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A talkative taxi passenger, a UFO buff who insists the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a JFK conspiracy theorist, an elderly anarchist who befriends a man trying to rob his house, a television set collector, and a hipster woman trying to sell a Madonna pap smear. (taken from Wikipedia) Slacker is a movie unlike any others that I’ve seen, following the various characters within for no more than a few minutes each before seamlessly cycling to the next. Every few minutes you realize how far removed you are from where you’d just been before, and it’s incredible. The whole movie is available for free on YouTube, linked above.
Jan 13, 2022
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go watch slacker. i am a big linklater head but it still took me a long time to get around to this. a movie about walking around and talking, anarchism, pap-smears, and austin subcultures. dirty and low budget in all the best ways. if you love the before trilogy i think you will love this!!!
Feb 12, 2025
Great look at the culture of young adults in the 90 and a fabulous debut by Richard Linklater
Oct 31, 2024
We're a bisexual nation living in denial, all because of a bunch of nerds. totally ambitious exercise by an auteur. this movie saw all culture of the last twenty years more or less going insane, and ran with it. in all its schlocky needle drops and all. a lot of talk about this movie talks about "prescience" which I dislike much less than the idea that this movie is a scalpel into the heart of American paranoia much like a Philip K Dick novel if he understood Green Day. It's an incredibly difficult film to sit through all the way, partially because it feels at first glance incredibly Bush-era, but I don't think that makes it worse. Utterly relentless, but I think that's the point in what might be maddening. genuinely one of the most futuristic films ever made. You can watch it on Tubi RN!
Aug 11, 2024
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This is my favorite book of all time. I have read it at least once a year since I first discovered it, which was by stumbling across this quote: “Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
Jan 13, 2022
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This is a photobook by Richard Billingham, and one of my favorites. It’s a very raw documentation of his family, and I find the brutal honesty of the photographs to be very compelling. There are a whole host of videos on YouTube of people flipping through the book since it is expensive and relatively hard to find, but the one I linked above is the best, despite misspelling his last name as “Bellingham”.
Jan 13, 2022
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This album by Reanimator (not to be confused with Re-Animator, which is a British thrash metal band that for some reason shares the same artist page on Spotify) is a beautifully produced, sample-heavy instrumental record that I’ve listened to countless times. I highly recommend listening to it straight through, in order.
Jan 13, 2022