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avril@sego· 1d

good week for seeing Louise Weard on various screens

a screenshot of my recent activity on letterboxd. I watched Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (5), F for Fake (4.5), 3 Idiots (2.5), and Castration Movie Expansion Pack i. You're Weird, But I Love You! (3.5)

avril@sego· 20d

a screenshot from the video "buy my bed" by Brian David Gilbert. in the foreground, Brian and his sister Laura have intense expressions and are green screened in with significant blotchiness from the green screen partially filtering their clothes and hair. in the background, Laura is sitting on the bed with her knees angled sharply upward holding a cigar near her mouth, gazing absently to the right. subtitles at the bottom read as follows:
- I like to smoke cigars on beds!
- [snores] Buy my bed.

avril@sego· 22d

some real heavy hitters this week. btw: follow me boxd.it/2gSJb

a screenshot of my letterboxd recent activity. starting from most recent, I've watched Persona (5/5), Come and See (5/5), T2 Trainspotting (4/5), and The Rider (3.5/5).

avril@sego· 26d

there's an episode of The Animated Series where they get de-aged for a bit. baby Uhura is adorable:

a screenshot from Star Trek: The Animated Series. a child version of Uhura sits on a desk, while a woman holds her in place.

avril@sego· Jun 18

oshawott thanks you

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avril@sego· Jun 13

apparently Jesse Eisenberg turned down playing Mark Zuckerberg again because people keep coming up to him acting as though they are the same person, which isn't *that* unusual as a thing that annoys an actor, except that this isn't even the first time he's had to deal with this

JESSE EISENBERG: "People on the street say mean things to me."
INTERVIEWER: "Like what?"
JESSE EISENBERG: "I get called Napoleon Dynamite because I have curly hair. I live in New York City and I ride a bicycle. I always bike down 9th Avenue and there’s this kid who goes to school there named Abraham. Every time I pass him, he calls me Napoleon Dynamite. He screams it out and his friends laugh. That was a fine movie but I wasn’t in it."
INTERVIEWER: "What do you say back?"
JESSE EISENBERG: "I say, 'Please Abraham, I’m not that man.'"

avril@sego· May 24

something that is achievable at this level but is still wildly improbable is getting a score of 69,420. I've done it exactly once with probably thousands of games ending close but not quite there

a Threes game over screen with a score of 69,420

avril@sego· May 11

she's like laundry?!?!?

Metro Slice, a calico cat, is in a laundry basket. it's as though she's laundry

avril@sego· May 10

the PriceMaster, a fella in a golden mask, stands in front of a microphone. there's a subtitle that says "FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS" in yellow text. or it might be green, I'm colorblind and not sure on this one

avril@sego· Apr 24

movies.

screenshot of my recent activity on letterboxd.
Last House on the Left (1972) (1.5/5)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (3.5/5)
Three Colours: Red (4.5/5)
After Yang (3/5)

avril@sego· Apr 23

saw some folks doing this. here's mine.

an "about me: movies" grid. here are the categories and the films I listed:
favorite movie: Summer Wars
favorite director: Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
favorite screenplay: Before Sunset
favorite cinematography: Where Is the Friend's House?
favorite editing: Speed Racer
overhated: Megalopolis
underrated: Immaculate
overrated: Amelie
needs a sequel: Hot Rod
criminally overlooked: Sacco & Vanzetti
favorite actor: Synecdoche, New York (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
favorite actress: Tar (Cate Blanchett)
best score: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
best songs: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
not usually my thing, but...: Presence
"it's just so much fun": Wet Hot American Summer
best with friends: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
best old movie: Bicycle Thieves
best long movie: Lawrence of Arabia
everyone should watch: Memories of Murder

avril@sego· Apr 22

it was right in front of our eyes all along

the poster for hit feature film Ella McCay. the poster shows Emma Mackey, who plays the similarly named title character, posed in roughly a mirror image of the sheeh pose.

avril@sego· Apr 19

my roommate is playing Tomodachi Life and allowed me to make one important addition to their little island

D'Vana Tendi from Star Trek: Lower Decks in the game Tomodachi Life. she has the "go-getter" personality and is outgoing, sociable, optimistic, and passionate.

avril@sego· Apr 3

2 stars is good.

my ratings curve on letterboxd. all the scores between 1 and 4 are pretty close to level, with noticable dips at .5 and 4.5, and a slight dip at 3.5.

avril@sego· Mar 29

they put Carol Sturka in the video game

a photo of a TV showing the game Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. there's a Mii of Carol Sturka. her top three foods are butter cookie, paella, and fried egg.

avril@sego· Mar 29

big spheal

avril@sego· Mar 24

one more that I don't think qualifies as "underrated" but is just nice:

Roger Ebert Hails Human Existence As 'A Triumph'

April 4, 2013
CHICAGO—Calling the overall human experience “poignant,” “thought-provoking,” and a “complete tour de force,” film critic Roger Ebert praised existence Thursday as “an audacious and thrilling triumph.” “While not without its flaws, life, from birth to death, is a masterwork, and an uplifting journey that both touches the heart and challenges the mind,” said Ebert, adding that while the totality of all humankind is sometimes “a mess in places,” it strives to be a magnum opus and, according to Ebert, largely succeeds at this goal. “At times brutally sad, yet surprisingly funny, and always completely honest, I wholeheartedly recommend existence. If you haven’t experienced it yet, then what are you waiting for? It is not to be missed.” Ebert later said that while human existence’s running time was “a little on the long side,” it could have gone on much, much longer and he would have been perfectly happy.

avril@sego· Mar 24

I can't narrow it down to just one, so here are a few favs that I think are deeply underrated:

Kidnapped Teen Freed, Though Freedom Is Its Own Kind Of Prison, Is It Not?

BEDFORD, IN—The Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department confirmed Wednesday that Jessica Paulsen, a 15-year-old who went missing last month, has been freed from the home of two men accused of kidnapping her, although isn’t freedom itself, as both a figurative concept and a state of being, merely another kind of prison, one that entraps us all?

Wendy's To Phase Out Unpopular Hamburger Sandwich

DUBLIN, OH—Representatives for the restaurant chain Wendy’s announced Tuesday that due to the item’s continually dismal performance, the company would be discontinuing the widely disliked hamburger sandwich.

Arby's Now Charging $2.99 To Let Customers Go Behind Counter, Grab Handfuls Of Roast Beef

ATLANTA—During a press event at Arby’s headquarters last week, the company officially launched its new $2.99 Grab-N-Go Meal Deal, which allows patrons to go behind the counter at any franchise location and grab as much roast beef as they can with their bare hands.

“We’re thrilled to announce an exciting new dining option that lets customers step right into our kitchen and dig hands-first into our famous slow-roasted beef,” spokesman Gavin Milne said while standing in front of a cardboard cutout that depicted Oven Mitt—the Arby’s mascot—cupping a steaming mound of beef slices. “As soon as we ring up your transaction, you have 15 seconds to grab all the meat you can carry, and however much you manage to bring back across the counter is yours to eat—all for under $3! Who could resist?”

17-Year Cicadas Horrified To Learn About 9/11

May 7, 2013
NEW YORK—Following their synchronized emergence this week after gestating underground since 1996, a colossal swarm of 17-year cicadas were horrified today to learn about the events of September 11, 2001. “Holy shit, are you serious?” said one member of the East Coast brood of winged insects, expressing its continued shock and horror about the coordinated terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 3,000 people. “They just flew the planes right into the fucking buildings? Man, oh, man. People must have just been completely freaking out. Christ, I know I would have been.” At press time, the 17-year cicadas were beginning to express serious doubts about how two structures supported by reinforced concrete and steel beams could just collapse like that.

avril@sego· Mar 15

my Oscars chili this year is a few small beans

an assortment of chili ingredients. at the front of the photo is one can of Modelo.

avril@sego· Mar 4

Sensei Sergio St. Carlos dancing next to his car. he's had a few small beers.

avril@sego· Feb 9

🙂‍↕️

my username appears in the vicinity of two clusters labeled "Star Trek Fan Community" and "Queer Leftist Creative Professionals."

avril@sego· Dec 26

it's important that you arrange your Christmas Eve and Christmas Day viewing in strict worst to best order. organization is critical.

my recent activity screenshot from letterboxd. I gave Tokyo Godfathers a 5, The Holdovers a 4.5, The Muppets Christmas Carol a 4, and Die Hard a 3.5. the first three were rewatches.

avril@sego· Dec 18

best part about Christmas lights is unplugging them for the night and being reminded that this poster I own is glow in the dark

my apartment with all the lights off. there's some light coming in through a window, but the only thing that's really visible is a glow in the dark poster for the movie Dance Freak.

avril@sego· Dec 10

I have something controversial to say: they should make these with space for seven cups arranged in a circle, with one in the center. it wouldn't be that much harder to carry and would frequently allow a group order to fit in just one container instead of requiring one in both hands.

product photo of cardboard cup holder. it holds four cups in a rectangle

avril@sego· Nov 13

he made lieutenant in at least one universe! good for him.

lieutenant Harry Kim from Star Trek: Lower Decks

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avril@sego· Oct 17

could be anyone, really

the anonymous source from the quoted post discusses making a movie called The Abyss in 1988 that involved working with submersible systems.

avril@sego· Sep 25

this is the perfect score for me. if you look at games with a metacritic score of 55 it's universally games where you're like "I had absolutely no idea that spinoff existed! wow, the GBA truly had it all, huh," and if that's not me I don't know what is

a rating of my influence on bluesky. I got a 5.5! wow

a metacritic score for Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. it got a 55. wow!

avril@sego· Sep 14

I was thinking about this prompt and then I remembered the best tumblr blog of all time