Have ninety final projects to do...and yet runescape is starting to call my name

Finally got around to listening to Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. It's kind of great? If there was ever a nightmare opera, this is it

Been reading a lot of the Parker novels--there's something to be said about how they get progressively meaner and darker and about how that reflects rising American insecurities as the 60s became the 70s

A crucial part of growing up is realizing that you have to meet art at its own level and that it's okay to like things like Shadow the Hedgehog as long as that feeling is deep and genuine

A lot about Trump, and the MAGA movement on the whole, begins to make a lot more sense once you realize that Trump is spiritually maoist

Was Tito the world's first Bloons TD6 player???

I remember watching the anime years and years ago. Such a great, operatic series once you get past the first 26 episodes or so

Namely--an overreliance on faulty statistics, ignoring the reality of local conditions, and putting ideology ahead of sound practices.
Still relatively early on in the book, though, so we'll see how the parallels hold up.

Finally got around to reading a Bright Shining Lie and it's pretty incredible how the problems which plagued the U.S in Vietnam also plagued Mao during the Great Leap Forward

A person in my class told me Morrowind was boring and I just had to hit them with the Telvanni stare

I don't think I've read a new release in years simply because my backlog is already full of other, older books which caught my eye years ago

Every so often YouTube recommends me another "documentary" about Boogie2988 and a deep and abiding sadness washes over me

Goodreads should have a little heart button like Letterboxd does so you can differentiate between "I give this book 4 stars because it's really fun" and "I'm giving this book 4 stars out of grudging respect"

System Shock 2 (1999)

Deep Red!
Probably my favorite Argento film.

It has a criterion!
There's also many, many recordings of the original opera--there's about 15 different versions of it. I have the one conducted by Bonynge, with Domingo and Sutherland singing, and while I don't agree with all of B.'s cuts, the singing is magnificent.

Also--I feel like putting down the Tales of Hoffman is cheating, since it is a recording of an opera, but the whole thing has such a bizarre, dreamlike atmosphere that it's certainly horror adjacent.

A classic!

The first one is a very good family movie but the second one might genuinely be one of the greatest films of all time

Hello!

Richard II a banger...up there for most underrated Shakespeare play methinks

Marxists born after 1993 can't establish a dictatorship of the proletariat...all they know how to do is play disco elysium, eat hot chip and falsify

The face of a man who's lost it all

Movies should bring back overtures. Imagine going to go see Red One and it begins with ten minutes of classical music

Is Falstaff the perfect opera? It's just so full of life, so full of musical invention, so full of joy.
Rigoletto is right up there too--brilliantly complex in its simplicity. I used to have large parts of the Pavarotti-Sutherland-Milnes recording memorized

It is, in my opinion, the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century, if not the greatest novel of the 20th century period. It is also no longer available for purchasein Russian

It's a welcome respite from their usual lyrical style, and I'm not surprised why it was their big comeback hit. It's a bit of a bop

When so many of your songs are wrapped in this ironic whimsy, it all begins to feel a bit...insincere? Maybe a bit annoying? 'When Do I get to Sing My Way' is probably their best song because it breaks that mold and obviously comes from a place of deep frustration and anger.