Puke, Tears and Semen

18 May

I liked this scene a lot because talk of reliving the past works really well in the context of the frame narrative. Like Gatsby is reimagining a relationship with Daisy he never had, Nick is looking back at the 20s through alcohol and nostalgia blurred rose colored glasses. From his psychiatrist’s, he watches his youth in the same twisted, voyeuristic way he watched Gatsby and Daisy. The parties and the car chases are so lavish and outlandish because Nick can’t perfectly repeat the past in his narration. He is no longer there, and arguably never was (observing everything as only a naive alcoholic bystander). Only exaggerated, fragmented memories remain and this is the visual yarn Luhrmann delivers.

Maybe if the pacing of the film wasn’t awful and the modernistic elements didn’t seem so half-assed and incongruent then these neat narrative subtleties wouldn’t have been lost in the eccentricity of the whole thing. Or maybe I’m full of shit. Either way Jordan was hawwwt.

.

(Source: gatsbyful, via herheartwillmend)

If the experimental, idiosyncratic filmmaker Jim Jarmusch formed a band, what kind of music would it play? On this episode of All Songs Considered, you can hear the answer with a new song and EP from the group Jarmusch calls SQÜRL.

Also on the show: Remarkable new electronic music from Baths; the atmospheric English pop trio Daughter; beautiful, ramshackle pop from singer Sam Phillips; power punk and a healthy dose of humor from The Front Bottoms and the melodic and transfixing rock of Lemuria.

Dayum Lemuria. Can’t wait to see you!

14 May

mattfractionblog:

sad-teeth:

So today Angelina Jolie had double mastectomy, which is the removal of one’s breasts, to prevent Breast cancer. So instead of praising Angelina on her bravery, men on Twitter decided to ridicule her, even calling her stupid for removing her breasts. For those of you on Tumblr that are attacking Feminists about being delusional about sexism against women and misogyny here’s your fucking proof that sexism and misogyny exists.

LADIES: not that you don’t already have enough to do, but it is your job from here on out to NOT FUCK THESE PEOPLE. Write down their names. Remember them. Do you know them in the real world? Do you or someone you know know any of these people, and might you find yourself in a fuck/not-fuck sitch at some point int he future? DO NOT MAKE THAT DECISION. These people are quite literally too stupid to risk the broken condom. Let them furtively sprut into gym socks until the end of all things lest their moronic seed spill forth into our collective future.