#off ramp

[huariqueje]

Off Ramp  -   Linden Frederick , 2016.

American , b. 1953  -

Oil on canvas , 36 x 36 in.

[idiot69]

Watched "off ramp" 2023 yesterday and holy shit.I mean besides that I liked the story A TRANS JUGGALO PLAYED BY A TRANS ACTOR AND HE'S A MAIN CHARACTER?! NEED EVERYONE (ESPECIALLY TRANSMASCS AND JUGGALOS) TO WATCH THIS ASAP!!!!

[hildyj]

The Leftovers, "Off Ramp"

[firawren]

Pride and Prejudice Chapter 47: The Bennets all deal with Lydia's elopement in different ways

View the full series of P&P chapter memes here

[momentsbeforemass]

Be selfish

(for someone who needs an off ramp)

There are so many things clamoring for our attention.

The latest outrage. The incendiary thing that some public figure said or did. The cause that’s grabbed the spotlight. The trend that’s everywhere. And so much more.

The usual whirlwind of frantic distraction. Demanding our time. Requiring a response.

In other words, welcome to Thursday.

Only this Thursday is…a little different. This Thursday has an off ramp.

There’s something else there. It’s not loud or frantic. It doesn’t demand.

Yet somehow, it draws us in. With its peace.

Not the peace of quiet. The moment’s pause that sometimes happens when the outrage machine accidentally stops to take a breath. Although it is quiet.

It’s an active peace.

A peace that’s grounded in a presence. A peace that’s grounded in the Presence.

This Thursday, be selfish.

Quit pouring out the precious gift of your time, of your attention, of you. At the feet of distractions that will never love you back.

This Thursday, give the gift of you to the One who has always loved you.

Spend Triduum and Easter with the God who loves you enough to sacrifice everything. Just for the chance that you would love Him back.

And if you really miss all of the frantic distraction? If you really need to pour yourself into things that will never repay your time and attention?

The latest version of all of it will be waiting for you on Monday.

Today's Readings

[littlequeenies]

Lovely Ana from Memories of Demri did it again!!! She is a true "detective" finding great Demri photos, videos, information,memories... THANK YOU YOU ARE A STARR!

🎥: Jeff McEwen; February 1, 1991, Off Ramp, Seattle (𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 YouTube channel, timestamp - 45:53). Demri on the bottom right corner.

💬 Krista Kay: “I think it is! She always stood on the right side (if you’re facing the stage). I stood there with her a LOT. I think I see her with her arm around another small brunette. I was wondering if that might be me, but I was taller than her. These two seem the same size. And always dancing – never just standing. This is really special. A thrill to see, even if just a glimpse. So rare and shows her joyful spirit. All smiles and love for the music.”

💬 Stormy Lee Rollins: "That’s her for sure".

(Source)

[randomrichards]

OFF RAMP:

Juggalos road trip

Targets of corrupt sheriff

Messed up families

[1372322]

[yagodichjagodic]

Additional thoughts on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Why all the Bava references? I don't know that any of it is going to land with the intended audience. Especially the super random black and white portion....was it just because Monica Belluci is in the movie (because she's dating Tim Burton)? Also, he couldn't give her a character with any level of depth? Like damn - at least Helena Bonham Carter got some extremely solid roles out of playing Burton's muse for years! Monica Belluci deserves better.

& the whole 'Rust' reference, if it wasn't an intentional defense of Alec Baldwin, was there no one on staff who said, 'hmmm, maybe we don't include this line considering the leading male character from the original film is on trial for murder because of an incident exactly like this? Except he used a gun instead of a grenade.' Seems pretty insane to me.

Just an all around lazy & joyless experience.

The juggalo movie I saw at the Emmaus theatre last night was infinitely better. Go see 'Off Ramp'! It's a trans-positive, found-family, absurdist, off-beat, juggalo road trip movie. Truly an odyssey with tons of heart.

[scarevalue]

Off Ramp review

A consistently entertaining road trip that invites you to be part of the Juggalo family.

[greensparty]

Preview: 2024 Boston Underground Film Festival

The Boston Underground Film Festival returns to the Brattle Theatre (Cambridge, MA) from Wed. March 20 to Sun. March 24, 2024! The fest is now in it's 24th edition celebrating bizarre, weird and alt cinema!

Here at Green’s Party, I’ve been lucky enough to cover the festival since 2016 (the fest took off in 2020 and 2021, and I was unable to attend 2022, but I returned in 2023). Here are some of the highlights of this year’s BUFF:

Wed. March 20:

Opening Night film is the East Coast Premiere of Immaculate, which stars current It Girl Sydney Sweeney as a nun in a new covenant as nightmarish things start happening. The film opens nationwide on Friday from Neon, but BUFF fans get to see the East Coast Premiere! Then it's time for the North American Premiere of the new restoration of the 1990 Hong Kong action film Fatal Termination.

Thurs. March 21:

Day 2 kicks off with a Strange Kindness, which was filmed in Cape Cod and focuses on a small town shaken by a violent crime resulting in a house to house manhunt. This thriller is joined by the VT filmed short The Thaw. Then it's Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (CANADA), a vampire coming-of-age film. Then it's Femme (U.K.), set in London's drag scene where a victim of a homophobic attack encounters the assailant months later in a gay sauna and slowly plots revenge.

Fri. March 22:

The day kicks off at 5PM with The Dunwich Horrors, a short program made up of all New England-based horror stories. Then it's the road movie Off Ramp about some Juggalos making their way through the South and a series of misadventures ensue. Sleep (KOREAN) is about an expectant couple in which the husband is developing a dangerous sleepwalking habit.

Sat. March 23:

One of my favorite portions of BUFF is the Sound + Vision music video program. This year there's 27 music videos including some from The Hives, The Chemical Brothers and more. One of the highlights of 2016 BUFF was Little Sister, directed by Zach Clark (who I interviewed at the fest). Now he's back with the alien road movie The Becomers. A deadly infestation of spiders in a French apartment building is the center of Infested (FRANCE) from Shudder.

Sun. March 24:

In the afternoon there's With Love and a Major Organ (CANADA) set in an alternate world where hearts are made of objects and suppressing emotions, a woman literally gives a suitor her heart and it sets this drama in motion. Omen (BELGIUM) was actually Belgium's submission for Best International Feature to the Academy Awards this past year. It's about a Congolese expat who prepares to return home to present his pregnant girlfriend to his family. Then the Closing Night film is Boy Kills World (GERMANY / SOUTH AFRICA / USA), which boasts the most star power with Bill Skarsgard, Famke Jannsen (who I worked with on Monument Ave), Sharlto Copley and was produced by Sam Raimi. It's about a man who was orphaned as a child and deaf, but he becomes a killing machine and adapts the voice of his favorite video game. The trailer has some very Matrix-like action to it!

For tickets and info on 2024 BUFF

Stay tuned to Green’s Party for my coverage of this year’s fest!

[swampflix]

Lagniappe Podcast: Off Ramp & NOFF 2023

For this lagniappe episode of The Swampflix Podcast, Brandon is joined by Moviegoing with Bill‘s Bill Arceneaux to review the films they caught at the 34th annual New Orleans Film Festival, culminating with the gross-out Juggalo road trip comedy Off Ramp (winner of the Audience Award for Best Louisiana Narrative Feature). 00:00 Welcome 04:22 Burnt Roux06:45 Fck’n Nuts13:19 Chokehole: Drag…

[hildyj]

We were eating dinner, it was nice. And then my husband said something, I said something back. And while I'm talking I'm thinking, "This is so fake. You're in someone else's movie and you're just saying lines." I felt... outside.

The Leftovers, "Off Ramp"

[joemerl]

[ruporas]

getting the attention of the humanoid typhoon

[vasira96]

it's easy to miss if you're able-bodied and extremely sheltered, but the fact that all architectural "accessibility" is designed with the (false) presumption that the disabled person in need of the accommodation will have an able bodied person to assist them, is a glaring oversight and failure of design, in my opinion