O Brother Where Art Thou

love that film, it goes hard.

complex, understated, bombastic, a very complete human experience all wrapped into something small

with

the iconic:

plus some of my other favs:

it’s a banger 🙂

it’s really likely ill repost things in this series over time and mess up the count. just wonder how long it’ll take lol.

Small recommendation: Zotero. Great app for managing research. Add it to your browser, download the desktop app, and it stores articles and other research sources quickly and conveniently. Also stores metadata in an accessible fashion that makes citations easier. I just use folders to divide things into projects. It’s nice to just look at old folders and be reminded of all the stuff I found back then too.

these two videos have kept a place in my heart for a long, long time. they were formative, honestly.

one of the most most most most important documentaries ive ever seen fr

and an event that just comforts me and convinces me of the power of language

hadnt listened to this song in 5 bajilllion years

The Nothingness of Personality: Young Borges on the Self

and the self aint real and identity is a super limited framework :/

Fires of Faith: A documentary series about the history of the English Bible. Not the Bible, mind you, but specifically the massive controversy and sacrifice and loss of life that were tied up in the creation of an English translation of the Bible, an act of translation that often carried the penalty of death for heresy. I loved this series when I was younger and it was my first introduction to excellent documentarian Lucy Worsley. I bought the DVD set seeing that physical copies may be disappearing, but fortunately it’s available for free digitally.

https://www.byutv.org/player/e0d8c9f3-b3b8-49f7-b139-2ff0c2a52a83/fires-of-faith-yearning-for-the-word

this screencap from Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken

it’s part of a brilliant sequence about the nature of human conflict in the final episode and how conflict’s not remediable by good faith, because there are genuine issues that need resolving for which the solution is not at all clear. no se muere la controversia.

a song by astrophysics ~ thank you miku

https://elfaro.net/en/202205/el_salvador/26177/Collapsed-Government-Talks-with-MS-13-Sparked-Record-Homicides-in-El-Salvador-Audios-Reveal.htm

proof of corruption in el gobierno bukelista