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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 10m

daniel plainview is sort of the exception that proves the rule. he's an avatar of the malignant past metastasizing to infect the future. but for his son, who is kinda the movie's true Good Guy, the future is unimaginably bright compared to the past

more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 10m

in Scorsese's movies the future tends to slip through characters' fingers. Casino is a perfect example, these guys think they're chasing the future out west but they're just following the old world off a cliff. Anderson's characters, if they survive to see the future, are usually unburdened by it

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 1h

ask me about the rabbits' food, george

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 1h

does an allowance count

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 1h

i don't know if i'd say the east is reacting to the west specifically so much as to its place as a sort of midway point in the american view of history. the future came here from over there but it's long since carried on out thataway

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 1h

i think the east coast identity is inherently more backwards-looking because growing up there you're constantly hearing about the history of places and people. whereas the west coast identity is rooted in the desire to escape history

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2h

yeah.... safdies separated. saulnier signed up to make superior netflix junk that nonetheless still has the sheen of netflix junk. noah baumbach can't scale up. aronofsky hasn't felt exciting since Pi. closest is maybe james gray?

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2h

You know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bots. The bots Dimitri. The LLM bots. Well now what happened is, all of our tech investors, they had a sort of, well they went a little funny in the head. Just a little funny. And uh they went and did a silly th

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 3h

when you're looking at a boggy marsh

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 11d

Don't Blame Me I Voted For Hamas And Got In Really Big Trouble

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 3h

i don't think you're allowed to call it that

movie thumbnails:
MY BLOODY GALENTINE
OCTOBER 7

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 4h

and I'm getting kinda horny
I'm getting kinda sad
Where can I find a woman
Like the one that Jessie's had

He is a friend I value
Should be good for his sake
But seeing her with Jessie
Makes me really wish I
Had girl
Had girl

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 4h

and I'm getting kinda horny
I'm getting kinda sad
Where can I find a woman
Like the one that Jessie's had

He is a friend I value
Should be good for his sake
But seeing her with Jessie
Makes me really wish I
Had girl
Had girl

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 4h

Earl (duke-duke duke duke) I am the Duke of you

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2d

probably kinda makes your bones feel like shit when the rest of you makes them run away from a "spooky" skeleton.. so what i try to do is, when i get the chance, i also run away from guys who are just a pile of organs or empty skin flying around like a magic carpet. that way nobody feels singled out

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 5h

she's my friend jessie's girl and i know it / i still pine

this one would be a lot of work

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 5h

Wish I had Jessie's girl
I know he's been good
He's been a friend to me-e
Where do I go in the world
If I wanna be seeing
Women so appealing

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 13h

trump officials in the situation room

happy man in a camouflage snuggie holding the remote control, watching tv

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 5h

i'm Duke of Earl and i like it

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 5h

just dukes the whole way down

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 5h

probably more of this

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 5h

(billy joel uptown girl voice) Duke of Earl / Nothing can stop me as I walk through world / Don't try to hurt my duchess no one can / because she's got herself a titled man / Earl's Duke I am

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 5h

hey hey you you i'm the Duke of Earl, friend

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 5h

yeah turns out this heimlich fella was real goofball

more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 5h

had it on vhs as a kid along with When Worlds Collide and the original Roger Corman Little Shop of Horrors. what else... It Came from Beneath the Sea. anyway, doesn't matter, yes i have

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