Neil Bahadur

I have completed my spiritual awakening era

Skipping Ella Mackay because in my mind James L. Brooks made Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News and then retired. It's better that way

2025

Magellan
Death Stranding 2*
Die My Love
Gangsterism
Sinners
Blue Heron
Marty Supreme

*Not a movie but there was so much mid shit this year you kinda have to put it up there

Feels like my life just begun

Fall like a thunderbolt

Weirdly hyped for Marty Supreme despite still thinking Uncut Gems is spiritually evil

Hear me out: Mr. Arkadin was the Blackhat of 1955

Damn I forgot I posted this lmao

Peckinpah > Kurosawa

La Notte and The Passenger are the Antonioni films which speak the most to my soul, but Red Desert is the one that gets closest to the ideal film in my mind

One thing we *do* share with Weimar is a society entering a profound transformation crisis, experienced by its inhabitants through new media technology. I think most of the liberal Weimar analogies are *really* just talking about this because media is how we engage in history now

If Woke 2 is inevitably going to emerge after Trump 2, then what happens after Woke 2?

this is basically my theory as well. a large constituency of the elites wants a like 15-25% shift rightward. the american right are fucking lunatics who want 300%.

Let’s get those numbers up. #blackphone #2

this james cameron interview with the coastguard is so fucking awesome

Pretty much every great Japanese filmmaker - sans Miyazaki and Kurosawa I suppose - are always like "hey, this country kind of sucks!" but one thing I love about Oshima is how upfront about how perverted Japan is and he's always like "hey this is kinda wack right"

Official bug rankings by Neil:

1. Bee
2. Scorpion
3. Ladybug
4. Spider
5. Stickbug
6. Caterpillar
7. Dragonfly
8. Worm
9. Ant
10 Moth

bug rankings as of 2025-01-24
1 ant
2 worm
3 caterpillar
4 scorpion
5 moth
6 stick bug
7 dragon fly
8 beetles
9 spider
10 bee

Alright I'm outta here! Death to Bazin!!

I just....I don't know if this place has the juice but maybe it's a sign my semi-retirement from social media is nearing

How the heck do you have 60,000 followers on here already lmao

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Sinners > OBAA. This is a safe space for me to say that

My religious beliefs are precision and transcendence

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 6, Episode 2

Light em upppp

The appalling smearing of Zohran Mamdani as 'anti-semitic' It's Islamophobic. It's racist. It's also completely untrue.

I got mad and I wrote about it.

My condolences to the ADL.

Did I ruin your plans?

Splish splash mothafucka I'm taking a bath muthafucka