again: in my rambling series of talking about movies, I finally got to Fargo
06.03.2026 21:59
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again: in my rambling series of talking about movies, I finally got to Fargo
Shifted since we got here but far side of lake still spooky
don't have any need for the gallaghers except for this song
youtu.be/TDe1DqxwJoc?...
heck yeah
the English language can barely convey how much Hank Williams Jr. sucks, but "Losin' You" is top-shelf 70s country
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_f...
along the same lines, and from the same era: I have no time for Radiohead unless they're playing "Electioneering," in which case I have 3:50 for them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dtg...
let's fight the friday afternoon blues by thinking of songs we like by groups we hate
I never liked Smashing Pumpkins and Corgan's a turd but I can't deny that 1979 rips
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aeE...
alternately, that only matters to me and I'm universalizing it. but i don't think so
so actually, I think if a person saw the Ruffians there's a good chance that they'd think "wow that was a pretty good band!" and they'd think that largely because we pay a lot of attention to dynamics, without realizing that this is what they were responding to
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
this time it has a strong Minnesota accent and pays surprising attention to dynamics
a totally legit email asking me to be head of digital at meta
sure
at this point I think the appreciation I can still muster for the whole record is for Gilmour's playing in a bunch of spots
MONEY PLANE (2020) predicted polymarkets and kalshi
Actually, the story of how I first saw Fargo is a pretty good one. I was still in undergrad, and at the time I was dating a girl from Brainerd. I’d gone back to her parents’ place in Brainerd with her for the weekend, and she wanted us to hang out with her high school friends, so we all went to see this hot new movie that everyone was talking about that was—can you believe it—kind of about Brainerd. So we went to see it, and, well, everyone was flummoxed; nobody hated it, but nobody really knew what to make of it.* But: the film, famously, starts out with the statement “This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.” Unfamiliar with the Coens’ sensibility (although I shouldn’t have been), I asked the group of befuddled Brainerdians if that was true, and they all muttered and nodded and said yeah, they were pretty sure they remembered it, back in the 80s, sure was weird when it happened. For whatever reason, I think about this a lot. *One joke that absolutely did land: there is no laughter more pure than a theater full of central Minnesotans reacting to Steve Buscemi burying a briefcase of money in a snowbank next to a highway and looking around for landmarks.
ok, big one for A Life in Film: let's go to Fargo (and Brainerd, and a bunch of locations scattered around the Twin Cities)
keithpille.com/a-life-in-fi...
oh that's perfect
there's a Rottweiler rescue in the twin cities called A Rotta Love and I bet they're turning up in search results that they don't want to be in
the fucking curse of the 21st century american
a thing I'm mortally tired of: watching the markets that set the boundary conditions of my life (and over which I have no power whatsoever) crater because people who, if asked, I could have told you were dangerous morons did something stupid
he ain't the worst that i've seen
Part of me would absolutely love to see Trump's "Business Man Mister Deals" persona go the same way as Hoover's "Great Engineer"
“Invade Iran and a great empire will fall!”
“Cool, thanks, oraclio!”
OMG HE'S BACK IN STOCK
I'd buy it that it's the Gundersons and that Wikipedia has the name wrong; there are some shots at the Lundegaard place where you can see a marshy exterior and I did drive myself a little nuts trying to find a spot on Pillsbury where that'd be possible
2215 Pillsbury if this post is to be believed!
Wikipedia tells me that "scenes in the Lundegaards' kitchen were shot in a private home on Pillsbury Avenue in Minneapolis," but crucially neglects to say where on Pillsbury. Since I live on the next street over and am as we speak looking at houses on Pillsbury, this is a grave omission
That tracks; the whole thing now just reads to me as rehearsed and choreographed past the point of humanity
people laugh at the design, but the German decision to mount a lighthouse on the aft deck is really going to pay off for them some day, presumably when it's foggy
Please do!
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