Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

short playlist;

"Spice Up Your Life"
"If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)"
"Body Movin'"

... about halfway through "Missionary Man" I finished cleaning the stovetop, the tub, the toilet and unloading the dishwasher, and topped off my Jack-and-Coke.

at this point I'm just going for hip grind, so it's time for "It's Raining Men" again. *sassy head bob*

We're all clunking along at our little lives, which are hard enough; bad work days, insomnia, losing friends, a mindful of bad memories and bad self-talk, etc etc. So why is it people who have fucking everything always make it more difficult?

Running On A Treadmill https://youtu.be/rJvC_4cwtlQ via @YouTube

the dog song!

I really feel like some of the best remembered movies out there, the game changers, feature really incredible dialogue.

I was thinking about Ep IV, and how there are all these little awesome one-line keys to character scattered throughout the script. Luke straight up tells you that he's bored or curious enough to go looking at exactly the sort of people you don't want to bother; Tarkin admits he'd rather massacre civilians unrelated to his war as long as it's an effective terror tactic in the same scene that Leia does the most heartfelt resistance leader speech since Casablanca.

Going beyond that, I was thinking about how the initial exchange between Deckard and Rachel completely nails the rabid fire conversation in film noir. The Germans in Raiders of the Lost Ark get this somewhat formal, stilted language which definitely conveys threat and tells you they're not as slangy and informal as our American heroes. The Godfather's characters definitely have speech patterns that give you a clue of who they are, and what their world is like, similarly because Michael is such a contrast in how he speaks that his eventual embrace of his father's position is huge.

I bet there are a whole batch of other examples where really subtle language use are what really pushes a movie.

Thankfully, I realized that there's no reason I *shouldn't* treat myself to pelmeni. Eating what I feel like from my stores uses them up, and making myself eat stuff I made just to use it up makes cooking from a hobby into a chore, which doesn't honor my hobby.

I remain angry; like so many things in this country, this is intended to hurt anyone AFAB and poor, and if those victims are Black then the evil people in charge view it as a bonus.

@LexYeen PLEASE tell me you've seen this https://youtu.be/5r-R070qHYw

*slightly off key*
why do birds suddenly appear
every time you are near?
just like me, they long to be close to you
why do stars fall down from the sky
every time you walk by?
just like me, they long to be close to you
*jerky robotic motions*

Is there something going on with Amaroq or something? I keep trying to open Mastodon on my phone and no luck, but it opens on my laptop.

y'know I'm already a bad southerner for
* leaving the state
* not enjoying football
* being Jewish
* being Queer
* joining the NAACP
* joining the ACLU (no longer a member)
etc

so I think at this point, fuck it, may as well dump that brown sugar in my grits, what're they gonna do, excommunicate me?

They're madmen I tell you, madmen! If you hurry for the detention level you just might catch them. *jazz hands*

"into the chute flyboy"
"get in there, ya big furry oaf, I don't care what you smell"
"GRAAAAAAAAAA"

your obligatory listening to soundtrack again movie quote

https://twitter.com/ruko220/status/1520342318657667072

today's oh no she's hot

again, I'm probably gonna wind up as this really crusty guy with theoretically leftist views but no optimism left, seeing anti-semites and homophobes everywhere.

ugh, I forgot that looking for firearms reference, like firearms anything, takes you into this pit of people who have masturbatory fantasies about "home defense" (English language translation; "about shooting Blacks, Queers and protesters"). Eh. I'm here to look at visuals.

oh yeah, that's right, it's International Day of Labor. Solidarity.✊

Imho, Twitter is a Twitter psy-op to troll Twitter.

Even more flag and decal vehicles. I gotta say for a “polarized” country the furthest left you see as car decoration is like what, a Medicare for all sticker compared to… y’know, all of this?

Spending money is scary. Can’t I get subsidized by someone who wants their own pet artist and also [incredibly lewd description]?

I was smelling rain and new growth this morning and; there’s a part of LotR where Legolas is talking about how the forest smells. “The green smell,” ha ha weed humor and Tolkien spending more time on scenery than people, right? But, Tolkien’s Britain was profoundly polluted. How the woods smell must have been REALLY significantly different to him.