*Went back to it tonight, in the middle of Omcrion, and got pulled into it.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 8 January 2022 04:53 (two years ago) link
i just realized the guy who did that thing i don't want to see made this. huh.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 January 2022 06:24 (two years ago) link
ignore that. the movie is much better than anything he's directly made as a standup, totally different vibe
― Nhex, Sunday, 9 January 2022 03:36 (two years ago) link
Oh I liked it! I just don’t want to see the other thing
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 9 January 2022 03:36 (two years ago) link
yeah... probably better off not seeing Inside. or any of his netflix specials. I don't know why, I watched those trying to convince myself that there was something good there, and... probably not?
― Nhex, Sunday, 9 January 2022 03:39 (two years ago) link
Gave my friend's grade 8 daughter a DVD of this for Christmas. She's very much into her Darlene-in-Rosanne incommunicado phase--hope she watches it.
― clemenza, Sunday, 9 January 2022 03:53 (two years ago) link
the movie is much better than anything he's directly made as a standup
The movie Eighth Grade is a perfectly fine, very watchable movie about what it feels like to be an eighth grader in a US middle school in the twenty-first century, which rather naturally encompasses the main character feeling not exactly fine throughout the movie, but struggling not to feel much, much worse than fine.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 9 January 2022 03:55 (two years ago) link
I just watched Inside on Friday and greatly enjoyed it while thinking to myself “I bet most of ILX is falling over themselves to hate this” and then I thought “that’s not particularly charitable, I should look up what the reaction actually was before assuming” and welp
― castanuts (DJP), Sunday, 23 January 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
learning (as I did via letterboxd) that BB apparently lived with his partner of several years through all this really did add an extra layer of "fuck off buddy" to my reaction
Just wait 'til you hear about Thoreau and Walden.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 24 January 2022 02:04 (two years ago) link
so uh this is pretty good especially given the current situation
Wow. Didn’t know Bo Burnham was a real one. Couldn’t be more relevant pic.twitter.com/DOBEcUEVJQ— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) November 2, 2022
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
He's right that the market demands growth and companies that sell your attention must increase their reach into your attention in order to grow. We can only hope that social media will poison their own well so completely by cranking that handle so hard it breaks, and people reject it to give their attention elsewhere.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
dang that twitter post took down twitter hardcore
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 November 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
"and yet you participate in society"
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
"Drink a Haitian guy's blood"
― insane oatmeal raisin cookie posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 3 November 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
https://genius.com/4355796?
― insane oatmeal raisin cookie posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 3 November 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
That's a good clip--very much in keeping with what I thought was Eighth Grade's greatest sequence, the girl lost on the internet as "Orinoco Flow" played.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 November 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link