Liquid Sky, 1982 - ★★★★
I'd like to say this movie is before its time, but it's not. The issues it raises were present in the 80s as well as in the 1800s. We just take more notice now.
Liquid Sky is not easy to watch. It's an explosive, colorful, emotional,l drug-influenced, NYC-punk, alien, in-your-face, weird sort of a thing, and it gives zero fucks about it. Which is exactly how it should be.
I'd stop here and say good job, but the movie went further and made me question my values, past and present. It grabbed me by the throat and forced me to look. I'm glad I did.
A bit of RSS magic here, a bit MB customization there, and poof! A new movie 🎥 review page on the blog. It even comes with its own RSS feed: taonaw.com/categorie…
Adult content: I watch and review some erotic movies. Please keep this in mind
Leviathan, 1989 - ★★
Your typical 90s suspense flick with all the clichés. I enjoyed the story, and the effects are nice. It makes you appreciate the stunts department before we had AI integrated into everything.
We have come a long way since the days of women being sexy meat sacks that always need rescuing. It's good to watch one of these movies to remind you why this was a problem. It made me cringe more than once.
Think Aliens underwater without Susan Weaver to kick ass.
Leviathan, 1989 - ★★
Your typical 90s suspense flick with all the clichés. I enjoyed the story, and the effects are nice. It makes you appreciate the stunts department before we had AI integrated into everything.
We have come a long way since the days of women being sexy meat sacks that always need rescuing. It's good to watch one of these movies to remind you why this was a problem. It made me cringe more than once.
Think Aliens underwater without Susan Weaver to kick ass.
The Beast, 1975 - ★★★½
Ok, let's get this out of the way first. Yes, there's horse dick in this movie. Lots and lots of it. So if you have a problem with horse dick, this is not the movie for you.
As a movie, it's OK. It gets a 7 out of 10. The story is not revolutionary, and the effects didn't exactly age well. Still, I found that it was well performed. It tells the familiar story (all men are sexual beasts) but it turns it around, with women beating men in their own game.
This is an erotic movie from the 70s which you won't find on any streaming services today. The question to ask yourself is not if you're OK with the sort of taboo the movie shows, but why you no longer have the option to wonder about this.
The Beast, 1975 - ★★★½
Ok, let's get this out of the way first. Yes, there's horse dick in this movie. Lots and lots of it. So if you have a problem with horse dick, this is not the movie for you.
As a movie, it's OK. It gets a 7 out of 10. The story is not revolutionary, and the effects didn't exactly age well. Still, I found that it was well performed. It tells the familiar story (all men are sexual beasts) but it turns it around, with women beating men in their own game.
This is an erotic movie from the 70s which you won't find on any streaming services today. The question to ask yourself is not if you're OK with the sort of taboo the movie shows, but why you no longer have the option to wonder about this.
I recorded another S3 video Monday, and I didn’t get around to post it until yesterday. The first one since I got back from Italy.
In this vid:
- Recapping some of the Florence experience
- Photography: what rekindled my desire to take photos and Glass
- GrapheneOS, a hardened Android OS on my phone
- Micro.Camp, books tips, more about photos, and movies (boy I’ll have a lot to talk about next time!)
- A few notes about the wiki
Now that Diode Zone (my PeerTube instance) doesn’t seem to have a storage limit, I aim to upload the videos there first, and put them on YouTube a week later.
As a privacy advocate (yes, this is a term that fits me at this point I think) I have a hard time replacing Google Maps. There isn’t another app I know that gives you quick results for searches in an area when you’re on the go, complete with instructions and sharing the trip in real-time.
After Micro.Camp 2023, quite a few folks got excited about Mars Edit. And for a good reason. It’s an excellent writing tool geared specifically toward blogs. For Micro.blog users, it offers a couple of features that don’t exist in the website UI. Miraz expanded upon these features and then some in a well-made presentation and introduced a couple of things I didn’t realize are possible with the app. And, as if that wasn’t enough, Daniel Jalkut, the creator of Mars Edit, offered an exclusive discount of 50% on the software.
Still, I was and remain on the fence, because I use Emacs to write my posts.
Without getting too technical about Emacs (there’s enough information in my old blog and the wiki), I have a couple of key features I created for Micro.blog. For example, I have a template for it with the code I need for certain plugins. Emacs also converts my writing to markdown on the fly with HTML code where needed. Emacs, with org-mode, is built into my routine, so creating a post for MB is integrated into my daily TODOs automatically.
With the full discount expired, I think I’m going to pass this time around for now.