Thursday





I don't think I'll ever understand the reasons why I do the stupid shit that I do, but I know that hearing this song was the reason why I had to leave my Mojito.

Sunday




You cannot get any funkier than that.

Artwork from Hozhoni artist Krissi Schott. Titled "My Boyfriend (James Earl Jones)"

...and yes, that is his penis

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I love my job

yum





This is probably one of the best punk films ever. One of the most iconic films by Derek Jarman, Jubilee stars Jenny Runacre, and Ian Charleson; along with a few punk figures, such as Wayne County, or Jayne County, Toyah Willcox, and the very sexy Adam Ant. Queen Elizabeth I travels to late twentieth-century Britain to discover a tawdry and depressing landscape where life mostly seems aimless and held cheap. Three post-punk girls waste away their vacuous existence as best they can, from time-to-time straying to murder to relieve the boredom. Madly great.



The greatest film that Alfred Hitchcock never made! When director Henri-Georges Clouzot bought the film rights to the original novel, he reportedly beat Hitchcock by only a matter of hours. The film is based on Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac's novel "Celle qui n'était plus" (She Who Was No More). Hitchcock also attempted to buy the rights to this novel; Boileau and Narcejac subsequently wrote "D'Entre les Morts" (From Among the Dead) especially for Hitchcock, who filmed it as Vertigo.

So this beautiful black and white is set in a second-rate boarding school run by the tyrannical and mean Michel Delassalle (Meurisse). The school, though, is owned by Delassalle's teacher wife, the frail Christina (Clouzot), and Delassalle flaunts his relationship with Nicole Horner (Signoret), a teacher at the school. Rather than antagonism, the two women are shown to have a somewhat close relationship, primarily based on their apparent common hatred of Michel, who is physically and emotionally abusive to both. Unable to stand his mistreatment any longer, Nicole devises a plan. Though hesitant at first, Christina ultimately consents to help Nicole. Using a threatened divorce to lure Michel to Nicole's apartment building in a remote village several hundred kilometers away, Christina sedates him. The two women then drown him in a bathtub and dump his body in the school's neglected swimming pool. The simple murder plot then goes haywire, when Michel's corpse disappears, prompting strange rumors of his reappearance which grow more and more substantial as the film careens wildly towards its breathless conclusion. Later remade as a greatly inferior 1996 Hollywood feature with Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani. A dark, dank thriller with a much-imitated "shock" ending, Diabolique (The Devils) is a masterpiece of Grand Guignol suspense! 
 


Tuesday





this is kinda what slime funk sounds like...

Sunday


These guys are fucking ridiculous, but for some reason I can't seem to turn away. At first watch, you'd think they were all about the party. And they ARE a really freaking fun party! But as Die Antwoord puts it: "We've very funny. But we're fokken serious." So for now, I'm going to continue enjoying them & dream about dancing around in gold leggings or ratsuit-onsies... and then when I feel like taking them a bit seriously, I'll google all the South African cultural references they make and educate myself a little more about their crazy world.