happy christmas
this might be brail to anyone who hasn’t lived in the san francisco bay area, but man, yeah, this is absolutely a sentiment my friends and i have felt for a decade.
i saw good ol john hendren post this in august and meant to share it here then. he’s right. anyone who works at facebook can screw off. they completely destroyed that whole area and ruined tens of thousands of people’s lives there. these jerkweeds are complicit in aiding evil, and all for some fucking blood money. give me 5,000 bush-pissers over those human cockroaches any day of the week.
what is wrong with me? why am i obsessed with russians? i love them
(it is 6 am and i’m here in upstate new york, miles from the canadian border, and appraising my love of russian people in the dark. well: ok)
i don’t know if y’all noticed this, but jupiter and saturn and mars have been visible in the night sky since about mid-summer i think. i can always look up and find them. jupiter and saturn are always close together, jupiter being huge, and saturn hovering faintly above it. of course mars is easy to spot because it’s red in the night sky.
on monday, the winter solstice, jupiter and saturn will align and form a double planet conjunction. the two planets will either be extremely close together or right on top of one another, forming a solid dot in the sky. apparently jupiter and saturn haven’t been this close together in something like eight centuries. that’s insane.
anyway: make sure you go out and look at it! astronomers say this won’t happen again for a long time. and it is not difficult to find where jupiter and saturn are. (planets don’t twinkle like stars, etc.)
and well, you just know i love space and stars, so i had to say something about it here. so yeah!! ☆彡
this country stresses me out. day after day i am just in total disbelief about how breathtakingly stupid this place is
Exactly five years ago I was doing what I am doing right now, which is to lie low in the ghost town where I’m from. It is only temporary. And just like last time, I think I am going completely insane. Updates to follow!
Today it snowed and sleeted. I was inside sleeping. I’ve been doing a lot of sleeping lately.
Anyway g’night~
my good friend mable took these in september when i was in chicago. we drove down to tennessee together after that and walked through a mushroom forest, and then hung out with my dad’s goats. thanks for the pictures, mable. you’re cool.
hello: my name is ryan. i left all my earthly possessions in a storage unit in berkeley and flew to the east coast for a month or two. i accidentally only packed six pairs of underwear and six pairs of socks and literally thirty black t-shirts. this is not a good ratio. nice going, ryan. we’re boned!!
tomorrow i think i’m going to go to the christmas tree farm where i went as a kid, and i’m gonna chop down the biggest tree i can find. and then bring it home and probably watch helplessly as dante jumps on it and it all comes crashing down. he’s clumsy like that, and god love him for it.
ok i’m going to sleep now. bye lol
Ingmar Bergman presents the battle of the sexes as a ramshackle, grotesque carnival of humiliation in Sawdust and Tinsel, one of the master’s most vivid early works and his first of many collaborations with the great cinematographer Sven Nykvist. The story of the charged relationship between a turn-of-the-twentieth-century circus owner (Åke Grönberg) and his younger mistress (Harriet Andersson), a horseback rider in the traveling show, the film features dreamlike detours and twisted psychosexual power plays, making for a piercingly brilliant depiction of physical and spiritual degradation.
Agnès Varda turns her camera on an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton. In addition to evincing Varda’s fascination with her adopted surroundings and her empathy, this perceptive short is also a powerful political statement.
Restored by the Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata in association with Ciné-Tamaris and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Annenberg Foundation, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and The Film Foundation.
