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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 19h

"There's a second protester in a frog suit on the streets of Portland"

A picture of Donald Trump in the middle of a press conference leaning back to listen as Marco Rubio whispers something in his ear.

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 1d

I like how your first paragraph could be a capsule review of any random TRON movie. Yes, even the first one, where it's Bridge's raw charisma, Wendy Carlos' score and the visuals doing all the heavy lifting.

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 4d

Shout out to Corridor Crew for
a) respecting Lilly and Lana Wachowski's genders and pronouns
b) including a shot of my uncle
in their video recreating THE MATRIX' Bullet Time

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d

Ad for the 1983 James Bond 007 "Video Game Cartridge"

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 4d

There's an interesting comparison with Roger Moore's 1974 movie GOLD at the other end of his Bond career, which is maybe a bit subtler but also stronger in its political messaging. Still, Hyams got his 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT gig off the back of OUTLAND, so I can't slam it too hard.

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 4d

There's just nothing on the narrative or thematic fronts that demands or depends upon setting it in space. Interestingly, this doesn't detract from the story, but all those long shots of elaborate models (especially the landing sequence) and matte paintings soak up time that could be used elsewhere

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 4d

Watched OUTLAND, which I'm not convinced I've ever done properly before, and its biggest problem is that it's a fake SF movie: you could take out all the Jupiter-adjacent setting, repetitive explosive decompressions and video emails, then make the exact same movie and idk, maybe call it HIGH NOON...

Still from OUTLAND.. A grizzled Sean Connery in his space marshall outfit points a decidedly low-tech gun at someone out of shot.

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 5d

Alternatively, make a science fiction movie already, PTA.
Ya boi Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW is, you know, right there

Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 5d

Make a horror movie, PTA. It's time.

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 5d

I have the non-plus MV7 and I love having the ability to use the USB connection with the 3.5mm monitoring at the same time as the XLR (with a suitable interface) to get a separate clean high quality recording you can run post on. The touch interface still sucks, tho

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 6d

This week's episode of @hdtgm.bsky.social, in which Jake Johnson not just breaks, but totally annihilates format is among the funniest 70 minutes of anything I have ever listened to.

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 6d

Speaking from the perspective of a person who isn't into the band Pavement, the semidocumentary film about the band Pavement doesn't really seem all that geared towards people who aren't into the band Pavement and/or getting them into the band Pavement.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 6d

The small things that can give you pleasure. My oldest bookmark in continuous use

Bookmark on thin card, advertising Len Deighton‘s billion dollar brain, now in penguins, five shillings

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 7d

Watched VICE IS BROKE, which:
a) wasn't worth all the fuss about MUBI not releasing it and then releasing it anyway
b) is rather rendered moot by the existence of DOCUMENTARY NOW!'s "DRONEZ: The Hunt for El Chingon"
c) is more embittered and self-indulgent than it is informative and insightful

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 7d

Found an online enclave of people being upset with Emily Blunt for getting a boob job when they were actually looking at edited photos from the Venice premiere of THE SMASHING MACHINE which had taken the amount of sideboob she was actually showing and multiplied it by a factor of four or five

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 7d

So, who’s got the cojones to fly out to the Riyadh Selliout Comedian Festival and heckle the shit out of each and every act? I mean, that material practically writes itself…

Possible downside: being hacked limb from limb by “security”.

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 8d

Personally, I'd prefer to skip a couple of steps here.

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 8d

So, you write a Harry Potter/Handmaid's Tale mashup fanfic that garners a huge following leading to it being snapped up by a traditional publisher, much to the excitement of your dedicated fanbase, but then you have to rewrite the whole thing to remove all the IP so it's now something different?

The fanfiction written on a notes app that’s become a bestseller – with a seven-figure film deal

SenLinYu’s debut started life as Harry Potter fanfiction. The Alchemised author shares why they were drawn to a war-torn love story, how a conservative upbringing shaped their writing, and the snobber...

www.theguardian.com

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 9d

The Hoff's finest hour. And the Michael/Garthe dualism is reflected in that of K.I.T.T./K.A.R.R. and its attendant sibling rivalry: some deep stuff going on under the surface in this show

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 9d

Catastrophic design flaw with the new Logitech MX Master 4 mouse: it's back to front.

📷 Tom's Hardware

A photo of the new ew Logitech MX Master 4 mouse, in which the clicky buttons are facing the user and the rolly thing is on the pinky side

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 9d

In the wake of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER I find myself paying far too much attention to people’s walking gaits

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