the directors cut is the only way to watch southland tales
i dunno about the squibs thing but if you watch the movie like the cinemasins guy, you’re gonna have dings going off constantly til your head explodes. which is why the movie is good btw
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Oh, no, I think it’s 100% intentional, not an error at all.
I meant they are an example of the neomarxist plot, screenplay, and USIDENT plot intersecting/layered around Santeros.
They are also literal punctuation.
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OH THANK GOODNESS
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I didn’t see Southland Tales, because by then I had realized that Donnie Darko was kind of a movie for dummies (the director’s cut is legit awful), and I had zero confidence in that guy to “grapple woth ambitious subject matter”. I had a film professor that loved it and almost taught it in class, but decided to just make it a recommendation. I just thought he was having an Armond White moment.
Now I gotta watch it, I guess.
donkey dorko blows chunks
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the director’s cut of Donnie Darko is somehow much worse than the original which I think is an accomplishment in itself
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From what I could tell, he left in a lot of family drama scenes that were cut out, which included a lot of shakey acting. It not only slows everything down but also pockmarks the otherwise okay performances in the theatrical cut.
is ‘suck a fuck’ exclusive to the director’s cut? if so then it has a purpose in this world
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No thats in the theatrical cut
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cross-posting some pro Women’s Mountain Biking news:
Kate Courtney is the first American woman in 17 years, to win the overall title for Women’s XC MTB World Cup season. She was also the first in 17 years, to even win one race. I watched the whole season and its been a hell of a ride. She also won the World Championship last year (its a one-off race and a separate honor from World Cup), which was her first race after moving from Juniors to Elites. And took a respectable 5th at World Championships, this year. And she is the first U.S. mountain biker this year, to earn a confirmation for the 2020 Olympics.
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cars got banned from 3rd in downtown seattle for 13 hours a day and i like it a lot
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Robocop is prophecy
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I’m sort of glad this exists, but it’s frankly cringeworthy to see people transferring their cyber-peasant love from Jobs to Musk in real time.
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Is this the place to post about my non car transportation devices??
I was in a car crash about six years ago that was so unpleasant to experience and deal with (the guy who hit me had Parkinsons’, he totaled my car and then sued me, then stopped suing me once all the insurance companies involved decided it was not my fault, etc etc) that I decided to drive cars as little as possible. They are hell to me and when I must operate them I am consumed with misery.
I live in LA. It is not very friendly for bikes. I live on the west side, which has better bike infrastructure than other parts of the city–but it’s all unfortunately extremely haphazard and low-effort. There are a lot of “sharroads”. Instead of bike lanes, we often just have roads with a big bike symbol painted on them… to persuade cars that they might see a bike there… and might have to share the road.
I also have type 1 diabetes, and on days when I am having a bad blood sugar time I have in the past been trapped at work or some other location because my blood sugar is too low or too high to safely bike/walk/kick scooter myself home. There is nothing worse than being stuck at work at 11 PM because you are too ill to move yourself!! Nadir memory: at my old job I spent one evening hunkered down beside my desk, worried that the cleaning staff would see me, chugging a liter of room temp water in an attempt to dilute my blood so my blood sugar would go down, my legs would stop hurting, and I could walk home. Non-ideal!!
So I wanted to commute without a car, but I also wanted to avoid being totally reliant on my own muscles, and I wanted to avoid the very bad buses in my part of the city (regular LA metro barely serves my location) so for a while I was using this: a foldable seated scooter that I bought used at half-price from a coworker. It goes ~17 miles per hour and is incredibly agile and light, so I was able to go places that a car or even a bike could not easily go. I was lifting it over curbs, retaining walls, etc. in order to develop a commute that spent the least possible amount of time on the road with cars.
It is called an “Urb-E” and they used to make them in the LA area, so for a while we had a couple of consumer-facing stores/repair joints for them in the city. But during the pandemic they abandoned this strategy (as far as I can tell, they do not even sell these vehicles anymore?) and now market themselves as a device for “last mile delivery”. I suppose they just got totally outcompeted by regular ebikes and scooters. They were very expensive and very difficult to repair at home.
And I guess I am an illustration of that. It’s such a pain to fix or replace popped inner tubes or tires on an urb-e. You gotta bolt the wheel to a workbench (cannot do this in my apartment) and pry the tire off with motorcycle spoons. So I decided to give the scooter away to someone more capable of repairing it, and get an ebike instead. After a bunch of research, I got a RadCity 5 Plus last week. Having an e-bike with a throttle means that if my blood sugar is diving, or if it’s so high that exercise will make me puke, I’ll still be able to get home by riding the throttle the entire way.
I have commuted with this two times so far, and gone biking for fun 1 time, and it works great. Having a motor on my bike in LA is fantastic because it means I can get the fuck out of all these gigantic deadly intersections as fast as possible. My one caveat about this bike is that it weighs a shit ton and I am so weak after two years indoors avoiding Covid that I cannot lift it. Otherwise it rules.
I am newly recommitting to my hope that I never have to commute by car again. I am going to get very strong and destroy Los Angeles with my new wheels.
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Imo like 2/3rds of cars easy should be replaced by scooters, ebikes and motorcycles. I spent several years commuting by light motorcycle here to downtown and every day it meant crossing the viaduct in bumper to bumper traffic comprised almost entirely of single occupants in SUVs the size of a WW2 tank
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I had a radcity I sold it when I stopped commuting, the throttle was great and it was a good vehicle for getting around but I hated it as an actual bike. Monstrously heavy, geared excessively low, the brakes always rubbed a little bit…
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I have a first-generation folding eBike that was built by this company here in Vancouver called Motorino who were hot shit a decade ago and have now sort of fallen behind the big manufacturers, I’ve taken very good care of it and I love it, I’m on my third battery
my wife got an Aventon Step-Thru (Aventon Level Step-Thru Review - GearLab) last summer at my urging and is very happy with it
I also have a Suzuki Gladius that I ride when I am not going somewhere with good bike lanes or bike paths, but there are a lot of those here, so it’s a solid mix
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I’m really feeling the monstrously heavy bit. I assume I will be able to handle it better once I get stronger but it really is the heaviest bike I have ever encountered, aside from the ones you can rent in Portland that are built like tanks.