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i'm done trying to get the spoiler tags to work properly lol, always a nightmare. hopefully they're fine for the first two at least.
The Top 5 List Thread
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CiG
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Oh look a bunch of stuff I can wishlist because I have no life.
Cassavetes is God.
Cassavetes is God.
CiG
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Time to see what has changed between 2017 and now. Also fucking hell those were autistic times.
Top 5 Sylvester Stallone films:
Top 5 Charles Bronson films:
Top 5 Jean-Claude Van Damme films:
Top 5 Jackie Chan films:
Top 5 Steven Seagal films:
Top 5 Kurt Russell films:
Top 5 Clint Eastwood films (lead actor):
Top 5 Wesley Snipes films:
Top 5 Woody Harrelson films:
Top 5 Dolph Lundgren films:
Top 5 Rutger Hauer films (lead actor):
Top 5 Jet Li films:
Top 5 Donnie Yen films:
Top 5 Johnny Depp films:
Top 5 Al Pacino films:
Top 5 Robert De Niro films:
Top 5 Quentin Tarantino directed films:
Top 5 slasher films:
Top 5 Christian Bale films:
Top 5 Richard Gere films:
Top 5 Kevin Costner films:
Top 5 Ridley Scott films:
Top 5 Arnold Schwarzenegger films:
- The Terminator
- Terminator 2
- Conan the Barbarian
- Predator
- Commando
Top 5 Sylvester Stallone films:
- First Blood
- Rambo
- Cobra
- Tango & Cash
- Rocky
Top 5 Charles Bronson films:
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Death Wish 3
- Mr. Majestyk
- The Mechanic
- Hard Times
Top 5 Jean-Claude Van Damme films:
- Universal Soldier: Regeneration
- Cyborg
- Hard Target
- Bloodsport
- Death Warrant
Top 5 Jackie Chan films:
- Police Story
- Rush Hour
- Rumble in the Bronx
- Police Story 2
- Crime Story
Top 5 Steven Seagal films:
- Above the Law
- Out for Justice
- The Glimmer Man
- Under Siege
- Hard to Kill
Top 5 Kurt Russell films:
- Escape From New York
- The Thing
- Tango & Cash
- Bone Tomahawk
- Soldier
Top 5 Clint Eastwood films (lead actor):
- Unforgiven
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Magnum Force
- Dirty Harry
- Pale Rider
Top 5 Wesley Snipes films:
- Blade
- Brooklyn's Finest
- U.S. Marshals
- White Men Can't Jump
- Passenger 57
Top 5 Woody Harrelson films:
- Natural Born Killers
- Rampart
- The Duel
- The Messenger
- White Men Can't Jump
Top 5 Dolph Lundgren films:
- The Punisher
- Showdown in Little Tokyo
- Dark Angel
- Universal Soldier
- The Expendables 2
Top 5 Rutger Hauer films (lead actor):
- Blade Runner
- The Salute of the Jugger
- Hobo With a Shotgun
- Nighthawks
- The Hitcher
Top 5 Jet Li films:
- Fist of Legend
- Black Mask
- Danny the Dog (aka Unleashed)
- Romeo Must Die
- Hero
Top 5 Donnie Yen films:
- In the Line of Duty 4
- SPL: Sha Po Lang
- Iron Monkey
- Ip Man
- 14 Blades
Top 5 Johnny Depp films:
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Dead Man
- Donnie Brasco
- Public Enemies
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Top 5 Al Pacino films:
- The Godfather: Part II
- The Godfather
- Scarface
- Heat
- The Panic in Needle Park
Top 5 Robert De Niro films:
- Taxi Driver
- The Godfather: Part II
- Casino
- The Deer Hunter
- GoodFellas
Top 5 Quentin Tarantino directed films:
- Pulp Fiction
- Jackie Brown
- Reservoir Dogs
- Kill Bill: Vol. 2
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Top 5 slasher films:
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- X
- Halloween
- Friday the 13th
- Maniac Cop
Top 5 Christian Bale films:
- Harsh Times
- American Psycho
- Hostiles
- The Dark Knight
- Equilibrium
Top 5 Richard Gere films:
- Days of Heaven
- Brooklyn's Finest
- American Gigolo
- The Cotton Club
- Time Out of Mind
Top 5 Kevin Costner films:
- Open Range
- The Untouchables
- Waterworld
- Dances With Wolves
- Wyatt Earp
Top 5 Ridley Scott films:
- Alien
- Blade Runner
- Gladiator
- The Last Duel
- Kingdom of Heaven
CiG
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- Road to Perdition
- Saving Private Ryan
- The 'Burbs
- Forrest Gump
- The Money Pit
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Top 5 albums of 2022.......so far ( no particular order)
Miscreance - Convergence
Big time Atheist and Death vibes/worship. Fucking awesome, love it!
Razor - Cycle of Contempt
See this is getting trashed in reviews, but i got this in like 2 days and am still spinning the shit out of it......love it! Sounds like early 90's Razor (Shotgun Justice and Open Hostility), not sure what these loser reviewers were expecting? Razor have never experimented with their sound.
Molder - Engrossed in Decay
Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
Suppression - The Sorrow of Soul Through Flesh
EDIT: Suppression bumped Cosmic Putrefaction for a spot.
Miscreance - Convergence
Big time Atheist and Death vibes/worship. Fucking awesome, love it!
Razor - Cycle of Contempt
See this is getting trashed in reviews, but i got this in like 2 days and am still spinning the shit out of it......love it! Sounds like early 90's Razor (Shotgun Justice and Open Hostility), not sure what these loser reviewers were expecting? Razor have never experimented with their sound.
Molder - Engrossed in Decay
Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
Suppression - The Sorrow of Soul Through Flesh
EDIT: Suppression bumped Cosmic Putrefaction for a spot.
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CiG
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Top 5 favourites from September:
- Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
- L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation - W.A.R. in the Digital Realm
- Miscreance - Convergence
- Tottal Tømming - Om hundre år er allting brennt!!!
- Spiritus Mortis - The Great Seal
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'80s time! a couple of years tonight and more soon.
1980
1. Times Square (dir. Allan Moyle)
my favourite rebellious young punks movie, despite the studio's semi-successful attempt to make it more accessible. fleeting bursts of self-expression for the abandoned, the disenfranchised and the doomed. Robin Johnson was the greatest.
2. Out of the Blue (dir. Dennis Hopper)
my second favourite rebellious young punk movie. one of the most apocalyptic of all films; our children will set the world on fire to save it from us. Linda Manz was the greatest.
3. Airplane! (dir. ZAZ)
really starts to make sense once you've seen the inside of a Turkish prison. so many of the gags here have better punchlines than the one you might expect, you can really tell they applied the ol' chess adage: if you've found a good move, look for a better one.
4. The Fog (dir. John Carpenter)
probably the Carpenter to age most gracefully relative to first impressions. it's the story of a seaside town--its people, its ghosts, its guilt--and rarely has a place felt so much like the star of the film; i visit it often and so should you.
5. The Last Witness (dir. Doo Yong-Lee)
thought about going for Friedkin's Cruising here but decided to highlight the lesser known animal. proto-Memories of Murder, lacking the tonal frictions which complicate that film, but engaged more directly and confrontationally with Korean history.
1981
1. Blow Out (dir. Brian De Palma)
The Conversation meets Blow-Up; De Palma's most politically engaged, his most sincere and resonant. it's the film where his love of artifice is folded most seamlessly back into the narrative, understanding that film is the ultimate tool for encapsulating the history of American politics and culture as a series of painful, slimy truths hidden within a comforting and enthralling web of fakery, whereas lesser filmmakers will choose one or the other and lose a crucial part of the picture.
2. Time for Revenge (dir. Adolfo Aristarain)
the highest rated crime film of the '80s on Letterboxd (mostly by native argentines); a taut, tense unionist revenge movie that somehow got made and released during a dictatorship. again, it reminds a little of The Conversation but by way of Schrader's Blue Collar. absolutely ferocious, ballsy piece of filmmaking, a snarled fuck you to the powers that be.
3. Cutter's Way (dir. Ivan Passer)
may be my favourite disenfranchised world-weary alcoholic deadbeat neo-noir. the Coens obviously had it in mind when casting Bridges in the Big Lebowski, although this one's too burdened by rage, terror and loss to become any kind of comedy, and John Heard is obviously the beating heart. one of those performances that goes so hard and deep it moves beyond all notions of good or bad.
4. Possession (dir. Andrej Zulawski)
if any film collapses the divide between genius and madness it's this deranged treasure, equally awe-inspiring whether taken as a serious philosophical work or a mentally ill curio that makes Vampire's Kiss look like When Harry Met Sally. one of the few truly one-of-a-kind films ever to exist.
5. Modern Romance (dir. Albert Brooks)
an absolutely savage puncturing of romcom tropes that's partially responsible for everything from Michael Bluth to Louis C.K., this at times it feels like the closest Hollywood has got to Hong Sang-Soo, while also having maybe the second best ludes sequence ever. it's genius and i'd take it over any Woody i've ever seen.
1980
1. Times Square (dir. Allan Moyle)
my favourite rebellious young punks movie, despite the studio's semi-successful attempt to make it more accessible. fleeting bursts of self-expression for the abandoned, the disenfranchised and the doomed. Robin Johnson was the greatest.
2. Out of the Blue (dir. Dennis Hopper)
my second favourite rebellious young punk movie. one of the most apocalyptic of all films; our children will set the world on fire to save it from us. Linda Manz was the greatest.
3. Airplane! (dir. ZAZ)
really starts to make sense once you've seen the inside of a Turkish prison. so many of the gags here have better punchlines than the one you might expect, you can really tell they applied the ol' chess adage: if you've found a good move, look for a better one.
4. The Fog (dir. John Carpenter)
probably the Carpenter to age most gracefully relative to first impressions. it's the story of a seaside town--its people, its ghosts, its guilt--and rarely has a place felt so much like the star of the film; i visit it often and so should you.
5. The Last Witness (dir. Doo Yong-Lee)
thought about going for Friedkin's Cruising here but decided to highlight the lesser known animal. proto-Memories of Murder, lacking the tonal frictions which complicate that film, but engaged more directly and confrontationally with Korean history.
1981
1. Blow Out (dir. Brian De Palma)
The Conversation meets Blow-Up; De Palma's most politically engaged, his most sincere and resonant. it's the film where his love of artifice is folded most seamlessly back into the narrative, understanding that film is the ultimate tool for encapsulating the history of American politics and culture as a series of painful, slimy truths hidden within a comforting and enthralling web of fakery, whereas lesser filmmakers will choose one or the other and lose a crucial part of the picture.
2. Time for Revenge (dir. Adolfo Aristarain)
the highest rated crime film of the '80s on Letterboxd (mostly by native argentines); a taut, tense unionist revenge movie that somehow got made and released during a dictatorship. again, it reminds a little of The Conversation but by way of Schrader's Blue Collar. absolutely ferocious, ballsy piece of filmmaking, a snarled fuck you to the powers that be.
3. Cutter's Way (dir. Ivan Passer)
may be my favourite disenfranchised world-weary alcoholic deadbeat neo-noir. the Coens obviously had it in mind when casting Bridges in the Big Lebowski, although this one's too burdened by rage, terror and loss to become any kind of comedy, and John Heard is obviously the beating heart. one of those performances that goes so hard and deep it moves beyond all notions of good or bad.
4. Possession (dir. Andrej Zulawski)
if any film collapses the divide between genius and madness it's this deranged treasure, equally awe-inspiring whether taken as a serious philosophical work or a mentally ill curio that makes Vampire's Kiss look like When Harry Met Sally. one of the few truly one-of-a-kind films ever to exist.
5. Modern Romance (dir. Albert Brooks)
an absolutely savage puncturing of romcom tropes that's partially responsible for everything from Michael Bluth to Louis C.K., this at times it feels like the closest Hollywood has got to Hong Sang-Soo, while also having maybe the second best ludes sequence ever. it's genius and i'd take it over any Woody i've ever seen.
CiG
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Top 5 favourites from October:
Bit of a skint month. Mostly the top 3 here are highlights to me. Absürd is my mate's new noisy gothy anarcho post-punk project, fucking rules and sounds like it could've been released in the late 70's or early 80's easy.
Also apparently the Persekutor EP title track is gonna feature in Christmas Bloody Christmas.
- Darkthrone - Astral Fortress
- Absürd - Vanvett Och Dystopi
- Atrocious Devastation - Nuclear Sword of Damocles
- Imprecation - In nomine Diaboli
- Persekutor - Brain Freeze
Bit of a skint month. Mostly the top 3 here are highlights to me. Absürd is my mate's new noisy gothy anarcho post-punk project, fucking rules and sounds like it could've been released in the late 70's or early 80's easy.
Also apparently the Persekutor EP title track is gonna feature in Christmas Bloody Christmas.
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1982
1. The King of Comedy (dir. Martin Scorsese)
a candidate for the most skilfully pitched film in all of Hollywood, straddling the line between squirming discomfort, underdog sympathy and sick comedy until it's impossible to know how to feel in any given moment. De Niro's ability to harness this complex tone is incredible to me and i find his performance every bit as unsettling as Travis Bickle and perhaps even more skilful (splitting hairs, both amazing). its portrait of the American Dream is so committed and brutally cynical and above all prescient, understanding exactly where this obsession with celebrity was heading. for its faults, Joker was smart to remake this as an overt commentary on class.
2. The Thing (dir. John Carpenter)
one of my most watched movies ever, had it on VHS for as long as i can remember. the first time i ever remember really paying attention to the score of a movie, and one of the first times i remember considering the themes. it continues to play out in every political arena; which guy in the room is the commie? which voted trump? which will sexually harass you as soon as you're alone together? which one has AIDS? which didn't get the COVID jab? how should we go about identifying them? should we preemptively police them before they harm us? maybe do a blood test? despite being blatantly mechanical at times the monster is still a disgusting delight, but forget the monster; it's the tensest film about the unknowability of other people. and that's just one layer among many.
3. Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott)
everything about this film's aesthetic and worldbuilding is geared to express a conflict between humanity and, well, call it what you like: capital, totalitarianism, technological mediation, all of the many many dehumanising things modernity has in store for us. and so, by god, there's so much pathos in how it looks and sounds. for those who find it slow, detached, batty's way ahead of you and his whole arc is him trying and failing to restart this cold dead heart of a city, this tomb of a film. you want to know if deckard is a replicant? the answer is if that's what you leave the film contemplating, you're one yourself. shout out to my favourite line delivery of all time, courtesy of señor Edward James Olmos.
4. Fast-Walking (dir. James B. Harris)
God, I love it here, in this joint, you know that, Squeeze? I just fucking love it, there's no place like it in the whole damn world. There's nothing you can't do in here, if you got the balls. It's as simple as that, you just believe in yourself. Follow your star. It'll lead you right to opportunity, and here it has again. the ultimate James Woods vehicle. he's so fucking fantastically gross and trashy here lol, and Tim McIntyre maybe outdoes him as the villain. i think some people here have seen Harris' Cop, this shaggy prison break movie is arguably even better.
5. Moonlighting (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
Jeremy Irons is a Polish contractor running a housing rebuild project in the UK for some government official, ends up getting stuck there with his increasingly resentful men (none of whom speak english) due to troubles back home, trying to keep the peace and stealing shit to survive. it's a seriously incisive microcosm of capitalism with this alienated tone i've never really encountered in a movie before; actually, the closest parallel i can throw out is There Will Be Blood of all things, except if that film was punctuated by a bunch of other jarring shit such as bumbling slapstick-adjacent comedy. much like Deep End it's a unique experience.
1983
1. Sweet Bunch (dir. Nikos Nikolaidis)
Nikolaidis' masterpiece, and my favourite '...new wave' movie to date from any nation. one of the most emotionally textured films, with a soul that's by turns breathlessly young and achingly old. it feels like the best of Godard, Rivette, Peckinpah and Cassavetes all at the same time. he's just the coolest fucking director, everything from the posters to the website is so fucking awesome. i can't believe he can make a ruminative Tarkovsky-adjacent post-apocalyptic meta-sci fi like Morning Patrol, a Lanthimos level deadpan Laura riff full of piss sex like Singapore Sling, and this goddamn gem of a film. hero.
2. Smorgasbord (dir. Jerry Lewis)
categorically not for people who hear terms like "anti-comedy" and reach for the off switch, which may be why americans hated lewis and the french rescued his reputation. in any case, this is his most extreme commitment to a bit: he's unable to live, and unable to die. no real explanations are given for this; everything he touches turns to shit A Serious Man-style, including his numerous suicide attempts, and that's the movie. jokes are stretched beyond breaking point, some of them seem intentionally unfunny, there's very little in the way of plot progression, it's borderline avant-garde--obviously, as a Gremlins 2: The New Batch fanboy i eat that shit up. and yet it's very personal too, touching on a lot of autobiographical stuff (he attempted suicide himself, he had heart surgery himself, etc). it's exhausting and bewildering and hilarious and hilariously unhilarious. it's metaphysical, and pure in its understanding of comedy as merely the flipside of despair.
3. P. P. Rider (dir. Shinji Somai)
there were so many unhinged movies focused around children coming out of Japan in this era, not least from Somai who's best known for the divorce drama from a child's perspective Moving. this one's more like a Hark Tsui movie though (better, i would argue), amping the anarchy and absurdity up and up until it's teetering somewhere between euphoria and mental illness as these kids navigate a shitty world of uncaring deadbeat adults and yakuza. the climax is rhapsodic madness.
4. Local Hero (dir. Bill Forsyth)
there's nobody quite like Forsyth. there are so many red flags with this premise--smug oil rep goes to remote scottish village to buy up the land and ends up bonding with the locals--and he effortlessly sidesteps them and just allows the story to float along on waves of compassion, wonder and gentle humour. you don't realise how rare it is to find a sincerely humble, open and empathetic filmmaker until you watch a film like this, which outright ignores all of the many tempting opportunities to patronise, indict or martyr. it's sort of 'minor' by design but i can't hold that against it. also, yes, that is a young Peter Capaldi, although he won't be shoving anyone's ipod up their cock in this one.
5. Videodrome (dir. David Cronenberg)
you'll forgive me if i don't stay around to write about this. i just can't cope with the freaky stuff.
1. The King of Comedy (dir. Martin Scorsese)
a candidate for the most skilfully pitched film in all of Hollywood, straddling the line between squirming discomfort, underdog sympathy and sick comedy until it's impossible to know how to feel in any given moment. De Niro's ability to harness this complex tone is incredible to me and i find his performance every bit as unsettling as Travis Bickle and perhaps even more skilful (splitting hairs, both amazing). its portrait of the American Dream is so committed and brutally cynical and above all prescient, understanding exactly where this obsession with celebrity was heading. for its faults, Joker was smart to remake this as an overt commentary on class.
2. The Thing (dir. John Carpenter)
one of my most watched movies ever, had it on VHS for as long as i can remember. the first time i ever remember really paying attention to the score of a movie, and one of the first times i remember considering the themes. it continues to play out in every political arena; which guy in the room is the commie? which voted trump? which will sexually harass you as soon as you're alone together? which one has AIDS? which didn't get the COVID jab? how should we go about identifying them? should we preemptively police them before they harm us? maybe do a blood test? despite being blatantly mechanical at times the monster is still a disgusting delight, but forget the monster; it's the tensest film about the unknowability of other people. and that's just one layer among many.
3. Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott)
everything about this film's aesthetic and worldbuilding is geared to express a conflict between humanity and, well, call it what you like: capital, totalitarianism, technological mediation, all of the many many dehumanising things modernity has in store for us. and so, by god, there's so much pathos in how it looks and sounds. for those who find it slow, detached, batty's way ahead of you and his whole arc is him trying and failing to restart this cold dead heart of a city, this tomb of a film. you want to know if deckard is a replicant? the answer is if that's what you leave the film contemplating, you're one yourself. shout out to my favourite line delivery of all time, courtesy of señor Edward James Olmos.
4. Fast-Walking (dir. James B. Harris)
God, I love it here, in this joint, you know that, Squeeze? I just fucking love it, there's no place like it in the whole damn world. There's nothing you can't do in here, if you got the balls. It's as simple as that, you just believe in yourself. Follow your star. It'll lead you right to opportunity, and here it has again. the ultimate James Woods vehicle. he's so fucking fantastically gross and trashy here lol, and Tim McIntyre maybe outdoes him as the villain. i think some people here have seen Harris' Cop, this shaggy prison break movie is arguably even better.
5. Moonlighting (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
Jeremy Irons is a Polish contractor running a housing rebuild project in the UK for some government official, ends up getting stuck there with his increasingly resentful men (none of whom speak english) due to troubles back home, trying to keep the peace and stealing shit to survive. it's a seriously incisive microcosm of capitalism with this alienated tone i've never really encountered in a movie before; actually, the closest parallel i can throw out is There Will Be Blood of all things, except if that film was punctuated by a bunch of other jarring shit such as bumbling slapstick-adjacent comedy. much like Deep End it's a unique experience.
1983
1. Sweet Bunch (dir. Nikos Nikolaidis)
Nikolaidis' masterpiece, and my favourite '...new wave' movie to date from any nation. one of the most emotionally textured films, with a soul that's by turns breathlessly young and achingly old. it feels like the best of Godard, Rivette, Peckinpah and Cassavetes all at the same time. he's just the coolest fucking director, everything from the posters to the website is so fucking awesome. i can't believe he can make a ruminative Tarkovsky-adjacent post-apocalyptic meta-sci fi like Morning Patrol, a Lanthimos level deadpan Laura riff full of piss sex like Singapore Sling, and this goddamn gem of a film. hero.
2. Smorgasbord (dir. Jerry Lewis)
categorically not for people who hear terms like "anti-comedy" and reach for the off switch, which may be why americans hated lewis and the french rescued his reputation. in any case, this is his most extreme commitment to a bit: he's unable to live, and unable to die. no real explanations are given for this; everything he touches turns to shit A Serious Man-style, including his numerous suicide attempts, and that's the movie. jokes are stretched beyond breaking point, some of them seem intentionally unfunny, there's very little in the way of plot progression, it's borderline avant-garde--obviously, as a Gremlins 2: The New Batch fanboy i eat that shit up. and yet it's very personal too, touching on a lot of autobiographical stuff (he attempted suicide himself, he had heart surgery himself, etc). it's exhausting and bewildering and hilarious and hilariously unhilarious. it's metaphysical, and pure in its understanding of comedy as merely the flipside of despair.
3. P. P. Rider (dir. Shinji Somai)
there were so many unhinged movies focused around children coming out of Japan in this era, not least from Somai who's best known for the divorce drama from a child's perspective Moving. this one's more like a Hark Tsui movie though (better, i would argue), amping the anarchy and absurdity up and up until it's teetering somewhere between euphoria and mental illness as these kids navigate a shitty world of uncaring deadbeat adults and yakuza. the climax is rhapsodic madness.
4. Local Hero (dir. Bill Forsyth)
there's nobody quite like Forsyth. there are so many red flags with this premise--smug oil rep goes to remote scottish village to buy up the land and ends up bonding with the locals--and he effortlessly sidesteps them and just allows the story to float along on waves of compassion, wonder and gentle humour. you don't realise how rare it is to find a sincerely humble, open and empathetic filmmaker until you watch a film like this, which outright ignores all of the many tempting opportunities to patronise, indict or martyr. it's sort of 'minor' by design but i can't hold that against it. also, yes, that is a young Peter Capaldi, although he won't be shoving anyone's ipod up their cock in this one.
5. Videodrome (dir. David Cronenberg)
you'll forgive me if i don't stay around to write about this. i just can't cope with the freaky stuff.
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Top 5 favourites from November:
- Wadge - Grindcore Penitentiary
- Effluence - Liquefied
- Impugner - Advent of the Wretched
- 16 - Into Dust
- Vomit Angel - Bucolic Nightmare
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top 10 favourite footballers (vids included):
maradona - purely in terms of contributing to winning over a sustained period of time, i think there are better players than maradona, messi being one of them. peak for peak though, he'll always be the GOAT to me. most players pre-'00s wouldn't even be a top 50 player nowadays with all the athletic and tactical evolutions, but i think maradona would still potentially be the best player in the world nowadays even without modern training and diet etc. he was that special.
eric cantona - i'm lucky to have seen cantona play live many times when i was young, and i still consider him the greatest utd player of my lifetime. i roll my eyes most times footballers are called geniuses, but he was a genius who was also a warrior and what he did to single-handedly drag the club to success during his few years at the club will never happen again. he was also a madman of course, infamously kung fu kicking a dickhead fan during a game followed by the most iconic of press conferences, which just makes him more of a legend. he is not a man. he is cantona.
zinedine zidane - speaking of french genius madmen, zidane is one of my sporting ideals and was so great there's a feature-length film just devoted to watching him run around the pitch doing his thing. he was just as unhinged as cantona at times, with this straight up assault being his final act on a football field (in a world cup final no less), but he was even more brilliant.
thierry henry - sticking with the french theme, i've never been more frightened of an opposition player, he'd fucking destroy us every damn game. he is uncontroversially the best player ever to play in the premier league, a ridiculous mixture of athleticism, technique, inspiration and charisma.
ronaldinho - the most joyous, entertaining footballer who ever lived.
dimitar berbatov - the most pretentious player ever. fucking loved him. determined to do the most lazily beautiful thing possible at every moment, didn't give a shit. "you are not going to see me puffing around the pitch. we have a saying in bulgaria: great quality requires minimal effort."
nemanja vidic - my favourite defender ever. nightmare to play against, knew every trick in the book and would die for the team. got away with murder every game. broke his nose at least once per season. scored so many crucial headers for us too. absolute hero.
dennis bergkamp - the most intelligent footballer i've seen in the flesh. bit of an enigma, didn't go to european road games because he was scared of flying lol, if he absolutely had to go then he'd take a ferry. always seemed like such an arrogant prick but he backed it up with so many moments of insane brilliance.
andrea pirlo - the maestro. dude may as well have played in slippers smoking a pipe for how easily it came to him. just strolling around pinging perfect passes. crushed multiple england teams seemingly effortlessly, most people here were sick of the sight of him but i couldn't get enough. helps that he looks like a die hard villain.
juan roman riquelme - another guy who just seemed to run rings around everybody despite playing at half pace. nothing i love more than players doing magical things while looking like they just woke up from a long nap.
maradona - purely in terms of contributing to winning over a sustained period of time, i think there are better players than maradona, messi being one of them. peak for peak though, he'll always be the GOAT to me. most players pre-'00s wouldn't even be a top 50 player nowadays with all the athletic and tactical evolutions, but i think maradona would still potentially be the best player in the world nowadays even without modern training and diet etc. he was that special.
eric cantona - i'm lucky to have seen cantona play live many times when i was young, and i still consider him the greatest utd player of my lifetime. i roll my eyes most times footballers are called geniuses, but he was a genius who was also a warrior and what he did to single-handedly drag the club to success during his few years at the club will never happen again. he was also a madman of course, infamously kung fu kicking a dickhead fan during a game followed by the most iconic of press conferences, which just makes him more of a legend. he is not a man. he is cantona.
zinedine zidane - speaking of french genius madmen, zidane is one of my sporting ideals and was so great there's a feature-length film just devoted to watching him run around the pitch doing his thing. he was just as unhinged as cantona at times, with this straight up assault being his final act on a football field (in a world cup final no less), but he was even more brilliant.
thierry henry - sticking with the french theme, i've never been more frightened of an opposition player, he'd fucking destroy us every damn game. he is uncontroversially the best player ever to play in the premier league, a ridiculous mixture of athleticism, technique, inspiration and charisma.
ronaldinho - the most joyous, entertaining footballer who ever lived.
dimitar berbatov - the most pretentious player ever. fucking loved him. determined to do the most lazily beautiful thing possible at every moment, didn't give a shit. "you are not going to see me puffing around the pitch. we have a saying in bulgaria: great quality requires minimal effort."
nemanja vidic - my favourite defender ever. nightmare to play against, knew every trick in the book and would die for the team. got away with murder every game. broke his nose at least once per season. scored so many crucial headers for us too. absolute hero.
dennis bergkamp - the most intelligent footballer i've seen in the flesh. bit of an enigma, didn't go to european road games because he was scared of flying lol, if he absolutely had to go then he'd take a ferry. always seemed like such an arrogant prick but he backed it up with so many moments of insane brilliance.
andrea pirlo - the maestro. dude may as well have played in slippers smoking a pipe for how easily it came to him. just strolling around pinging perfect passes. crushed multiple england teams seemingly effortlessly, most people here were sick of the sight of him but i couldn't get enough. helps that he looks like a die hard villain.
juan roman riquelme - another guy who just seemed to run rings around everybody despite playing at half pace. nothing i love more than players doing magical things while looking like they just woke up from a long nap.
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Artists I listened to the most in 2022 per Last.fm. I ran through the majority of the discography of a bunch of bands and NOFX is a bit out of place given their piles of short songs.
1. Björk
2. Battle Beast
3. NOFX
4. Ripship
5. Pentagram
1. Björk
2. Battle Beast
3. NOFX
4. Ripship
5. Pentagram
Never thought diagraphephobia would be the one on the list to appear on Wiktionary first, but someone used it as a song title in a video game mod and now the word's all over the place. My one useful contribution to humanity.Top 5 words I use that aren't on Wiktionary:
overponder
gilguy
querafancible
maltuned
diagraphephobia
I worked out that last one with the help of a Greek friend and it's been funny seeing it develop a life of its own online, as usually nothing I ever come up with takes off at all. Someone even used it in a RapPad battle.
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Top 5 tracks from Devo's Duty Now for the Future:
1. Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA (one of the band's best in general)
2. Swelling Itching Brain
3. Clockout
4. Strange Pursuit
5. Secret Agent Man
