Rick Powell
@rickpowellcdmx
Cook and English teacher. Risky writer. Lover of beer, dudes, and movies.
Rick Powell
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“This Rimbaldian ode to love and the absolute that is Patagonia moved me like very few films about youth culture ever have.”
Cédric Succivalli • Locarno 2023 review: Patagonia (Simone Bozzelli)
Hamish McKenzie: On social media, posers are often given the most status points, and so we’re left with a misleading idea of authority; it seems the people who are loudest in their claims to be experts — the ones we hear from most on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube — are the ones to be most wary of. When self-proclaimed experts are ultimately reveal... See more
Youyang Gu • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
How can a work rediscover its solidity, its fruitfulness, its fragility, its own density or possible opacity, in short, its problematic virtues?
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Hate is the back of the mirror, without which you would just have a piece of glass. “It can be positive,” Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys wrote in a terrific 1992 polemic on the virtues of hate. “It throws into relief all the things you know you like. It tells you, by elimination, what you’re about… To hate a lot of things is tantamount to really
... See moreDorian Lynskey • The dying art of the hatchet job - UnHerd
Re: That idio on Reddit who said that he would gladly leave all the two and one-star movies to us, if he could only he see the good ones. How that would work, I don’t know. I had commented that seeing bad movies helps hone your judgment.
