(probably impossible to read on mobile but just go ahead and zoom in for all i care!)

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY is incredible . . . wow! unsurprisingly, burt “big balls a-swingin” lancaster launches out of the gate with his big balls a-swinin this way and that until the very last scene. the film could not exist without him. thus spoke mccune:

for those of who you mooch off my criterion channel account, it’s currently streaming under their scene stealers / best supporting actor collection on account of ol burt

(A FISH CALLED WANDA is also in there, as is SHAMPOO, and both are excellent~)

yeah! anyway: get on it! and then watch burt in THE SWIMMER, for god’s sake

woke up today and immediately began sharing pictures of god’s littlest angels with sister monty

can’t help but feel that the good times are in the rearview mirror, and that i am now on a slow downward trajectory towards the end, and probably have been for some time lol

the sky over czechia from vienna to berlin this evening

hooters is about to file for bankruptcy so i had to act fast on this one

i have only eaten at hooters once and it made me sick. on my check the waitress had written: “my left leg is thanksgiving. my right leg is christmas. don’t forget to eat between the holidays!” i was 16 years old

gotta be either the jester or the magician . . . maybe the explorer too . . .

Listen: I think about NIGHTS OF CABIRIA at least once a day . . . and whenever I picture Cabiria in my mind I almost start to cry. I’m serious! I just love her and want her to be happy!!

If you have never seen it, you have to. My friend Amissa once sent it to me in the mail and said: “This is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.” Foolishly I did not watch it right away . . . I finally got around to it during the pandemic. And during the closing scene, out of nowhere I started bawling. It just came upon me at that moment and surprised me. I was deeply moved by it, OK?

Look, it’s even in my LETTERBOXD TOP FOUR (!):

In Roger Ebert’s review of Cabiria, he ended it with this:

Of all his characters, Fellini once said, Cabiria was the only one he was still worried about. In 1992, when Fellini was given an honorary career Oscar, he looked down from the podium to Masina sitting in the front row and told her not to cry. The camera cut to her face, showing her smiling bravely through her tears, and there was Cabiria.

The American writer Ambrose Bierce, whose most famous work is probably the short story ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge‘ (‘An Inhabitant of Carcosa‘ also rules), mysteriously disappeared while traveling in 1914 when he was about 72 years old. In one of his last letters, which he wrote from the road, he said this:

Good-bye. If you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags, please know that I think it is a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico—ah, that is euthanasia!

I love it. I have many times written similar such things in letters to friends (lol)~