I know I just posted a Beatles video, and I know no one at all reads this website, but I can’t help but post this. At least for me, at least for tonight, this is the best song ever recorded. It’s probably true for millions of people on a million different nights in their lives, but tonight it’s true for me and I want to just put it out there as a song that will, at least for as long as I’ve paid for this hosting, be the best song ever. Hopefully that is a long time, but who can really say. At least at some point I put something up that said that “This is the best thing there is in this category.” It doesn’t matter so much if it’s “true” or if my opinion matters. The important thing to me is that I found something I think is really really really fucking good and I let you know that I think that. So here it is, something that is really really really fucking good.
If you put together Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner, Howard Hawks, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart you know you are gonna get something good and get something good you do. I love a good film-noir and The Big Sleep is one of the greatest. The married couple, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart have such amazing on screen chemistry and the dialogue for this movie is just fantastic. Seriously God-tier banter here. It’s a pretty movie too if you like the whole noir thing. If you can’t follow the plot don’t worry, it’s a convoluted mess and even Howard Hawks had to wire Raymond Chandler to figure out what is going on. Here is a good article about the making of the movie and the relationship between Hawks, Bogart and Bacall.
Bo Burnham is great, and I genuinely think Inside is a work of genius on a number of levels. It contains some fabulous, and what I consider to be accurate social commentary and it’s hilarious while also sounding pretty decent. It is also a great encapsulation of what it was like living in the U.S. during COVID. Also, yes I am aware of the terrific irony in my posting this to my website where I post my opinions. Inside is on Netflix.
This movie is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best and one of my favorites of his. This also happens to be the best entrance of any character in any movie ever. Grace Kelly just floats in like the magically elegant angel she is. Hitchcock was a master.
Here, Sean Plott, or Day[9] as he is known on the internet and in the Starcraft community, talks about his experiences with Starcraft. You don’t have to know anything or give a single shit about Strarcraft to really appreciate his passion for it. To me, this is proof that anything with enough depth can have value to you if you let yourself be passionate about it. This gets way more emotional than you probably expect. Sean is also a great story teller and very entertaining and someone I have looked up to for a long time. Trust me it’s worth watching to the end. Sean will inspire you if you watch till the end.
This is the original 1988 American Akira trailer. I’m not a huge fan of anime and was kind of opposed to it for a long time, but this movie and Miyazaki’s movies showed me that a lot can be done with the art form/style.
This film showed me that movies can be much more than simple entertainment. It’s something special in my opinion. Terrence Malick is the expert at conveying emotion with a camera.
This is the video I’ve probably watched the most on YouTube. Radiohead has a special space in my heart. This band showed me the wide range of possibilities in music and how a band or musician can, and arguably should progress throughout their careers, always exploring new possibilities.
If I could make everyone watch just one video, it would probably be this one. It’s called This is Water and here is the transcript in it’s entirety. This is by David Foster Wallace unless that wasn’t clear.