(the hefty cockpits, especially. I don't like super flimsy things like it's a cessna and not a spaceship. Things look like they have weight and mass. I like that.)
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KUALA TERENGGANU • In Malaysia's Islamic heartland, a door to Hollywood has opened.
For the first time in more than 20 years, the city of Kuala Terengganu has a cinema, showing blockbusters like Baywatch and Wonder Woman. But the darkened hall is dotted with infrared cameras to monitor theatre-going couples.
"Are you looking at the screen or are you doing a bad thing?" said Mr Samiun Salleh, general manager of the Terengganu State Economic Development Corporation, a partner in the cinema.
The effort to mollify local clerics is a political one in the conservative Muslim north-eastern state governed by Prime Minister Najib Razak's coalition.
So I know you're new to the Internet at all, but uhh... well, there's this thing called pornography....
Different moods or tastes require different different stimuli. Why not just look at X, is answered by the fact that Y is, for whatever reason, more stimulating than X. At least sometimes.
Today I will not require the explicit close-up video of things going into other things, but instead will read this short story about, I dunno, vampires oil massaging each other or something.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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@Bogart my internet friend Sean, who does props for Broadway, shared this memory of Sam Shepard yesterday:
The last time I saw Sam was in Derry, Northern Ireland. He and Stephen Rea brought me in to do a blood special effect for Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations), which I think was his last play.
It was incredible time. I was there two weeks before tech to implement the effect and leave it in their hands. So the week I was there was relaxed because we weren't in tech rehearsals. One day has always particularly stood out in my memory, and I took this picture at the end of it.
I spent my days tweaking the blood-oozing mask that I'd made and brought with me. It was this silly Brechtian thing involving a mop, some tubing, a Nalgene flask, a hand pump, and an adapted Halloween mask. I sourced materials from the £ Store across the street. They gave me the bar to work in because the well-appointed art classroom was full of children's art classes so I couldn't have it, which I conceded was a very good reason.
After getting back from the pub for lunch, I ran into Sam and a reporter from the Irish Times in the middle of an interview in the aforementioned bar. This was the result, a moment that I am still astonished was captured:
There was a film festival happening that weekend, and they knew Stephen was going to be in town so they did a viewing of Neil Jordan's first film, Angel, in which he stars. He fecked off back to the hotel during the film, so I ended up watching it with Sam. Afterwards Stephen came back and did a Q&A about the film, and the part I remember was a story about the premiere of Brian Friel's Translations there in Derry. Field Day produced their work there in the 80s, producing plays critical of the British in the same city that saw Bloody Sunday. He told us that the British Army hovered three helicopters over the theater on opening night in an attempt to disrupt the performance. I told this story to Joe Dowling and his eyes got really big and he responded "It's true, I was there...."
Afterwards the three of us headed back to the hotel in a cab. They put me up in the same place they did those two, tho I was in the cheap room (which was definitely one of the better rooms I've ever stayed in). It had an amazing restaurant with multiple stars that I found myself eating in twice a day with a tab that would have broken me; that whole week I think they maybe let me buy a round twice? Never a meal. It also had a pub, naturally.
As we walked in Stephen took one look at us and said good night. Sam and I gave each other a look and poked our heads around the corner to see an empty and closed bar. The woman at the desk saw us asked if we'd like her to open the bar and pour us a couple pints. We said that we did indeed, please and thank you.
I love that old man. He was very kind to me. The opportunities that he gave me were priceless. I'm grateful that I got to walk his path with him for a while. Rest In Peace my friend.
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KUALA TERENGGANU • In Malaysia's Islamic heartland, a door to Hollywood has opened.
For the first time in more than 20 years, the city of Kuala Terengganu has a cinema, showing blockbusters like Baywatch and Wonder Woman. But the darkened hall is dotted with infrared cameras to monitor theatre-going couples.
"Are you looking at the screen or are you doing a bad thing?" said Mr Samiun Salleh, general manager of the Terengganu State Economic Development Corporation, a partner in the cinema.
The effort to mollify local clerics is a political one in the conservative Muslim north-eastern state governed by Prime Minister Najib Razak's coalition.
well, [chat]?
are you doing a bad thing?
That's what couples cinema is for, why even have the thing if you're allowed to use your fingers the way God intended? Unless... getting to watch is the point: Multi-use cinemas that use every part of the buffalo.
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The Life Aquatic is one of those movies that I can tell does what it set out to do very well, I just don't care for what it set out to do. It's not for me.
I'm not sure if I can say I disagree or not, exactly, since I'm not entirely sure what it set out to do. I guess the way I would put it is that I feel like it talked about emotions like grief and ennui but it didn't really evoke those feelings (or many other sensations in their stead) for me. My feeling was that the movie's stylistic excesses kept tripping up the simple human truths at its core, but then, maybe that was the point - to softpedal those feelings and bury them under super-mannered performances and deliberately stilted camerawork.
What I can say with certainty is that I like other Wes Anderson films a lot, because they made me feel ways about things, but The Life Aquatic mainly made me feel impatient with it.
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oh whoops that Irish Times link got truncated @Bogart
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its just a very odd sentence for a comics wikipedia page
It's trying to be cute about saying "HEY THIS IS SET IN TEXAS"
There are better places to go to see drawings of hourglass shaped ladies.
Or so I am led to believe.
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he has some of my absolute fav space things
Got the Master Sword, I can see the whole map, found all the memory spots, and explored some cool forests.
And found a lot of shrines but left them alone for now.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
So I know you're new to the Internet at all, but uhh... well, there's this thing called pornography....
http://talros.deviantart.com/
(the hefty cockpits, especially. I don't like super flimsy things like it's a cessna and not a spaceship. Things look like they have weight and mass. I like that.)
well, [chat]?
are you doing a bad thing?
Different moods or tastes require different different stimuli. Why not just look at X, is answered by the fact that Y is, for whatever reason, more stimulating than X. At least sometimes.
Today I will not require the explicit close-up video of things going into other things, but instead will read this short story about, I dunno, vampires oil massaging each other or something.
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In the cinema?
Well, yes, but not as part of a couple.
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I'll take care of it, friendo, just send it my way.
What is it you do again?
That's what couples cinema is for, why even have the thing if you're allowed to use your fingers the way God intended? Unless... getting to watch is the point: Multi-use cinemas that use every part of the buffalo.
@Feral
I'm not sure if I can say I disagree or not, exactly, since I'm not entirely sure what it set out to do. I guess the way I would put it is that I feel like it talked about emotions like grief and ennui but it didn't really evoke those feelings (or many other sensations in their stead) for me. My feeling was that the movie's stylistic excesses kept tripping up the simple human truths at its core, but then, maybe that was the point - to softpedal those feelings and bury them under super-mannered performances and deliberately stilted camerawork.
What I can say with certainty is that I like other Wes Anderson films a lot, because they made me feel ways about things, but The Life Aquatic mainly made me feel impatient with it.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/the-oedipal-predicament-it-doesn-t-have-a-plot-1.1614637
it's an interesting read!
Chris Cold's stuff always reminds me of the rather terrific Solium Infernum's vision of hell
I already watched all of that
and this is a fantastic read.
"Why do you discriminate against boats?"
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http://yoann-lossel.deviantart.com/
*nods sympathetically*
Trump: I am the world's greatest person
indeed
Science prostitute. You'll need some tight trousers, a good bulge and the ability to confidently talk science nonsense
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the amount of pictures was approaching excessive but I couldn't stop without posting Carne Griffiths because he's one of my favourite artists
Power to the women of the morning shift
Power to the women of the morning shift
dududu du-du du-du dudu du
The pun Karmadillo has already been made.
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