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What a god damn screen presence. Ozark wouldn’t have been worth the miserablism were it not for the masterfully crafted Ruth Langmore, and Inventing Anna wouldn’t be worth the sentimental goop were it not for her mesmerizing command of Delvey — a real person, to be sure, but an enigma, a brilliant person whose intricately calculating capacity for reading people didn’t extend to reading herself (and seemingly still doesn’t — Delvey herself is fascinating to watch, the beautiful irony that she becomes a licit and successful socialite only once she’s under house arrest, maybe that’s emblematic of atomization and loneliness world etc etc there’s some theory slop to be done there). Anyway I think I was saying how godforsakenly foxy Julia Garner is and how I need to find me a lady who can do accents. There’s nothing more fun in hanging with homies or your girl and doin voices. Although I think the woman I’m specifically after here is the character Ruth Langmore. My earliest adult romances were with Southern lasses when I lived at the hippie mountain college down in Black Mountain, a brassy lil smart alec with some twang, aye yiy yiy, what a beautiful thing. We drank brown whiskey and PBR every day, moonshine when we could get it, from one of the actual last remaining old school moonshiners who set up around Weaverville and Boone and smoked King Mountains, $3.50 a pack
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Rewatching both arrested development and archer. Miss her 😪☝🏽
Mar 23, 2025
Natalie Portman’s apathy? Iconic. Charles Melton’s innocence? Iconic. Julianne Moore’s lisp? Iconic.
Mar 7, 2024
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snubbed across the board at the Emmy’s - I know I am biased but there is not one gen X female actress fucking it up on screen like her in better call saul or coopers bar. she has range and tact and looks the patriarchal hollywood gaze right in the eye. There’s a reason why Vince Gilligan is obsessed with her
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Sometimes theres an implicit stank put on my city; on the East Coast there’s a kind of New York Supremacy. People think of Baltimore as a failed state backwater, a curiosity at best. It can be tough living here sometimes, to be sure. But Bmore has, however, easily the most vibrant, exciting, original, diverse and ambitious music and art scene of any small city in the East and from what I can tell, in the entirety of the country. At any rate, this breakout hit from Tate Kobang is quintessential Baltimore popular art. The style of minimalism with hard pulsing snare claps and the parsimonious use of sampled groove bits (which, that’s all Bmore Club style, distinctly), obviously the lyrics too and the settings of the video which tell a story without telling a story, it’s genuinely one of my favorite hip-hop songs, and you gotta watch the video.
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This shit is worlds cooler than anything Data for Progress does, no offense to DC homies tryna do the good work for that goofy org
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CANDOR is SPLENDOR. Reject the categories of based and cringe + say exactly the thing that you feel from the gut and heart before you erode those things
Irony is great at the service of jokes and wild pastiche. But don’t let it be a stumbling block. Shoot your shot, be embarrassed, be open like a snow angel and trust the True + Good
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