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@omomo
catch you in my crap bag they'll think i've gone insane but i promise i will crap again Film archivist on the west coast
i have been building my next camera kit over the past year from Facebook Marketplace finds Canon EOS RT with Technical Back E lens to be acquired #believeinfilm
the process of furnishing my apartment continues at its glacial pace as i find the absolute perfect bookshelf on FB Marketplace, 15 months after moving in now my photo book and photo zine collection has a home, and I can start collecting literature I enjoy again #believeinfilm
Blue Iguana (1988), in which Dean Stockwell is an IRS agent in a neckbrace this was an insta-buy from Kino Lorber's mega sale
C1 any% speedrunning update: I can now execute a decent zig-zag in exactly one direction — left this makes the first floor of one of the most infamous levels in the game (Slippery Climb) really fucking fun
walking up to any gathering of three people and saying "well well well, if it isn't the..."
the Canada-only blue vinyl release of China Crisis's Working with Fire and Steel is high up on my wantlist as a vinyl collector
started reading Richard Brautigan and i'm glad i did because the entire hamburger sequence of So The Wind Won't Blow it All Away is really fucking funny
i've been watching YTPs for 20 years and this is still one of my favourite moments
my current two favourite Canadian films (Siege and Sonatine) both take place during real-world strikes (the 1981 Halifax police strike and the 1982 Montreal CTCUM transit strike)
looking at indie theatres in Calgary during my getaway there and the only thing of interest that's playing is... Come and See
explain your @ i would come home from work and open the door and like clockwork, this elderly himalayan cat would start slowly hopping down the stairs to meet me and be fed, so i would go "ohhh, Momo"
i won't ever reveal the source of my growing knowledge about 1970s and 1980s canadian cinema
1984 CBC made-for-TV movie about a 17-year-old girl who finds the solution for her teenage ennui by joining an anarchist art commune and driving a minivan full of C4 into a missile factory, all set to the backdrop of Toronto's New Wave music scene
the month I finally completed the Palme d'Or challenge and started watching films I'm actually interested in again
getting to watch old DVDs with true 24fps cadence on this TV feels like cheating i'm so used to seeing 24fps content on TVs and computer monitors that don't display it properly
i ventured deep into suburbia and was slobbered on by a very friendly dog to obtain this, a basically-unused W700B-series TV basically as good as it gets for this combination of size, image and 24p motion handling for Blu-Rays without spending half a grand on an OLED TV
found a period-correct Hitachi HTA-35F at Value Village, to go with the Hitachi HT-L33 turntable will eventually sell this setup or turn it into a B-system for my new office later this year listened to it through a pair of crappy tin-can earphones and it was like a religious experience