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  1. On 5/11/2019 at 8:35 PM, eugene said:

    high life - a pretensions, uninspired and meandering mess about cum doctors in space and bad rapey people. too many useless, naturalist shots of a baby, too many annoying art house mannerisms that suck all energy out of the film, and non-human, hollow dialogue.

    High life has now leaked and is available to download from your favourite torrent site.

  2. I think perhaps your gripes may be with the format that they are trying to emulate, sticking with that whilst keeping it Partridge hasn’t been easy but I think they pulled it off. It definitely has goofy moments like when he sings the songs that lead into segments, and the lookalike alone made the series worthwhile. And whilst pricks like Pierce Morgan are being employed it’s not completely unfeasable that Partridge couldnt find work either.

  3. I don't watch Alien to be terrified.

     

    Trucking beyond the outer rim lured by mysterious distress beacons on shadowy planetoids is simply who I am. Alien isn't merely home (a tender lovin comfort blanket if you like), it is everything, a fertilising formative event. That atmospheric headspace is probably why I later became obsessed with things like Metroid and Autechre as a teenager.

     

    The Nostromo thriller is the mere tip of an intimated plentiful iceberg, an enchanting sci-fi universe in which my mind and dreams were seeded and ran wild. I've always loved the sci-fi aspect of the film moreso than the horror.

     

    The way people go on about loving Star Wars as a kid, that was me and Alien. I guess it might terrify people, but that is beside the point of why I love it. It also provides enchantment, solace, comfort and creative stimulation.

    Outstanding post.

  4. even though i feel too old (i.e. not a teenager anymore) to be enticed by romantisation of poverty á hamsun's hunger or a beat lifestyle (read quite a few beat/counterculture works; fariñas been down so long is a personal favourite) there's still something extremely appealing/fascinating about those books. to my slight shame i can't get over it or make up my mind about whether it's just a privileged middle class trip. they're always about lonely men, too. i think watching into the wild in my teens was a really formative experience lol

    That’s fine, I kind of envy that as I wish I felt similar. I read Drop City by TC Boyle in my teens instead which sadly may have made me more of a cynical prick.

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    That book is so special to me. I bought it when I was about 13/14yrs old because the cover haunted me. I was not ready for any sort of 'literature' at all, I mainly read Clive Barker and Stephen King. That Book did something to me that is beyond description

    I can imagine. While reading it I felt a bit sorry I hadn’t picked it up 25 years ago. It would’ve made much more impact then.

     

    Youth is wasted on the young, but a certain class of books is definitely also wasted on the middle aged.

    I felt a bit like this when I read ‘On The Road’ in my twenties. If I had been a teenager it probably would have blew my mind.

  6. Corbyn has been good but I think his numbers up. Wouldn’t mind seeing Yvette Cooper have a crack, after May it will be refreshing to see a normal woman in politics and Pontefract is a fucking shithole so hopefully she has a good idea about normal struggles.

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