Just a quick reminder that you don't have to tell every retail worker you encounter that you could have bought it on Amazon but chose not to. No one is making you do this!

i hate that everything is an industry. everything is based on scarcity. knowledge, survival, access to all the tools to build a comfortable life in service of craft. shit is sad man

✨ EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE ✨ Fresh from theaters, watch ORLANDO: MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (2023), Paul B. Preciado's blend of personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto. criterionchannel.com/orlando-my-pol…

G for Gilded 👑

Happy to announce I’ve decided to turn my life around and will be changing all of my day to day habits this week. It will work and I will not fail, it is easy to do this kind of thing

One more time: it takes a saguaro more than a hundred years before it develops “arms.” This cactus first came into existence before there was a US-Mexico border.

Aaron Bushnell is right. The ruling class is insane. They’ve normalized for-profit healthcare and prisons, homelessness, climate disaster, endless war, and genocide. The lower class people running defense for them are a shining example of how much insanity has been normalized.

it's cool that we have an entire executive class of people who are immune to the consequences of their poorly considered whims or terrible foresight but can immediately decimate the livelihoods of people engaging in real, tangible labour.

art that sets out to appeal to humanity needs the human hand. these pieces wouldn't hit the same if they were cobbled together at random from other peoples' works. you can fake the mark-making, but you can't fake the emotion, meditation and pain that seeps into the work.

On the visionary & iconic director's birthday, have a Vincente Minnelli marathon on the Criterion Channel!💖 First up: His timeless, dazzling musical AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951), starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron! bit.ly/3SUSiYp

GREEN PORNO+ 💚 Now playing! criterionchannel.com/green-porno Watch the one and only Isabella Rossellini combine science, performance art, and DIY puppetry to illuminate the intimate, unexpected oddities of the natural world in this collection of singularly strange and delightful films.

L'Argent (1928) Directed by Marcel L'Herbier

“mario’s tummy ache”

The seamless team chemistry of Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly proved so sensational in ANCHORS AWEIGH that the duo would be paired in two subsequent MGM films. ANCHORS AWEIGH received five Oscar nominations including Best Actor for Kelly and Best Picture.

You know it's true what they say. You learn something new every day. But most of the time it's nothing you give a shit about.

Gloria Swanson in Why Change Your Wife? (1920) Directed by Cecil B. DeMille

DOMEE SHI on Howl's appeal to the female gaze vulture.com/article/best-h…

The Saga of Gosta Berling was released in Sweden 100 years ago today, launching Greta Garbo to stardom

Adversary by Blue Delliquanti is officially OUT today! Curtis is out, single, & ready to take his life in a different direction. Anton is an enigmatic young man who recognizes Curtis from their pre-pandemic lives. One drink leads to a relationship layered w/ unspeakable needs.