GENIUS is too small a word for this Best-ever Western.

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (Live 7/29/64) youtu.be/cUxA0P4Z_Y8?si… via YouTube There's sublime & then there's this Ella performance in France in 1964.

I wrote about how I take notes when I'm reading, and also why: not to be more "efficient" or "productive," but to dwell with a text more deeply--& also just as a way of relishing existence. With many photos of my notebooks. Link in profile.

bob dylan, shot by douglas r. gilbert, 1964

Just watch Winona move in this fantastic sequence. & when Stiller cuts to the exterior long shot of the Food Mart & you see them whooping it up inside from such a sudden distance - goosebumps.

~Thirty Novels for #Noirvember~ 1. IN A LONELY PLACE (1947). For many of the books on this list, toxic masculinity is like a chill in the room: felt but not discussed. Hughes’ astounding novel locks us inside the mind of a predator and forces us to confront what we find there.

Authors I read the most as a teenager: DICKENS (Yes, Dickens, really, I loved his novels), TWAIN (everything), SALINGER (obsessed), HESSE, CAMUS, BAUM (ALL his Oz books, more obsession). There were others but these aforementioned ruled my mind.

Biden never should have promised not to run for a second term & he never should have promised not to step in & pardon his son's unfair persecution. It's the foolishness of these 2 promises (both entirely political) that takes him down a bit in my eyes.

Art answers :-)

My lone voice in the wilderness of toxic Bro Masculinity: this movie sucks. Bullshit from start to finish. Phony. Weird content, worship of the 1st film throughout. I aborted, could not tolerate its gung-ho war pride. TOXIC. Fuck your stupid fake hero worship.

trump welcomed this ridiculous nutjob & white nationalist to his personal dinner table as a guest at mar a lago, along with Kanye West who praised Adolph Hitler. Reportedly they had a lovely dinner.

Genius in any language.

I'd never in a million yrs guess that that's John Sebastian - BUT I LOVE the idea that they went biking together like that. Hmm maybe some of Sebastian's fantastic talent for melody somehow seeped into Dylan by way of crotch pressing into blue jean butt. Sacrilegious of me?

lareviewofbooks.org/article/fitful… ". . .discovered among Babitz’s papers. . .a box of unmailed letters, including a remarkable one to “Dear Joan” — “that Joan, the Joan. Joan Didion.” In the letter, the centerpiece of this book, Babitz’s ambivalence toward Didion is on full display."

letterboxd.com/bringelsonmark… "You don't judge this blockbuster George Cukor film from pre-Code 1933 the same as you would a 2024 Chris Nolan movie. Different worlds, entirely. Obviously. That said, I loved this Cukor gem."

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This is portrait of Françoise Gilot who had presided in Picasso's life for the previous seven years as mistress, ‘muse’ and the mother of their children Claude and Paloma. Femme assise en costume rouge sur fond bleu painting by Pablo Picasso (1953).

Best strategy for Dems lmao

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