Fall

Concept film about two girls climbing a 2000ft tower and of course shit goes wrong.

So-so. 

One good "scary" bit.

Smile

ok horror, nothing special

The Cog Is Dead - "The Death of the Cog"

cinematic, classic, circus, beautiful

Steam Powered Giraffe - "Honeybee"

Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean"

Jared Halley - "Pirates Of the Caribbean (He's a Pirate)" a capella

bloody fucking amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPLVszsHANo

Teddie Films (ft Israel Curtis, Ryan Richardson) - "The Star Wars that I Used To Know"

amazing joke on the Gotye song

Promare

Amazing anime, lots of computer anime taking the visual into abstractions (2D triangles floating to represent blood, dust, ...)

Scissor Sisters - "I can't decide"

So fucking good

Half Life / Half Life 2 story telling

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-narrative-had-to-be-baked-into-the-corridors-marc-laidlaw-on-writing-half-life

he was a rationalist rather than a populist - oppressing with appeals to reason, not emotion.

(this is not directly important to the story or the game or the article but the sentence itself is amazing)

[Marc] Laidlaw had the dev team explain the stories they were trying to tell, and helped them solve narrative problems through level design. “Lots of traps and detours and obstacles and occasional moments of breakthrough,” he says. “Really good level design tells its own story. You don’t need NPCs popping up to tell you what to do if your visual grammar is clear enough. Then when characters do pop up, they can say lines of dialogue that make them feel like characters instead of signposts.”

Big Lebowski (35mm)

<3

Censor

Quite good horror film where the censor slowly goes mad because of the terror she watches all the time. 

words with no English equivalent

the Danish word hygge. It means the comfortable, secure, and enjoyable feeling of a space, a gathering, an event. “Last night was so hyggelig”, or “your house is hyygglig”. I love it. Snuggly

Mono no aware - Japanese. Untranslatable, but roughly: wistful melancholy at the realization that living is ephemeral (over too soon).

Saudade - Portuguese. Also untranslatable but, approximately: The sadness of deep longing for one’s true homeland.

Կարոտ (karot / garod) — the state of longing for a place, time, person/s, interactions, events or even things, usually one’s home, homeland, loved ones. Similar to saudade but even more complex

The word "yalla" in Lebanese dialect has many meanings depending on its context. Could mean "I'm coming" or "hurry up", can be used to cheer someone on, or even be like a verbal "shrug".

Irish: craic. Example usage: "The craic was great". Meaning: you enjoyed yourself / had a fun time / were entertained and laughed a lot / had good chats / in good company. Can also mean news or gossip, i.e "What's the craic?" = "Any news?"

the Hungarian hiányérzet, which is the feeling that some unnamed, unknown thing that you can't quite put your finger on is missing.

Indonesian.

Kami = refers to a group of people that includes the speaker but not the person being spoken to.

Kita = refers to a group of people that includes the speaker & the person being spoken to.

in English, both words are simply referred to as "we".

Arabic: soubhiyé. That quiet time when you’re the only one awake in the house and can enjoy a cup of coffee before the day starts

I love 'sobremesa' in Spanish, which describes that chill time around the table with those you love - normally after you've finished eating, and you're just chatting and connecting

My favourite is the Japanese "Tsujigiri", the term for trying out your newly acquired sword by decapitating a random passer-by...

the Japanese word tsundoku (積ん読), meaning acquiring books and letting them pile up without reading them.

My grandfather would say the Finnish word "sisu." Loosely translated, "stoic determination, tenacity of purpose, grit, bravery, resilience and hardiness," but it's hard to describe in English. You might hate doing a thing, but the thing has to be done, so you will do the thing.

Titane

Worthy successor, the director, of David Cronenberg, as she made yet another amazing body horror film.  Girl with titanium skull has strange obsessions. 

Director said it’s the second installment, after Raw, of films exploring unquestioned, unlimited love. 

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan, derelict

Flotsam - cargo that fell overboard

Jetsam - cargo jettisoned overboard intentionally

Lagan - cargo at the bottom of the sea, still retrievable 

Derelict - cargo at the bottom of the sea, irretrievable

Bones and All

Fun quiet cannibal roadtrip where a young girl finds out her cannibal background (and that of her mum, who ate her own hands) and goes on a roadtrip with a fellow "eater"

Twice or so interesting edit with quick "zoom" shots.

Eddie Vedder - "Long Nights"

sad and forlorn

Undone

doing a bit of a weird thing with shaving and bathroom cleaning after midnight, but this seems great. 

Existential, time travel.

Diego Crespo - "Geek Mythology: The Religious, and Spiritual Folklore surrounding Programming"

https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/geek-mythology-the-religious-and

A Koan is a Zen Buddhist story, question, or dialogue that is told to provoke a deeper understanding of a subject. Many programmers count themselves as Zen Buddhists. Whether due to the stress of Silicon Valley, or the insanity that comes from trying to speak to something as unfeeling or unforgiving as a computer, that drives them to Buddhism.

Philip Rogaway - "The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work"

https://notes.ekzhang.com/papers/moral-crypto                

The document would become known as the Russell-Einstein manifesto. [...] It speaks of the existential threat to mankind posed by nuclear weapons. Its final passage sounds desperately plaintive as Russell writes:

    We appeal, as human beings, to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.