What movies are you watching?

[The Argonaut]

That's not how I remember it

[Farmer John]

I'm pretty astute when it comes to this kind of stuff.

[Anders]

Finished it now. Well made, strange casting. Worth seeing. Overall pretty good.

[Malloy]

Stranger than Paradise might make my list.

It's a puzzling little film, in some ways it felt underwhelming and in others it was perfect--I found myself really charmed by the slow, almost wistful boredom that stalks many of the scenes. I'll have to sit on it to see how it ranks for me.

ive seen all of his movies. i think Limits of Control the best. maybe Paterson. love pretty much everything but Only Lovers and The Dead.

trag — Limits of Control is an excellent and logical companion to The Five Obstructions

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Mickey]

Stranger than Paradise might make my list.

It's a puzzling little film, in some ways it felt underwhelming and in others it was perfect--I found myself really charmed by the slow, almost wistful boredom that stalks many of the scenes. I'll have to sit on it to see how it ranks for me.

ive seen all of his movies. i think Limits of Control the best. maybe Paterson. love pretty much everything but Only Lovers and The Dead.

trag — Limits of Control is an excellent and logical companion to The Five Obstructions

Give Only Lovers another chance, I think it's one of the best movies of the 2000s. The Dead Don't Die is lighter fare to a certain extent but it is also in a way Jarmusch saying "fuck you!" to anyone attempting to use genre tropes to understand climate change (as he sort of did in Only Lovers!). So I think those two movies together are really interesting. I'm in the minority of people who didn't love Paterson.

[Mickey]

Probably because I fucking hate poets and poetry.

[epilogue]

Probably because I fucking hate poets and poetry.

Seems like that would work in your favor.

[Mickey]

Probably because I fucking hate poets and poetry.

Seems like that would work in your favor.

I really liked the scene about "Bob Frost" in Down By Law.

[Malloy]

Stranger than Paradise might make my list.

It's a puzzling little film, in some ways it felt underwhelming and in others it was perfect--I found myself really charmed by the slow, almost wistful boredom that stalks many of the scenes. I'll have to sit on it to see how it ranks for me.

ive seen all of his movies. i think Limits of Control the best. maybe Paterson. love pretty much everything but Only Lovers and The Dead.

trag — Limits of Control is an excellent and logical companion to The Five Obstructions

Give Only Lovers another chance, I think it's one of the best movies of the 2000s. The Dead Don't Die is lighter fare to a certain extent but it is also in a way Jarmusch saying "fuck you!" to anyone attempting to use genre tropes to understand climate change (as he sort of did in Only Lovers!). So I think those two movies together are really interesting. I'm in the minority of people who didn't love Paterson.

man, the premise of your reading of DEAD is in the dead-center of my aesthetic bailiwick

[Mickey]

Go on...

[Malloy]

Probably because I fucking hate poets and poetry.

how fucking relieved are you that the terminus of your training wasn’t poetry mfa? theory/criticism saves lives (our, at a minimum prevents one from becoming yet another bloodless, bourgeois writer)

[Malloy]

Go on...

i’m a partisan of the michaels/brown/nonsite argument about the limits of political “art” because of its subsumption by the market, in which political entertainments are reduced to part of an array of commodities that satisfy a boundless & interminable process of market segmentation

[Malloy]

this doesn’t invalidate a need for propaganda or political culture. it simply says these things don’t in themselves satisfy the criteria of an artwork.

[Malloy]

feeling like ive badly rehearsed some version of that argument on this site too many times

[The Argonaut]

And, yet, it still doesn't make a lick of sense to me!

[Malloy]

And, yet, it still doesn't make a lick of sense to me!

which part?

[The Argonaut]

And, yet, it still doesn't make a lick of sense to me!

which part?

the part with the words

I'm sure you're right about whatever you're saying, I just don't have the will to read it slowly three times and figure out if that's the case

[Malloy]

And, yet, it still doesn't make a lick of sense to me!

which part?

the part with the words

I'm sure you're right about whatever you're saying, I just don't have the will to read it slowly three times and figure out if that's the case

sorry mate, i know i can be an inelegant writer

[The Argonaut]

Nah, I'm a dummy