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Nitehawk Cinema

If you’re from brooklyn or new york city or just moved here, i know, this is cliche. But i! Don’t! Care! The truffle popcorn is addicting, even if I'm farting for the rest of the movie, it’s worth it. Plus they have cute little trailers to gab about with your date or friend, but i also go alone because nobody tried to have small talk with you at the movies and you can just disassociate peacefully in blissful high-power air conditioning on a hot nyc summer day. They have guest curators on a monthly basis and do fun screenings of old flicks. Highly recommend it. Nitehawk > Alamo.

@tommy-dorfman

Aug 7, 2023

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Anthology/Moma/Momi/lincon/SPECTACLE/roxy

let me break it down… Anthology 10 dollars a lot of lesser known avant garde films mixed in with art/foreign films. most things are also projected on film. really good place if your looking for something different. Moma is like 10 dollars too but if you’re a student you can get a free entry ticket which allows for a free movie ticket you just have to ask the desk. Moma has alot of stuff on film also and is always putting up classics And retrospectives on filmmakers Momi is also 10 and has a ton of cool 35mm more mainstream films always playing such as kubrick or Micheal mann.museum’s section is also cute especially if you like the muppets. Lincon center is a good place to go see indies/foreign movies that have come out recently also around 10 dollars also do some retrospectives remasters and 35mm screenings Spectacle is a community run Brooklyn theater that is one room and plays obscure cinema very fun place to go out to with friends and see something different. Roxy has some good 35mm screenings good date place to take someone.very comfy inside this fancy hotel downside is little more expensive but overall one of the better theater experiences in New York. Warning hipster central however 😭

@dogstarman

Feb 13, 2024

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The room

Going to the movies rocks. this was honestly such a hard question. This isn’t exactly the ~best~ movie but it is a great movie to see in a theater From like 19-20 going to the Landmark in Westwood to see the Room with my friends rocked. The Room is such a funny bad movie and it’s even better at this theater because of all the canned responses the audience has to the shit happening on screen. its similar to how campy people get with Rocky Horror Picture Show. People throw plastic spoons and loudly jeer at the movie. occasionally Tommy Wiseau and maybe Greg Sestero will show up and you can take a pic. Highly recommend pregaming and then going with your friends at least once sometimes a specific audience for it will suck but overall it was always pretty fun.

@oldmanname

May 1, 2024

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leaving x dot com

(Yes, it's finally time. After 10+ years of on-and-off use, I finally left for good a few weeks ago and am here to evangelize. We need you thinking healthily. Besides, this website exists now!) ... I get it, it used to be fun. I was there for over ten years until recently. We used to get a dish of the hottest Conversation from the most in-the-know and influential writers, thinkers, and critics. But I’m telling you that El•n has won – X.com is markedly different from Twitter; that place is gone forever and this new Thing is changing you along with it and you need to GTFO of there right now. The default tone of “discourse” on X.com has necrotized into a haughty, patronizing, and unbearable mode of unilateral Quote Tweets delivered via the For You feed – they really should just call it your trough. You inject this slop straight into your bloodstream (because it's what you've always done); it then metastasizes and destroys your very concept of what it means to engage critically with the world. You think you know more because you're seeing more words about more things from more people that write more words about more things but really you're just getting angrier, you're just getting more used to pithy dunks and reductionism, you're just scrolling more, you're getting pumped up full of hot air and floating away from anything of real-world consequence ... rhetoric may be dead but your critical heart doesn't have to die with it. Please leave the site. It’s no longer worth your time and you will be shocked how much more clearly you will think about the same things. After all, you care about them, don’t you? It’s not like you’ll stop thinking about them.

@_loegan

Jan 28, 2024

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8 hours of vintage department store christmas music tapes

"Ambient music should accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting." – Brian Eno Christmas falls on a Monday this year, which means many of us have had to put in a full work week. At approximately 5pm today, we'll suddenly need to turn on our holiday brain – RELAX! we'll scream at ourselves. What better to induce a Xanax-like state of absent-minded – yet still holiday-related – bliss than corporate muzak? Whatever holiday-related ambience you're trying to cultivate or salvage, this may just be the absolutely perfect soundtrack ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKlEkKXBzQ

@_loegan

Dec 22, 2023

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ELI enis' exploration of the gen z-driven shoegaze boom

"So how did we get here? How did shoegaze, a genre short on hooks, memorable riffs, and magnetic personalities, that’s carried on as a niche strain of indie music since the initial wave of ‘gazers receded from the limelight in the mid-’90s, suddenly become a defining sound for Gen-Z rock fans?" Important and fascinating cover of a very real phenomenon. Part of what I found most fascinating is the compositional aspects of this new wave, which sees The Kids employing recording techniques more typically associated with pop songwriting – toplining to a "band" track created by a separate producer. https://www.stereogum.com/2245469/tiktok-has-made-shoegaze-bigger-than-ever/columns/sounding-board

@_loegan

Dec 19, 2023