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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) S2020 E96
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

“Do you believe the President of the United States has sociopathic tendencies and if so, is it high functioning?”

“Donald has so many pathologies and they are so complex and so much co-morbidity… clearly he doesn’t seem to be interested in empathy so I think it’s safe to say, sure he demonstrates sociopathic tendencies and it’s equally safe to say that he is not high functioning at all and that is something that should give every person in the country pause. I mean, we are talking about a man who I do not believe could function in the real world on his own… A crucial reason that he’s gotten as far as he has is because he’s continually protected by what I consider institutions… he’s never been held accountable.”

Steven Wright: When the Leaves Blow Away (2006)
nowt 2 points 4 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

AKA ‘We’ll Find Her When the Leaves Blow Away, Because I’m Not Raking Until Spring.’

Cops (1989)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Dan Taberski’s ‘Running from Cops’ pretty much encapsulated all 32 seasons. But so did the 2004 Old Dominion and Prosise-Johnson studies, as well as Kathleen Curry’s “Mediating COPS: An analysis of viewer reaction to reality TV,” in Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture.

Encapsulated, as in marked the steel drum of it as toxic and reasoned a cement bath’d be best.

Quest for Fire (1981)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

I remember this. There is no helicopter.

Ghost in the Shell (1996)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Excellent score, incl. end credits [Alex Descends into Hell for a Bottle of Milk].

Abstract: The Art of Design (2017) S1 E6
duuuuuuuuuude 0 points 3 years ago.

A concept inside someone’s head isn’t a design, Einstein. In the documentary she said her idea got rejected by Scholz.

nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Yeah, her original idea. They then worked on a new one, which she still hates, and despite its success, which she doesn’t rest upon the laurels of, being an actual Einstein-type genius concerning things like typography and -graphic design-. Roger, tho…

Designs [in the mind] aren’t designs, huh.

Alrighty, then.

Maybe contact Scher directly for clarification. Even an intern could prolly set ya straight.

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Soul (2020)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Reznor and Ross! And Ayoade saves the day.

Extraction (2020)
Dethanos 0 points 4 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Pretentious obsequiousness? Is that even possible?

nowt 2 points 4 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

As likely as sententious servility being sincere.

Deja Vu (2006)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Seen it twice before. Better second time round. Fancy that.

Abstract: The Art of Design (2017) S1 E6
duuuuuuuuuude -2 points 3 years ago.

She didn’t design it. She only designed the typography.

nowt 2 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Yeah, OK. Guess who was Art Director at CBS Records in 1976? She wasn’t ‘only doing’ typography. She was in control of the show and she didn’t get to the point of control of designs there by -not- designing things. Dude.

Guess who worked for CBS Records in 1976 as a sketch monkey? Take your time. It’s a tough one.

But nice to see you move from ‘Roger illustrated it, not her’ which is such a strange red herring [no, really? just like it says in the cover credits? where she -only- designed the infernal thing [boston agrees! ON THE COVER! [scholz the one who -wanted- ‘guitar spaceships’]]], to ‘Roger did everything [design, illustration, idea], but design the typography’.

Creepy. And now I know way too much about a yacht rock album.
Gross on so many levels.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
somniloquist 1 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

I’m holding out for the shatter-proof whole-wheat taco shells.

nowt 2 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Looking at World Watch One’s April, 1986 newsletter. Can now tie a bowtie.

Monochrome: The Chromism (2019)
simoine43 2 points 3 years ago.

Huemans

nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Huemo sapiens. Long pigments.

Hard to Be a God (2014)
nowt 2 points 4 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Way more Strugatskiy material out there than expected, but there were two of them.

Paris Is Burning (1990)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

The Axis is still losing.

Barton Fink (1991)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

“The Coen brothers have expressed interest in making a sequel to Barton Fink called Old Fink, which would take place in the 1960s. “It’s the summer of love and [Fink is] teaching at Berkeley. He ratted on a lot of his friends to the House Un-American Activities Committee”, said Joel Coen. The brothers have stated that they have had talks with John Turturro about reprising his role as Fink, but they were waiting “until he was actually old enough to play the part”.”

“Speaking to The A.V. Club in June 2011, Turturro suggested the sequel would be set in the 1970s, and Fink would be a hippie with a large Jewfro. He said “you’ll have to wait another 10 years for that, at least””

Well, that poisons that well.

Jeff Dunham: Minding the Monsters (2012)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Enjoy this? Like, a lot? Does it get the ol’ midbrain a’vibratin’? Then you, o infallible adjudicator, will lurrrrrve this.

[1.] [that’s a ‘spam post’ apparently, tho this show was found after reading other comments on another show; comments which recommended -this- comic as well as other comics as tho the site were being used as intended.

mindblowing, right?]

Hud (1963)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Neat. First of the Thalia [muse of comedy and pastoral poetry]: A Texas Trilogy series, all set in the same north Texas town.

1961: Horseman, Pass By – adapted for film as Hud
1963: Leaving Cheyenne – adapted for film as Lovin’ Molly
1966: The Last Picture Show – adapted for film as The Last Picture Show

And then The Last Picture Show double features as the first of a pentalogy centered upon Duane Moore.

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 (2020)
nowt 2 points 4 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Skip the opening credits [horrid] and the 7th ep. [filler], and it’s pretty damn fine.

Sssssss (1973)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

This is not the snake jazz I need.

The Dunwich Horror (1970)
somniloquist 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

You’d even bore illegitimate twins.

nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

I Miskatonic U.

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
somniloquist 4 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

You know, for kids.

nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

What a Hudstler.

The Golden Palace (1992) S1 E1
nowt 2 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

New theme song same as the old. Somehow, tho, Cheech Marin is much less of a surprise than Don Cheadle!

Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
phil collier -2 points 4 years ago.

So the organisation making millions from it said it was written soley by her in 43/44 surprise surprise, funnily the same said organisation is now saying that it was co-wrote by her father so they can copywrite it for another 30 years. tin foil hats are only needed by people who believe a diary can be written with a ball point pen only available 6 years after her death

nowt 2 points 4 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Furtive appeal to wealth after given two reputable sources [which themselves cite multiple scientific and forensic sources [documentation is such an infuriating anti-intellect conspiracy, huh]] and you’re on the net. Wundebar.

Kusama: Infinity (2018)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Lolita Vibrator Torture (1987)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Misses the mark. It’s no The Embryo Hunts in Secret, Tattooed Flower Vase, or A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn.

Double Negative (1981)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

AKA Litotes, Eh.

Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (1996)
[deleted]
nowt 2 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Villon’s Straight Tip To All Cross Coves
1887
trans. by william ernest henley.

‘Tout aux tavernes et aux filles’

I

Suppose you screeve, or go cheap-jack?
Or fake the broads? or fig a nag?
Or thimble-rig? or knap a yack?
Or pitch a snide? or smash a rag?
Suppose you duff? or nose and lag?
Or get the straight, and land your pot?
How do you melt the multy swag?
Booze and the blowens cop the lot.

II

Fiddle, or fence, or mace, or mack;
Or moskeneer, or flash the drag;
Dead-lurk a crib, or do a crack;
Pad with a slang, or chuck a fag;
Bonnet, or tout, or mump and gag;
Rattle the tats, or mark the spot
You cannot bank a single stag:
Booze and the blowens cop the lot.

III

Suppose you try a different tack,
And on the square you flash your flag?
At penny-a-lining make your whack,
Or with the mummers mug and gag?
For nix, for nix the dibbs you bag
At any graft, no matter what!
Your merry goblins soon stravag:
Booze and the blowens cop the lot.

The Moral.

It’s up-the-spout and Charley-Wag
With wipes and tickers and what not!
Until the squeezer nips your scrag,
Booze and the blowens cop the lot.




Notes
Stanza I, line I. Screeve = provide (or work with) begging-letters. Line 2. Fake the broads = pack the cards. Fig a nag = play the coper with an old horse and a fig of ginger. Line 3. Knap a yack = steal a watch. Line 4. Pitch a snide = pass a false coin. Smash a rag = change a false note. Line 5. Duff = sell sham smugglings. Nose and lag = collect evidence for the police. Line 6. Get the straight = get the office, and back a winner. Line 7. Multy (expletive) = “bloody”. Line 8. Booze and the blowens cop the lot: cf. “’Tis all to taverns and to lasses.” (A. Lang).
Stanza II, line 1. Fiddle = swindle. Fence = deal in stolen goods. Mace = welsh. Mack = pimp. Line 2. Moskeneer = to pawn for more than the pledge is worth. Flash the drag = wear women’s clothes for an improper purpose. Line 3. Dead-lurk a crib = house-break in church time. Do a crack—burgle with violence. Line 4. Pad with a slang = tramp with a show. Line 5. Mump and gag = beg and talk. Line 6. Tats = dice. Spot, (at billiards). Line 7. Stag = shilling.
Stanza iii, line 2. Flash your flag = sport your apron. Line 4. Mug = make faces. Line 5. Nix = nothing. Line 6. Graft = trade. Line 7. Goblins = sovereigns. Stravag = go astray.
The Moral.: Up the spout and Charley Wag = expressions of dispersal. Line 2. Wipes = handkerchiefs. Tickers = watches. Line 3. Squeezer = halter. Scrag = neck.
Abstract: The Art of Design (2017) S1 E6
duuuuuuuuuude -1 points 3 years ago.

Art Directing isn’t designing, Einstein. Roger Huyssen has his preliminary sketches online. You can clearly see the entire layout was his design.

nowt 2 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)


So, Scher and Scholz talk about the idea, and agree on a design…
Scher then tells her illustrator what the design idea is, and he sketches it out with her over his shoulder as she tells him what to do/not do, giving direction as head of a vcreative department working on that month’s big project, making certain that Roger doesn’t get wrong what Scholz and Scher talked about…
Scher then gets credit for filling out -by designing- the idea Scholz had on the album, -on the album-…
Hussyen gets credit for illustrating the idea Scholz had that then was designed and relayed to him by his boss at the time, on that same album, where he’s credited -not as designer- but as illustrator…

But for you to believe otherwise, it’s more than a feeling?

Cool.

Titus (2000)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

Now we’re talkin’.

Greyhound (2020)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago.

Nicely pinging achromatic paradigm.

Twin Peaks (1990)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

A third season that doesn’t even require the first two. And now, The Nine Inch Nails.

Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement (2016)
doctor who 3 points 3 years ago.

this is true… especially when history is written by the victors.

nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Not just by victors, Vector. Tho certain types are more keen to rewrite history counterfactually. And that includes the history of the present.

Cop Rock (1990)
potmalone 3 points 3 years ago.

John Oliver brought me here

nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Randy Newman made me run away.

Party Down (2009) S2 E5
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Was everything I dreamed: Breasts of Unusual Size.

Childish Gambino: This Is America (2018)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

The location-specific covers that this prompted [Nigeria, Iraq, Sierra Leone, South Africa, UK, Germany, India, Italy, Russia, France, Barbados, etc] are themselves terrifically critical, even if some fail for going too light [Japan, Greece]. Glover did a great thing.

Harrison Bergeron (1995)
Davidleefl43 4 points 3 years ago.

love kurt vonnegut his book breakfast of champions changed the way i think

nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Slapstick made me cry. Iunno why.

Autism: The Musical (2007)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Surprisingly, not auto-tuned. Be prepared: Everybody dies.

The Rachel Maddow Show (2008) S2020 E121
MarkRowley 1 points 3 years ago.

….wait…reporting? That’s like saying drawing two lego bricks next to each other is architecture. This guy Maddow is no journalist.

nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Straw manning false analogies is much like positioning scarecrows into buttsex: Impotent hayseed.

Wander (2020)
nowt 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Some nice musical choices at the start; disinterest thruout. Almost as tho the intent was to put the viewer into the flat zone of heavy medication.

Color Out of Space (2020)
nowt 1 points 4 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Opening narration verbatim from the story; music by Colin Stetson. Two minutes in, here’s hoping it maintains. [using poor acting to its advantage, everything works forgivably enough except for the shot of the ‘homeworld’]

Hamilton (2020)
nowt 1 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

This is not Brad Neely’s George Washington.

Our Cartoon President (2018)
nowt -1 points 4 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

A theme song Colbert just might let Trump use on the trail.

21 Bridges (2019)
nowt 1 points 4 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Skip the first six minutes, and it’s better than most.

Southern Survival (2020)
grasshopper rex 3 points 3 years ago.

That’s still a very simplistic explanation of how we got stuck with Trump. It’s not just an aberration of our our political system that neither party can keep control of Washington for more than 8 years. “The South” as used by the op does refer to a specific geographical area. Even so, I have never heard the term used to denigrate a certain section of the population other than citizens that live in the southern states.

I want to be clear that to my way of thinking there are 2 distinct sets that are to blame for Trump. The ones described by Beta do exist are among the ones that still support Trump even though he has clearly shown that he is not suitable for the office that he disgraces. But those are not just restricted to any one geographical area and even though they have caused much suffering and pain, it isn’t in any way helpful to just demonize and dismiss them out of hand. They are just as much a product of their environment as any violent criminal that resides in any of our major cities.

If the object is to just assess blame then feel free to scapegoat away, but don’t be surprised that those like them will continue to plague our society. It’s neither helpful or productive to sling about acerbic hyperbole. Like anyone that feels attacked they will just dig in their heels and stand their ground.

nowt 1 points 3 years ago*.

They all are simplistic; even the books are too short.
The South moves; The North moves. The Coasts are a thing; Cities are a thing; Country [in that Nashville way] and Flyover Country are a thing. The OP refers to a mindset, and that mindset referred as being of The South, as that’s where the mindset itself has held the most power historically, referencing itself by The South while doing so. And readily voiced as Country or Hick or Redneck across the nation. Imprecise synonyms where the cardinal direction itself is a large meta-tag that only exists because of the density of the type so tagged in certain regions, but the regions themselves are amorphous and nebulous af. The show above doesn’t just appeal to The South by its title alone.
It may not be helpful. It may also be helpful. Sometimes, Fncking Beware the Fncking Dog: It’ll Bite You and Make You Dotarded carries more weight. They are dismissed and demonized with reason: The ridiculous gets ridiculed when it’s shown ridiculous and still does its damage for being a religion in all its trappings of sophistry. That they are people makes them partial product of their environment; that they far outnumber violent criminals, working their damage passive-aggressively at yet greater cost both to the world, economically and environmentally [etc]; and to the liberal experiment the USA is, is deserving of scorn. There are untenable positions which bear too much poisonously radioactive fruit. There isn’t a Violent Crime Party; there is an American version far nearer to the worst of Europe’s last century and the shameful past of America’s own last century and the centuries’ prior, than mindsets of that type have been part of, validated by, cultivated for in quite awhile. Fascism’s up. There are signs. Antifascist signs may get planted wherever.
Those like them always plague every society. Their positions adapt to destroy and limit what is Other, even if they themselves do not evolve.
Invective is a rhetorical device. Whether apodioxis or bdelygmia; aganactesis or vituperation. You prefer medela; that’s fine. They each have their moment; Beta’s moment wasn’t yours.
Civil in text need not be granted to that which has already been rendered Bitey Fncking Dotard Infectious Dog.

JFK to 9/11: Everything Is a Rich Man's Trick (2014)
Johnny2Stripes 1 points 3 years ago*.

I was aware you hadn’t watched it, you commented within minutes of it being uploaded.

nowt 1 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Scanned about a fifth of it, with some jumping thru for random sampling. Not much high school gym teacher Conolly was adding to the historical record except for triggering paranoids with a mixtape of the sui generis 20th c. white supremacist and Ameri-nationalist faves set to audiovisual sensory flood, which -reading- the script limits, laying bare that it’s essentially a delusional blogpost by some near-subliterate [despite his having taught high school English in England for some scant years [that must’ve gone well]].

One doesn’t really have to edge upon a dildo of petrified Viking poo for three and half hours to kinda immediately grasp that it’s not worth digesting. But whatever. ‘Poetry’ was being kind.

Don’t forget to delete and repeat!

Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
nowt -1 points 4 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Poor John Williams, made insane by his own earworm.

Star Wars had bloobies, once upon.

The Silencing (2020)
nowt 0 points 3 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

Falls apart midway, which is sad, cuz atlatls. Sadlatls.

Too Many Cooks (TV Short 2014) (2014)
somniloquist 5 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

When my brain finally dies, as they keep promising me it will, the mix of euphoria and terror will not be foreign to me. An electrical imbalance between the cells will wade through neurons filling themselves with charged ions as the electromagnetic forces try to wipe clear the charge imbalance and maintain a hold on the ions. As the systems panic, the serotonin sets in. My eyes glaze.
And how is none of this entirely unfamiliar? Because I have already seen Too Many Cooks.

nowt 1 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Just glad the falcon didn’t get intronitus, yet sad it got no credit.

Devs (2020) S1 E7
nowt 1 points 4 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

The dark and better half of Larkin’s Aubade has prolly not been as well used.

Brave New World (2020)
nowt 1 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

At least Grant Morrison’s trying to earn enough juice to get The Invisibles made anyway.