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Bizarre, but somehow makes sense.
Jack Donoghue is the new Kevin Bacon
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Alain Delon is the slick predator.
Dennis Hopper is the wildcard.
Matt Damon is the bleeding heart.
Malkovich is Malkovich.
Barry Pepper is the invisible kid.
Andrew Scott is the black hole.
I wrote about all of the on-screen Ripleys on my substack:
Apr 26, 2024
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the feeling when you see someone in a ep of a random cop show and know what you know them from without imdb
Apr 6, 2024
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Been seeing that White Lotus --- a show that I have never had much interest in --- scene and it is reminding that Sam Rockwell is a cold ass actor. I'm happy that he is floating on the timeline again because he is a very good actor. Here is a guy who can turn a character into something insanely memorable by pure charisma and weird charm. Now, he won the Oscar for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and while that movie is sometimes frustrating, I do think it is a good portrayal of anger at social class that is manifesting itself --- or possibly just because of it --- towards hatred of identity groups. Rockwell is very good in it, getting the better of the showy McDormand performance. But, to me, I hated that he won the Oscar portraying such a dodo bird. He had played such cool and interesting characters -- he even becomes a weirdo as Hammer in Iron Man 2 --- and he understood how to be sly and dopey while still maintain a kind of honest mentality that made people want to root for him in every movie. He's better when he isn't pudgy, isn't striving; in a way, he is a comedic actor at best.
Watch Moon, where he plays a lonely astronaut in space. He is also great in Richard Jewell as a sympathetic lawyer. Character actors like Rockwell deserve publicity, especially when they're doing something unheralded.
Mar 18, 2025
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Social media can encourage us to constantly seek out the novel and makes us feel like we're missing out if we don't.
It's much better for peace of mind, in my opinion, if we let go of the immediate, and use impermanence as our filter for information.
We don't all need to watch the latest streaming show, or hear the latest album.
What needs to find us, and what we need to find, usually finds a way
Mar 13, 2024
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In a world where monopolization is allowed, sometimes you can only drop Trader Joe's for union busting, while keeping your Amazon account.
Real, wide change in this world might require a new 2020, but we can do a little bit better a little at a time
Mar 15, 2024
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Arcade Fire has to relinquish their publishing to the man
Feb 6, 2024