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BRIAN ENO. OBLIQUE STRATEGIES

the New York mayoral debate was one of the funniest things I have witnessed in a long time when divorced from the horror

Curtis Sliwa is the sort of character the writers of The Sopranos wish they had thought of first

Cuomo was like a rotting dead salmon on the debate stage and I know all moderates had to go outside and cry after that one. Mamdani’s holding back giggles every time his opponents spoke because what they kept saying was so utterly ridiculous or lackluster they lowered the bar for him to subterranean levels. Cuomo was fighting for his fucking life on that stage because he was being beaten into a pulp, Mamdani was fighting for his life because he was on the verge of hysterical laughter and Silwa has been fighting for his life on the mean streets of New York for all of his 71 years, apparently.

debate host: Have you ever purchased marijuana from a dispensary?

Mamdani: Yes and the longer this debate goes on the more I wish I had smoked that joint before I got here.

Cuomo, who famously prefers uppers: No.

Sliwa: BACK IN THE 70S THERE USED TO BE THIS BROAD WHO STOOD OUTSIDE OF RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL AND SOLD BROWNIES, I ATE 3 OF THEM AND ENDED UP IN THE TRUNK OF A DODGE CHARGER IN RENO NEVADA. AFTER I WAS SHOT 5 TIMES IN 1992, SHE SHOWED BACK UP AND STARTED TRYING TO HAND ME ONE OF THEM, I SAID “DID THE GAMBINOS SEND YOU? ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?” SHE SAID NO AND SHE BECAME MY 5TH WIFE.

The Sting (1973) for @effervescentdragon

just overheard my dad on the phone going “yeah, i’d be more than happy to buy her daughter off of you, how much would you be willing to trade her for?” and got Very Worried for a second before remembering that he manages dairy farms for a living. surely there’s gotta be a better way to word that man

NEVER KILL YOURSELF YOU'VE OUTLIVED CHARLIE KIRK TIME TO OUTLIVE TRUMP

Is there anything that Americans won't put cheese on

If you had to live in America, you'd understand. The Cheese is all we have.

Not true. You also have so very much corn.

Yes we put cheese on it.

Nicole Atieno at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week SS 2020

Jennifer's Body (2009) dir. Karyn Kusama

Xenomorph frogs - Sculptures by Li Changchun

2018

Winged

everything just happens and you're forced to just be okay with it

male gaze is not 'when person look sexy' or 'when misogynist make film'

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this'

I don't think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what's in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it's utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn't mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot' - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn't intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it's worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it's there.' it's important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it's important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn't mean 'finding a lady sexy' or 'looking with a sexual lens', it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it's important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can't get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery', you're really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.

“there’s nothing wrong with you” well there actually is but idgaf, thank you though

"This is my comfort character," I say while showing the picture of a character who has never experienced comfort in their entire life.

i have more conversations inside my head than i do in real life

NDA stands for Non't Dalk Aboutit