inessentials? in this economy?

@inessentials

Like Annie Dillard, "I decided to hate myself, to make popcorn and read." I teach philosophy (17th/18th C European + philosophy of film).

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  1. Nothing from Dondé Están Los Ladrones? so ... disappointing.

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  2. It would be weird to do your job live on TV

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  3. To be honest, I learned more about early 20th century American culture (from Prohibition to advertising culture to party lines) from old movies than I did from college courses (and I was a history major).

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  5. January 2020 first views (pre-2010 only): Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies, 88) The Long Day Closes (Davies, 92) Love on Delivery (Chow/Lee, 94) Mrs. Miniver (Wyler, 42) The Fog of War (Morris, 03) The Holly and the Ivy (O’Ferrall, 52) Nanook of the North (Flaherty, 22)

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  6. And… there’s no sound on anything (but menu noises) for the on my Roku. Sigh.

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  7. Sick. Tired. Crabby. Stressed. Do your thing, The Best Years of Our Lives.

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  8. The new Star Wars just left town. Knives Out, which opened before Thanksgiving, is still playing.

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  9. Phuck physics.

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  10. I’ve got good news soon for people who live in Oxford, Mississippi, and like movies.

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  12. I never got around to it, but I was going to do a “best films of the 2010s that I didn’t see on nearly enough best films of the 2010s lists,” or I could just remind you that Damsels in Distress gets better on each viewing.

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  13. I hope PARASITE wins the best picture , but it has nothing left to prove at this point. The academy very much does.

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  14. Teresa Wright, 1941-1947: WIlliam Wyler (x3) Sam Wood (x2) Alfred Hitchcock Raoul Walsh

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  15. The Little Foxes, Mrs. Miniver, The Pride of the Yankees, Shadow of a Doubt, Casanova Brown, and The Best Years of Our Lives is an all-time great run.

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  16. Brewer’s yeast (Milwaukee) Or, for more teenage years: Manure (Milwaukee exurbs)

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  17. I took all the cold medicines, hoping one would do the trick, but it seems equally likely that they all cancel each other out.

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  19. gonna form all my political beliefs solely from headlines of articles I won’t read by media outlets I don’t trust

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  20. Sick enough that everything is difficult. Not so sick that I can give up and say I don’t need to get this stuff done for tomorrow.

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