Matt Hanson

As Martin Amis pointed out, if you can't be funny you can't be serious. And if DJT is anything, he's not a serious person. He's an unserious person in a serious position. This is our time.

team Raph 4lyfe

"Look how they massacred my boy" is an iconic line spoken by Vito Corleone (played by Marlon Brando) in the 1972 crime film The Godfather. He says it while grieving over the bullet-riddled body of his oldest son, Sonny Corleone and asks the mortician to make him look presentable for his mother.

#MovieSky In honor of spooky season, here's an old piece I did on John Carpenter's The Fog www.thesmartset.com/in-a-fog/

Not every movie you engage with will be good and that's okay but every movie you refuse to engage with will be bad. Watching movies with people who refuse to engage is like being stuck on a vacation with people determined to not have fun. They think they are witty but they are wet blankets.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

this and El-Sayed's I'm not a weasel I'm a wolverine and telling him to shove that buckeye is all of the yes. No more of this "we're the nice Republicans sorry for existing" bullshit. Come out swinging your progressive agenda and don't apologize for it.

I remember my Dad informing me when I was young, don't remember the specifics, in his Boston accent : 'don't be a weeahd person, Matt' Something inside me just balked at hearing that.

Just woke up from a dream and I thought "that was pretty good" like it was a movie

Same energy:

Basked in the hazy, wizened, ruminative vibes of Time Out Of Mind the other day while working because it's one of my favorites of his. Little did I know it was released 29 years ago on that day. Fragments, unlike many other box sets, really works on its own artsfuse.org/271464/music...

A fun thing about President Business is that he fucking sucks at business worse than anyone else ever has This is an explicit promise to blow up the national debt in a way that would make Hugo Chávez look like a tight-fisted number-crunching white-shirt fiscal conservative *for an election stunt*

"This is an administration with zero policy expertise, zero patience for collecting evidence, and zero interest in getting the right solution. They care only about what talking points will get them through the next news cycle, tomorrow’s consequences be damned." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-loil...

“‘Do or Do Not, There Is No “Try”’: Negative Dialectics and the Limits of Language in Jedi Pedagogy”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8psr... just discovered these guys and thought I'd share #MusicSky #BluesSky

Let's see, I think I have covered all my usual fixations... Star Trek, vintage Eurovision, dancing on DW Griffith's grave... Oh yes! Conrad Veidt. We love Conrad Veidt. Rawr! Hated Nazis. Loved good beer. Prince of a guy

what a movie that is

THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE...had the surprise of relaxed virtuosity, as if he'd just discovered, at last, how to make movies, by a new, ironically matter-of-fact, thin-textured method—the visual equivalent of simple declarative sentences. (1977)

this is a stupid decision by Hasan if he actually cares about getting the people he supports elected you can think this is true and you can still consider optics enough not to go on “the Axios show” and make sure AES gets to spend the whole next week being asked about it at every event

uncanny how these two skeets followed one another on my feed

John Coltrane's Centennial comes on September 23. I'll be listening to at least one Coltrane track each day of the month. #Trane100 Let's begin with "A Love Supreme, Pt. 1", released in 1965. McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMCH...

Dead horse alert: the fact that the average US voter doesn't understand this decades-long fact is Exhibit A of how broken the US media environment is & a lack of Dem comms. It is considered a matter of fact that Repubs are better for the economy. Will never change until info environment changes.

Of course they built a highway to the Danger Zone, as if public transit to the Danger Zone was never an option. They had the funding. They could’ve done it.

Ever wondered what the old school Lord of the Flies movie might have sounded like with Neutral Milk Hotel, Pink Floyd, Rage and Radiohead, among others, as the soundtrack? #MovieSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FS...

Obsessed with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance #JohnFord #MovieSky Here's something I wrote about it: www.thesmartset.com/print-the-le...

Ever wanted to see a silent film from a legendary German director with a specially curated soundtrack including music from Belafonte, Glass, Stones, Massive Attack, Tame Impala, et al Now's Your Chance! #MusicSky #MovieSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRW-...

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“As someone who read ‘Entertainment Weekly’ in my high school and college years, ‘Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System’s Last Hurrah’ is a nostalgic trip down memory lane,” @unclecrizzle.bsky.social writes. crookedmarquee.com/barbarians-a...

Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...

I had a chance for one more show last Tues. Had a day of utter shit so I needed some primal scream therapy. And I got it. Then a lot of love for Dolly and then covers, blues, Brazil, Dylan Thomas, and closing out with another song that is in my blood. I will return tidal.com/playlist/436...

artsfuse.org/333300/film-... #Scorsese #MovieSky My take on Taxi Driver at 50 with a shout out to some of its wonderful cameos. Also appearances from DH Lawrence, Pauline Kael, Bruce Springsteen, Bernie Goetz, and Bernard Herrmann.