What’s Going On” to benefit AIDS research. She began her acting career, debuting in Ali.

She worked with R. Kelly on two as-yet-unreleased singles, “Work It” and “Just Because,” which interpolates the Gap Band’s “Oops Up Side Your Head.” She was added to the cast of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

In 2008, three tracks by her appeared for sale at AmieStreet.com in EP form. Titled Language of Love, it contains the tracks “Quarter to Three” and “Midas Lover,” along with the title track. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[marimayscarlett]

Thank you my dearest @dandysnob 🤍

Five songs I'm in love with right now 🎶💕

Six albums I'm listening to 🎧🫶🏻

George Michael - Twenty Five

Rammstein - Herzeleid

David Guetta - One more Love

Soundtrack of Priscilla Queen of the desert

Soundtrack of Matrix Reloaded

Björk - Debut

No pressure tags for @m---e---l @wizzardclown @gothtoast @vulnerant-omnes @swampgiggles @flowers-and-fichte @wieder-da @morgaroooo @musically--declined 😌

Tagged by @userparamore and @hidekomoon to post 5 songs I'm loving right now. Thank you so much! 🧡💙

Famous Last Words - My Chemical Romance Midnight - Creeper Thick Skull - Paramore A Grave Mistake - Ice Nine Kills Lost it All - Black Veil Brides

And also tagged to post 6 albums I've been listening to. <3 :)

no pressure tags: @dandysnob @iamnotawomanimagod @blackllghtburns @haylewilliams @bloodlust-kid @vinmauro

[fght-ff-yr-dmns]

So, welcome to 2023

I’m here to make you feel old by listing the following things that will be celebrating their 20th anniversary this year.

Films Lost in Translation The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King The Matrix Reloaded X-Men 2 Pirates of the Caribbean Finding Nemo Holes Bruce Almighty Freaky Friday

Music Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism Brand New – Deja Entendu Blink-182 – Untitled Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue Radiohead – Hail to the Thief The Darkness – Permission to Land The Postal Service – Give Up Jay-Z - The Black Album The Strokes - Room on Fire

TV Debut The O.C.   Arrested Development Nip/Tuck One Tree Hill Peep Show Punk’d

Video Games The Simpsons: Hit and Run Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Call of Duty Manhunt Tony Hawks Underground Final Fantasy X-2 Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

[southernartcritic-blog]

Inventiveness, human ingenuity, and imagination are far more important than an expensive bag of cheap parlor tricks.

“The Matrix Resurrections” is a mixed bag that is more heavily packed with computer graphics and special effects than human content.

The Harold Doc Edgerton reference in the scene with the bullet through the apple did great justice to the father of stroboscopic photography’s original composition; this was my favorite combination of technology/filmmaking/art history within the fourth installment in “The Matrix” film franchise.

In a very similar way to waiting years for the new Tool album, high expectations were placed by me on such a long awaited film. In some ways “The Matrix Resurrections” satisfied these anticipations for something inventively extraordinary, such as the use of special effects combined with computing power.

However, where the film let me down was by omitting the return of Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving in exchange for replacement representations in a way that did not add up to justifying the need for such a switch. Antiquating two vital characters’ original representations to post-production archive footage is a bold move when the replacement characters have flimsy character development. Having Fishburne and Weaving reprise their roles as Morpheus and Agent Smith would have provided much needed grounding to help taper down the scattered premise. The plot line also seemed to have an attention deficit component that wherein it is nearly incoherent and overshadowed by a preoccupation with special effects and computerized enhancements. The collaboration with a video gaming outfit is certainly unmistakable to miss. Although, the augmented reality feel is certainly in line with all of the recent metaverse hype in general.

On the other hand, I still have the scoring snippet of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” and the imagery that accompanied it with the blue pill and red pill reference bouncing around in my head, and that was another area in the film that did its job very successfully!

Lana and Lilly Wachowski do a great job diversifying their film actors to an extent that it seems a huge amount of focus and energy was placed on the task of making the film as culturally and gender diverse as possible. If only the colorful array of cast members could have been given a richer script and more dialogue to bring each role to life. Often each character helps to paint in a backstory from previous films in the series, but it never culminates to a level that weaves it all together into a gratifying climax. Instead every enticement is a broken shoe string that falls lifeless back into the box. The dead strings never come to life enough to animate the sneakers to a kinetic rhythm that gets the stories cornucopia of dynamic fruits into the same basket. The viewer leaves the film screening with a bin of smoldering half-eaten fries instead of a contemplative mind pondering over the mysteries of the film and relishing over a picture that left one reeling for more. The film tried too hard to make an embedded political statement that it lost its humanity in place of punchy graphics and commercially polished one-liners. A precarious undertone permeated the film atmosphere and undermined any potential for something more meaningful to occur that could have brought it to a transcendent level that all great films reach to mark their rightful places in the historically timeless film genre shared by the likes of “Cloud Atlas” and “Matrix Reloaded” for example. The one two punch combo of “The Matrix” and “Matrix Reloaded” did the idea justice. In my humble opinion the series could have ended at its strongest with the first two films. The latter two films have been over hyped lucrative fluff pieces void of the ingredients that brought the Plato’s Cave concept inspiration to the pinnacle of mass entertainment meets philosophy.

The film is worth viewing at least two times and has some key moments that live up to the lineage of the great film franchise, but fails to fill its over two hour running time with a captivating story. Even the main actors who are highly respected by me, are not given a high enough caliber of content material to work with, which fails to allow Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss to shine as they truly can.

I still remember how satisfying it was to screen the first “Matrix” film in the theatre in 1999. It seems prophetic in hindsight upon contemplating all that has come to pass on our world’s stage and in our actual lives since then. Perhaps the most recent installment of “The Matrix” is extremely true to the chaos found now in our modern lives and so in this regard it holds a mirror up to realize this all too well.

In this unprecedentedly crazy time period, in our history in the making, we need more truth serum instead of more hollowly glitzy puff pieces. Feeling slow and meticulously drawn out similar to the film “Inception” only without the unique and well executed plot hobbles this film in all the places where it should have accelerated to give it the edge it needed to pull off such a multifaceted story. Compound this short failing with the budget expenditure, and one begins to wish more thought had been realized in the final film version than money spent in burnishing the film with a sleek patina to enshrine not much within. The nothingness embedded within the subtext of this film makes some deceptively clever 1 minute advertising commercials seem like Rembrandt paintings.

“The Matrix Resurrections” felt more like a new video game flexing its superior graphics capabilities in 2021, but it lacks the soul of a game like Castlevania 4, which used the graphics of its time to tell a captivating video game story on the Super Nintendo platform back in the early 1990’s. Now, graphics are better than ever, but where graphics technology excels, soulful imagination is lacking. Inventiveness, human ingenuity, and imagination are far more important than an expensive bag of cheap parlor tricks.

—Cavia Platolopogus

[exobrasiloficial]

If i was part of the creative team behind sm groups id go full sci-fi, like straight up. Instead of album repackage it would be called album reloaded like the second matrix movie, then xenomorph type of aliens and ofc robot apocalypse, etc etc

[earlgraytay]

while I’m on a tear, can I just say how annoying it is that Furious Angels is such a good album but the lyrics are... no, bad, try again?

I’ve never seen The Matrix Reloaded, but I found Furious Angels through grooveshark a million years ago and I love every bit of the music (especially the title song and Clubbed to Death)

but the lyrics are such... creepy possessive sadboy shit that I veer between “amused tolerance” and “ugh stop” 

and I’ve tried listening to the soundtrack version but it sounds wrong without the vocals lmao

[camb99-cbmi6]

Thank you to my wonderful friend @stardust-road for tagging me to share four songs I've been listening to recently, in no particular order my chosen four are:

Chateau - Rob Dougan

Europa - Globus

Navras - Juno Reactor, Don Davis

On Her Majesty's Secret Service - David Arnold, Propellerheads

If you are happy to I tag: @karominoes, @themrkitty, @sparkga, @l1nks-world

[randomvarious]

Fluke - “Reeferendrum” Northern Exposure 2 by Sasha & John Digweed 1997 Breaks / Big Beat

***Song starts at 43:27 and ends at 47:33***

There’s never really been an electronic music group quite like Fluke. For one, there were two sides to them. One was remixes. They remixed all the top-tier artsy electronic and synthpop acts from Björk, to Tears for Fears, to Frankie Goes to Hollywood, to Talk Talk, to New Order, to Yello, to Simple Minds. Rolling Stones and Smashing Pumpkins, too. The other side of Fluke though was their own original creations. See, most electronic acts mostly stay in a single lane, but Fluke was so good that they moved wherever the British electronic winds appeared to be blowing, and convincingly. They were like electronic music chameleons.  Whatever they dipped their fingers in turned out to be high-quality material, which really is nothing short of remarkable. Hard to think of another group that genre-hopped like they did.

Fluke started out as acid housers, but they transitioned to downtempo and trip hop vibes, and then in ‘97 found themselves making breaks and big beat tunes. However, despite being on a major like Virgin, they couldn’t move anywhere near the same amount of units in the U.S. as their sudden breaks and big beat peers like The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, and The Crystal Method. Still, their breaks and big beat period was just as good as those groups’, if not better. And if it wasn’t better, Fluke was still artistically superior to those groups because it’s not like they spent their whole career making just big beat and breaks tracks. Anyway, for their efforts, they ended up in soundtracks for sci-fi movies (The Matrix Reloaded was a big one) and videogames.

World-class DJ Sasha was a guy who seemed to pick up whatever it was that Fluke was putting down, too, pretty much from the beginning. No matter what genre Fluke seemed to be immersing themselves in, Sasha was finding a way to put them in his mixes. After Fluke released their 1997 album, Risotto, Sasha, with DJ partner John Digweed, included one of the album’s songs, “Reeferendrum,” on their own mix, Northern Exposure 2. 

“Reeferendrum” is one of those well-crafted, deep, aquatic numbers. The original version is fast, but for NE2, Sasha and Digweed lowered its BPM some. It’s not trance or progressive house, either, which is what the NE2 mix essentially is, but the song is definitely layered like a trance or progressive house tune, with atmospheric spaciness. The main difference is that, while “Reeferendrum” slowly builds like a trance or progressive house track, it certainly doesn’t peak like one. However, in this mix, it does end up serving as a nice, chilly bridge to other trance and progressive house songs. 

The flutteriness of the soft, harp-and-chime-like, intertwining synth melodies that bookend this tune are ultimately what give it its definitively wavy, aquatic feel. But once those drop out, we’re exposed to a vast, open expanse that sees Fluke continuously adding new things to the song, be it little, varying hints of acid, another drum break layer, hi-hats, orchestral string swells, or a distant, bleating guitar. It’s like plumbing the depths of the ocean and each new sound you encounter is a species of plant or animal you hadn’t seen before. And each one plays their part in producing a diverse environment that exists in harmony, just like an ocean.

Fuck, that last sentence feels cheesy as hell. Oh well, not deleting it. Let’s just ratchet up the cringe then, shall we? You know what lives in the ocean? Fucking fluke live in the ocean! You know what Fluke’s tunes have never been? A fluke!

OK, I’m done. Byeeeeee. 

[emerald-studies]

The wise  Cornel West

Early Years & Education

Cornel Ronald West was born on June 2, 1953, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Cornel West and his three siblings grew up in Sacramento, California, where they were raised by a mother who taught elementary school and a father who worked as a civilian administrator for the U.S. Air Force.

Harvard & Princeton

In 1970, West started attending Harvard University. Just three years later, he graduated magna cum laude with a major in near Eastern languages and civilization. West then enrolled at Princeton University. By 1980, he had earned both a master's degree and a doctorate in philosophy from Princeton.

West began his working career as a lecturer. The schools he first taught at include Harvard, New York City's Union Theological Seminary, the University of Paris and Yale University's Divinity School. West accepted a religion professorship at Princeton University in 1988. Following a six-year stint at Princeton, he chose to become a professor of African-American studies at Harvard. A 2001 blow-up with Harvard's then-president, Lawrence H. Summers, ended with West decamping to Princeton. In 2011, West opted to return to Union Theological Seminary.

Cornel West Books

In 1982, West's Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity was published. During the rest of the 1980s and early '90s, West brought out more books that touched on philosophy and religion, such as Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture (1988) and The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought (1991).

West's writing also addressed racial and sociopolitical phenomena. The essays in the best-selling Race Matters (1993) focused on the plight of struggling African Americans. West's major written works have since included The Future of the Race (1997), written with Henry Louis Gates Jr., Democracy Matters (2004) and a memoir entitled Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud (2009).

Politics and Activism

West's political activism dates back to his childhood, when he participated in civil rights demonstrations with his family in Sacramento. While West was teaching at Yale University, he took part in protests against South Africa's apartheid regime, and was subsequently arrested.

Controversial Views on Obama

In terms of political affiliation, West's loyalty lies with the Democratic Socialists; he has been a member of that party since 1982. West campaigned for Barack Obama during his first presidential run, but then deemed Obama "a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats" (true honestly) in 2011. However, during the 2012 presidential election, West stated that he preferred Obama to Mitt Romney. Still, West continued his scathing critique on President Obama, calling him "a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency, a national security presidency," in a 2014 interview.

Support for Bernie Sanders

In 2016 West supported the Democratic presidential candidacy of Bernie Sanders. When Sanders exited the race, West went on to support Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.

The Matrix Franchise, More Books

In 2003, West made his big screen debut in The Matrix Reloaded. He also appeared in the final film of the Matrix trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions (2003). West's other creative outlets include the recording of spoken word albums. Some of his work was featured on Terence Blanchard's Choices, winner of France's Grand Prix award for best jazz album of 2009.

In 2010, West began co-hosting the radio show Smiley & West with Tavis Smiley. The two also co-wrote The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto (2012). Other more recent works include Pro+Agonist: The Art of Opposition (2012) and Black Prophetic Fire (2014). (source)

[joecial-distancing]

2019 in review in review:

A few years ago I started tracking yearly goals, books read, movies watched etc in a year, along with overview blurbs, in private posts. End of 2019/beginning of 2020 I was really frazzled/burned out about a lot of stuff and just never finished up making the thing. 8 months later, got the urge to read back what I’d got done, then figured I’d maybe go ahead and see about finishing. 

Media tracking below the break. thoughts/blurbs written in 2020 italicized, 2019 not.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_____________________________~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Didn’t do so hot on explicit personal goals, but had a lot of stuff go ok around them this year.

School’s been fine/better than fine.

Job’s probably the biggest failing. Still with same job, haven’t made the firm moves to jump off, dragging my feet too much on exploring stuff w/ Columbia/NASA GISS.

Did not get better with covid, lol

Dating life still non-existent, but I’ve registered on apps, gotten more comfortable with selfies, improved general social life dramatically, been flirted with, updated my wardrobe, and generally started to get comfortable accepting that I’m a hot person.

Somehow got extremely better during covid.

Books

Grant (finished)

We stan a taurus legend

Guy was good at exactly one job, and was fortunate enough to have been in the right place/right time to get to do it.

Mort (discworld)

Definitely best discworld I’ve gotten to so far.

Don Quixote p. II

Really entertaining in a way that part 1 wasn’t; I was shocked how much the meta element landed for me.

Consider the Lobster (DFW collection)

had zero context on who DFW is/was when I read, and still don’t exactly tbh. Wanted to wait for a pause in The Discourse before diving into more of him, but dunno if I’m ever going to get that.

Crime and Punishment (revisited)

Weirdly didn’t get much more out of this than I did the first time I’d read it

Better Than Sex (HST Gonzo papers)

Xerox/widespread fax accessibility opening citizen access to mass media in a manner really reminiscent of what social media would go on to do at a much larger scale. Has a much more deliberate narrative arc than the other gonzo papers collections, also has that excellent HST richard nixon eulogy

The Brothers Karamazov

SPQR

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Didion collection)

Pet Sematary

Not my favorite King, but not bad

Sourcery (discworld)

still funny/charming, but Mort really made clear/reminded me how much the hapless sadsack Rincewind mold of protagonist wears on me after a while.

The Devil's Teeth

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Liked it a lot more once I realized it was doing a Fear and Loathing thing.

Homage to Catalonia

This should be the Orwell that gets taught in schools. Make it a followup to All Quiet on the Western Front or something, jeez.

Lyndon Johnson I

Having now finished all of them, this one’s probably the least-interesting but sets up a bunch of important context that the others still then feel the need to retread.

The Razor's Edge

Recommended to me as a “white guy discovers eastern mysticism” book, but also is more interesting in its treatment of that than I’d expected (helps it was written in the 40s). 

Cat's Cradle

There’s a part in this where Vonnegut’s making fun of people who try to bond with strangers over being Hoosiers, and my dumbass immediate thought was “ooh, Vonnegut’s a hoosier? Me too!”

Lyndon Johnson II

Robert Caro felt compelled to apologize for spending so much words lionizing Coke Stevens, segregationist opponent to Johnson’s senate run. His goal was pretty clearly to show lbj’s lack of campaign charisma by contrast, definitely definitely overcommitted in his own narrativising.

Libra

I want to go back to this after reading some more De Lillo.

Gravity's Rainbow

This book absolutely kicked my ass

Overstuffed and referential in a specific way that really keeps me hooked in instead of put off. When I learn about some piece of cultural context that I retroactively recognize as being referenced in this, I want to go back and reread the entire thing.

From Caligari to Hitler

Kind of fails both as film criticism and cultural analysis, but absolutely made me want to run for the hills when considering current relationship between mainstream movies and demands of pop culture.

I took a class on Weimar cinema in undergrad that I now realize was probably biting pretty heavily from this and never once referenced it.

Movies

Venom

Movie itself is not as fun as the Tom Hardy hype coverage. PG13 was the absolute worst space to aim for, PG- or R- versions of this could have been a blast.

Harryhauser Argonauts

Was tripping when I put this on, and it was all kinds of fun.

2001: a Space Oddyssey

First time seeing this, all-time classic for a reason!

A Good American (the NSA doc)

Dr. Strangelove

Mel Brooks History of the World p. I

Not my favorite Brooks, best joke was at the beginning.

In Bruges

Had been a while since I saw a proper dark comedy.

Spiderverse

Fukkin awesome!

Visually great, and extremely better than usual superhero stuff for being aimed at PG instead of PG-13.

You Only Live Twice

Highlander (Revisited)

I watched The Old Guard on netflix recently and it mostly just made me wish I was watching Highlander instead, because at least Highlander knows exactly how goofy it is

Moonraker

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Much like The Shining, I though this would have been 100% spoiled for me by cultural osmosis, but turns out it wasn’t, and even the scenes I had seen *totally landed* in-context still.

Kung Fu Hustle

Ichi the Killer

Really gross, really fun

Matrix Reloaded (watched thru highway scene) (Revisited)

The highway scene was not nearly as cool as I remembered it being.

John Wick 3*

Probably dumbest plot of all of them, best choreography. I like how every single fight had its own distinct flavor. “Knife museum fight” “horse fight” “halle berry dogs fight” 

Akira

A classic

Pet Sematary * (ugh, bad)

Why can’t john lithgow be in good movies anymore

The Revenant

MCU Spiderman

Fuck this was awful.

MCU Spiderman 2*

Really weird, complete Rorschach Test of a movie: it’d be totally valid to read into this that global warming is Fake News, for instance.

Lmao this was completely awful

Rites

Dredd (non-stallone)

oh hey Lena Headey’s in this

For All Mankind!

Watched in honor of moon landing anniversary

Lion King *

Watched it way too stoned, was like dark side of the moon + wizard of oz except instead it’s a lion king script reading + nature footage edited for lip syncing.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood *

Many scenes of very long setups for really stupid shaggy dog jokes, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t. I do kinda want to rewatch now knowing more about manson, which I knew pretty much nothing about beforehand

Blowout

A good john lithgow movie

also I think I like travolta in things.

Lord of War

A Good cage movie

I like when Eamon Walker shows up in stuff.

Taxi Driver

A classic

Snowpiercer

Watched in a bar with only one speaker working, which is the correct way to watch. Weirder and funnier than I thought it was going to be, which still doesn’t make it good, but,

dbz big green dub

Exorcist III

Brad Dourif just tearing it apart

Deep Red (argento)

Suspiria (1977)

Watched the remake in 2020, which was ok, but nothing tops the Goblin score.

Elf Bowling

Thanks, Gnome

Parasite *

Interesting to me that this one seems poised to hang around people’s good esteem for a while

TV

FMA: B

Rick & Morty

Saw some episodes, generally pretty funny, some misanthropy that’s probably appealing to a certain type of teen al a something like House, but ultimately I don’t totally Get the intensity of discourse about it.

Leterkenny

Mob Psycho 100

One Punch Man

Deadwood

Watchmen

Only watched like half of it. Was playing around with a lot of hefty imagery/thematics, but didn’t really seem ready to rise above playing (tho also I feel like it’s weird on some level to *expect* them to rise above that in the first place)

Music

New Avantasia

HEALTH/ show

lol remember concerts

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard/ show

Just learned about King Gizz in 2019 and got completely obsessed with them. I don’t tend to expand my music selection very readily, and a lot of what I currently *do* know is old/inactive stuff, so it was/is incredibly exciting to have an active group with good momentum just immediately win me over like that.

Mistimed the edibles and ended up with a really good finale and a really long subway ride home.

New Yeasayer

Sad they split up

Steve Wilson Tull remixes

Aqualung’s a good album and the sound mixing’s kinda bad, so I liked this project.

Stonefield

Opened for Gizzard. Really good as studying music

Video Games

Civ VI: Gathering Storm

Hades

Turns out Supergiant’s design proclivities all work *extremely well* on a roguelike

Baba is You

Untitled Goose Game

Cute, if maybe a bit overhyped

finally fucking finished Pillars of Eternity

Had fun with it, but too long, and really dour for how long it is.

Pillars II

Kinda drifted off it eventually, but I do genuinely like that the flavor of the fantasy is colonial era rather than medieval.

There’s a Balancing Bastard Factions element where it’s like the writers are just being smartasses after a while. Having to go extremely out of their way to make siding with colonizers seem like a competitive option.

Pokemon shield

Cuphead

pisses me off, which was a nice outlet when I was stranded by flight cancellations during thanksgiving

Celeste

Also very difficult, but really easy to stay patient with, which is nice.

Disco Elysium

None of the discourse made me want to play this, but people talking about the mechanical stuff it did got me extremely interested. Mostly Delivered IMO.

Breath of the Wild

You can approach the nodes of the main quest in the order you choose, and the second one I chose made ninjas start fucking spawning everywhere when I’m just trying to explore, and there’s no way to make it stop. May go back to it one day.

Podcasts

Relentless Picnic Patreon feed

The treats really helped me start distinguishing individual personalities, compared to the regular eps.

Picnic Discord!

<3

FatT Counterweight

Fun, but also I think Mechs are not my shit.

FatT Spring in Hieron/ end of that particular world

8 months since I’ve last tuned into FatT. ah well.

Law School

He’s in everythiiiing!

You Must Remember This: Manson family

*There’s* the context

Misc.

Kindle train guy

Times Square sleeping guy + kids taking selfies w/ him

toddler singing along after Psycho killer (a, ya, ya ya, ya)

drunk and dragged to a drag show

Central park football family

Soft Steel Drum Subway Busker

Weird old lady going to grand central for oysters

2018 in review (cards):

MySelf (CC)

Self: Tower

Blocked: 10 Cups

Ethereal/subconscious: 8 Swords

Material: 3 Swords

Past: Justice

Future: Page Wands

Attitude: Sun

External: King Swords

Hopes/Fears: 5 Coins

Trajectory: High Priestess

Also Self:

Hierophant

7 Cups

7 Coins

Blind Spot:

(self & others): 5 cups    ||    (others not self): High Priestess

(self not others): Moon   ||    (nobody): 3 Cups

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Dr. Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is a philosopher, political activist, social critic, author, and public intellectual. The grandson of a Baptist minister, he focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society and how people act and react to their “radical conditionedness”. A radical democrat and democratic socialist, he draws intellectual contributions from multiple traditions, including Christianity, the African American church, Marxism, neopragmatism, and transcendentalism. Among his most influential books are Race Matters and Democracy Matters.

He is a third-party candidate in the 2024 presidential election. After declaring his run with the People’s Party in June 2023, a week afterward, he announced he was instead seeking the nomination of the Green Party. In October 2023, he announced he was again switching his affiliation and running as an independent candidate.

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He co-hosted a radio program with Tavis Smiley, called Smiley and West. He has been featured in several documentaries, and made appearances in Hollywood films such as The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, providing commentary for both films. He has made several spoken words and hip hop albums, and due to his work, has been named MTV’s Artist of the Week.

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