“At the end, our narrator is happy to wake and find himself back in his real, dismal life, his “never-ending hate for this completely fucked-up society” intact. “Thank God I never went to school,” he concludes. “Thank God I didn’t end up just like you.” :: https://www.gq.com/story/viagra-boys-swedish-punk-rock-profile

I got to tell you I’m feeling just the right
Minimal to maximal amount of shattered by life
My brain reads like an open book
I shack up from the walking plank
I travel down the mighty rocky road
A heavy weight upon my broken bones

:: https://soundcloud.com/theavalanches/gold-sky-feat-kurt-vile

“The body is, ultimately, the grounding element of the films on this list and action cinema in general. An effective action scene is intensely physical, and it is a physicality complexly mediated by vision: action seen on a screen, bodies viewed from a level of physical remove and yet, through different filmmaking choices, to which our own bodies are brought viscerally near.” :: https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-action-scene-best-of-2020

“Ultimately, both these more purposeful constructed sequences and all of the people-watching are of a single piece, part of a panorama of the 21st-century American experience as surviving in a state of near-total discombobulation, where paranoia and powerlessness rules the day.” :: https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/urban-warriors-and-anarcho-flaneurs-john-wilson-and-luc-moullet