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  1. Bull Shannon

    Movies

    When I was younger I considered it an outlier in his filmography simply for the directness of the plot, but he's totally present in every frame of that film. There's even [ominous whooshing] over a shot of a grain elevator. You can sense the transcendental meditator in it; I especially love the...
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    STAR WARS! STAR WARS! STAR WARS

    Got caught up on Andor last night. I've got mixed feelings on the release strategy; the three-episode arcs are such clever ways of breaking down and serializing the narrative, but it's a bit hard to keep up with three hours a week. I know that pace is self-imposed, but as a listener of The...
  3. Bull Shannon

    Movies

    Caught David Lynch's The Straight Story on 35mm in town this weekend. Holy moly. I'd seen it before when I was a teenager on tv (I want to say on the Disney channel, but it may have been IFC), but it absolutely bowled me over this time around. The words I'm looking for are "emotionally...
  4. Bull Shannon

    Gardening

    Anyone have experience with and/or tips on tackling quackgrass, especially in patches where other plants are growing and I can't just smother/scorch it? Prevailing online wisdom recommends painting individual blades with Roundup or somesuch weedkiller.
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    Phish

    That makes perfect sense, especially with the Bend/Eugene/Gorge aspect; there are plenty of artists who actually haven't been in town for a while because they hit up Bend/Hayden Homes and cruise straight up to Seattle.
  6. Bull Shannon

    Phish

    I don't have skin in this game but I was talking to a coworker Friday who said they were seeing Phish at the Moda Center here in PDX on 4/20, and that it was their first show here in 25+ years? How the heck did that happen? They administer Phish stickers with your DEQ emissions test here.
  7. Bull Shannon

    2025 Reading Challenge

    Book 10: Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1), by Marcel Proust I didn’t think I’d ever try to read Proust. But I dropped into The Strand on a work trip in New York last month, and this “new” (20 years ago) translation jumped out at me. It seemed like the right moment. This was a...
  8. Bull Shannon

    Television

    I'm late to the game on Common Side Effects but it's great. Excellent animation, weird mix of funny and paranoid tones.
  9. Bull Shannon

    STAR WARS! STAR WARS! STAR WARS

    I'm not sure I understand the question
  10. Bull Shannon

    STAR WARS! STAR WARS! STAR WARS

    I will believe a new Star Wars movie when I'm seated in the theater
  11. Bull Shannon

    2025 Reading Challenge

    Book 6: Babel-17, by Samuel Delaney Delaney’s loomed in my list of to-reads, particularly his dense opus Dhalgren. This is an early novel from him, a Nebula winner considered his first major work. The ideas certainly fall into the category of mid-century progressive sci-fi, where a lot of...
  12. Bull Shannon

    Movies

    A very uneven movie, but "Won't somebody save Curlie?" lives in my head.
  13. Bull Shannon

    [ATTACH] (more. Pulp)

    (more. Pulp)
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    This Saturday, after the function, meet me at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs: we're...

    This Saturday, after the function, meet me at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs: we're throwing a kegger.
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    quiet tales of the quotidian desperation in realizing your partying days are over; they're...

    quiet tales of the quotidian desperation in realizing your partying days are over; they're detrimental to the vibe
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    I'm in a bad place (middle age) for this Craig Finn album.

    I'm in a bad place (middle age) for this Craig Finn album.
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    Criterion Club

    End of October, so I think right after the next sale. 🤞
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    Criterion Club

    Dang, these coupon codes may have added expiry dates, but the one they just sent for the Channels' bday is $25!
  19. Bull Shannon

    Television

    I thought it was good! Kind of a bummer, kind of cathartic. I know this was a slower season, but it worked for me.
  20. Bull Shannon

    Television

    dang, you skip one season of Drag Race…it has been so predictable for the last six or eight seasons!
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