directed by the great dave lachapelle. i still remember seeing this on mtv when it came out and being completely ๐๏ธ๐๐๏ธ as a like 7 year old. the transitions!!!! the plot, the aesthetic, the acting....it's everything.
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watched this a week ago, and iโm still thinking about it, i canโt stop telling my friends they should watch it. for people who grew up in the bay area, especially descendants of immigrant families, it hits so close to home and is a must-watch!!
itโs like if mid-90s and ladybird had a beautiful gorgeous baby
tw: extreme amounts of second-hand embarrassment while watching
Aug 24, 2024
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it's a documentary about ballroom culture in 80s nyc. i like a lot of movies, but paris is buring is one of maybe 2 or 3 movies that i can say genuinely changed my life. for movies, i would say aftersun and the florida project. but paris is burning is a must see for everybody everywhere ever
Oct 22, 2024
growing up queer in a small conservative town is such a weird feeling. i never fit in. people would talk about how weird being queer was and i just had to stand there, silently listening to how awful i supposedly was.
i watched this when i was thirteen and it genuinely changed my whole view on how i was. maybe i was normal. maybe it was society that wasn't.
i could ramble on this for so long about how much this movie changed my life and shaped it.
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i have never seen an episode of this show and never will but i can recite this scene like it's shakesperian poetry and it always makes me giggle no matter how many times i rewatch it
May 17, 2024
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-it's (mostly) free
-low stakes, u can change books if u don't like them and just borrow another one!
-gets me out of a reading slumps bc i have a deadline to read them instead of just being able to allow them to collect dust on my bookshelf forever
-supports one of the few remaining free third spaces
-finding paragraphs someone else underlined and imagining the person based on that
-that hot pisces librarian that looks like german michael pitt and wears dress pants in the middle of summer. that's just my local library sorry
May 16, 2024
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i have a huge collection of digital music still on my hard drive from when i was a heavy pirate bay user in the 2000s/2010s + copied my now lost cd collection. but my computer is too old to be compatible w my iphone so i had to switch to spotify. as soon as i can use my library again my plan is to put the money i would use for spotify in a lil jar and use that to buy cds instead. also, i used to always carry a usb stick on my keychain and whenever friends were playing cool music i would ask if i could copy it. borrow ur friends cds! buy random cds at flea markets! borrow cds from the library and copy them to your computer! tbh choosing what to listen to every time on streaming gives me brain fatigue. i remember it was very soothing to organize my collection and know that i could play it on shuffle and always find something interesting.
May 17, 2024