They just didn’t see who JFK was (being the people in power around him), because of his relative youth. It made them not take him seriously, and think they had greater scope of authority over him. They didn’t understand that if you kill that man, you kill the nation and its dream, slowly but surely. Or they simply didn’t care about that.

I've been going old school in my technology usage. BBEdit, Markdown-based (plain text) note-taking and writing systems, local scripts (shell, AppleScript, NodeJS) for automation and productivity, RSS feeds for reading, hand-griding coffee beans (the underpinning human technology), and heating my home with fire. Wonderful ☕️️🔥 (this text was brought to you by a script, direct from my Mac-assed text editor)

Rave reviews coming in for A Complete Unknown and Timothee Chalamet as Dylan. Sounds like he's pulled off a special performance. Good things being said on Ed Norton as Pete Seeger, too. Double psyched.

Brian Cox pulls no punches. Part of his power on screen is a sense of uncompromised authenticity and straight-ahead energy. I have to laugh at Ed Norton as “a nice lad but a bit of pain in the arse.” Unsure if that means he likes him or not (I love him; one of my favourite actors, alongside Cox). I disagree on Tarantino, but respect how he speaks his mind.

Hot take: The Shining is still lacking a good analysis. Most of the theories from say, Room 237 (which was picking up existing theories before then, and the film did encode some scepticism about the theories in there) are hot bullshit. Then there's some good analysis mixed into that same documentary, and from elsewhere. It does have some strong, well-coded subtext. And that subtext does make the movie more terrifying.