Moss Elixir
@sorryforlaughing.bsky.social
She/her. Interests: art films, cult films, vintage television, video art, late night radio, backlisted books, dharma bums, suburban anomie, field recordings, found footage, lost futures, words, sounds, you.
Watching Stanley Kramer's On the Beach & my big takeaways are that Fred Astaire & Ava Gardner are surprisingly great, Gregory Peck is exactly what you'd expect & Anthony Perkins is egregiously miscast. As nuclear apocalypse films with submarines in them go I still prefer The Bedford Incident.
February 19, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Watching Stanley Kramer's On the Beach & my big takeaways are that Fred Astaire & Ava Gardner are surprisingly great, Gregory Peck is exactly what you'd expect & Anthony Perkins is egregiously miscast. As nuclear apocalypse films with submarines in them go I still prefer The Bedford Incident.
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There’s a Mary Tyler Moore episode where WJM hires Lou Grant’s fail-nephew who, when assigned to shoot live footage of a five-alarm fire, instead films nearby ants building a nest “to show the viewer that in the midst of chaos, life goes on” & I’ve always kind of sympathized with that.
February 19, 2026 at 3:14 PM
There’s a Mary Tyler Moore episode where WJM hires Lou Grant’s fail-nephew who, when assigned to shoot live footage of a five-alarm fire, instead films nearby ants building a nest “to show the viewer that in the midst of chaos, life goes on” & I’ve always kind of sympathized with that.
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Fucking hell. Never, ever accept the role of Poet Laureate.
I'm looking at you Simon Armitage.
I'm looking at you Simon Armitage.
Forty years since Ted Hughes wrote his single most excruciating Laureate poem, for the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson
February 19, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Fucking hell. Never, ever accept the role of Poet Laureate.
I'm looking at you Simon Armitage.
I'm looking at you Simon Armitage.
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Graceland Cemetery coyotes
February 19, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Graceland Cemetery coyotes
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lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day
February 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM
lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day
Everyone had something to say about their accents, but they talked like my grandfather & so even though vehicular everything makes my eyes glaze over it was a comforting listen.
My grandparents always had Car Talk on. Not because they cared about cars (they didn't) but because they liked hearing working class people on the radio.
February 18, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Everyone had something to say about their accents, but they talked like my grandfather & so even though vehicular everything makes my eyes glaze over it was a comforting listen.
Happy lunar new year & Chinese New Year & Mardi Gras & Paczki Day & Pancake Day & Huey Newton's birthday & eve of Ramadan & eve of my birthday. Yes, I know those aren't paczki in the picture but what do you even want from me.
February 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Happy lunar new year & Chinese New Year & Mardi Gras & Paczki Day & Pancake Day & Huey Newton's birthday & eve of Ramadan & eve of my birthday. Yes, I know those aren't paczki in the picture but what do you even want from me.
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"Everything is beautiful."
--The last line spoken in Wiseman's final film, MENUS-PLASIRS LES TROISGROS.
--The last line spoken in Wiseman's final film, MENUS-PLASIRS LES TROISGROS.
February 16, 2026 at 9:03 PM
"Everything is beautiful."
--The last line spoken in Wiseman's final film, MENUS-PLASIRS LES TROISGROS.
--The last line spoken in Wiseman's final film, MENUS-PLASIRS LES TROISGROS.
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The impact of Frederick Wiseman on nonfiction filmmaking was seismic beyond measure and beyond compare. Like how do you even begin to consider his influence on documentary technique or his decades of insight into how institutions (and artistic spaces) operate? What a treasure. R.I.P.
February 16, 2026 at 8:55 PM
The impact of Frederick Wiseman on nonfiction filmmaking was seismic beyond measure and beyond compare. Like how do you even begin to consider his influence on documentary technique or his decades of insight into how institutions (and artistic spaces) operate? What a treasure. R.I.P.
Special thanks for alerting me to a delightful indie I never knew about, Stony Island, especially appropriate for right now because just when you think it can't get more old-school Chicago it makes a sudden great tangent into New Orleans jazz. Currently on Tubi & Hoopla so what're you waiting for.
The 2026 edition of @blackfilmarchive.bsky.social's 28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month is out. A good number of these are available online for free. Thank you @mayascade.bsky.social 🖤
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026
28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month
28 Films to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Black History Month
blackfilmarchive.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Special thanks for alerting me to a delightful indie I never knew about, Stony Island, especially appropriate for right now because just when you think it can't get more old-school Chicago it makes a sudden great tangent into New Orleans jazz. Currently on Tubi & Hoopla so what're you waiting for.
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Why isn’t the MCU doing this? Imagine giving Todd Haynes or Richard Linklater 150 million dollars to make this
February 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Why isn’t the MCU doing this? Imagine giving Todd Haynes or Richard Linklater 150 million dollars to make this
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February 14, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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Well my name's John Keats and I'm here to say / that Beauty is Truth, in a major way
February 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Well my name's John Keats and I'm here to say / that Beauty is Truth, in a major way
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House (1977, Obayashi)
February 14, 2026 at 9:55 PM
House (1977, Obayashi)
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For @letterboxd.social’s underseen romances I wrote about Theodore Witcher’s LOVE JONES.
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/unde...
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/unde...
February 14, 2026 at 5:24 PM
For @letterboxd.social’s underseen romances I wrote about Theodore Witcher’s LOVE JONES.
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/unde...
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/unde...
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I think I've woken up to them outside the house twice now? I'm okay with it - time wasted trying to scare me is time spent not kidnapping a vulnerable neighbor.
Anyway if you go out at fuckass o'clock with your phone in one hand and a whistle ready in the other, they see you and leave lol.
Anyway if you go out at fuckass o'clock with your phone in one hand and a whistle ready in the other, they see you and leave lol.
I’ve talked with two different people who’ve experienced this (and are aware of it)
ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:58 AM
I think I've woken up to them outside the house twice now? I'm okay with it - time wasted trying to scare me is time spent not kidnapping a vulnerable neighbor.
Anyway if you go out at fuckass o'clock with your phone in one hand and a whistle ready in the other, they see you and leave lol.
Anyway if you go out at fuckass o'clock with your phone in one hand and a whistle ready in the other, they see you and leave lol.
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Several notable Florida Men in this movie, not just Ned Racine
February 13, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Several notable Florida Men in this movie, not just Ned Racine
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On this day in 1960, students from Nashville's Black colleges launched anti-segregation protests and later braved violent attacks by white mobs.
Feb. 13, 1960 | Nashville Students Launch Protest; Face Violence and Jail Time
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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February 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
On this day in 1960, students from Nashville's Black colleges launched anti-segregation protests and later braved violent attacks by white mobs.
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Wuthering Heights? A blatant hacienda melodrama that camps out on poverty row, pushing mediocre actors & hyperbolic montage to the max, before blasting triumphantly into the stratosphere, Luis Bunuel's 1954 Mexican version is a true surrealist classic.
Wuthering Heights? A blatant hacienda melodrama that camps out on poverty row, pushing mediocre actors & hyperbolic montage to the max, before blasting triumphantly into the stratosphere, Luis Bunuel's 1954 Mexican version is a true surrealist classic.
Abismos de Pasión (1954)
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.
Director: Luis Buñuel.
Stars...
rarefilmm.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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Wuthering Heights? A blatant hacienda melodrama that camps out on poverty row, pushing mediocre actors & hyperbolic montage to the max, before blasting triumphantly into the stratosphere, Luis Bunuel's 1954 Mexican version is a true surrealist classic.
Wuthering Heights? A blatant hacienda melodrama that camps out on poverty row, pushing mediocre actors & hyperbolic montage to the max, before blasting triumphantly into the stratosphere, Luis Bunuel's 1954 Mexican version is a true surrealist classic.
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If you think you saw Godzilla, no you didn't.
February 13, 2026 at 12:45 AM
If you think you saw Godzilla, no you didn't.
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Iggy Pop agreed to record the title song for REPO MAN when braced by his neighbor, Olivia Barash, who stars in it. The unexpected, outrageous success of this soundtrack forced the studio to throw their full weight behind a weird little genre film they’d previously ignored
youtube.com/watch?v=wS8f...
youtube.com/watch?v=wS8f...
Iggy Pop - Repo Man with lyrics
YouTube video by Dick Narcowitz
youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Iggy Pop agreed to record the title song for REPO MAN when braced by his neighbor, Olivia Barash, who stars in it. The unexpected, outrageous success of this soundtrack forced the studio to throw their full weight behind a weird little genre film they’d previously ignored
youtube.com/watch?v=wS8f...
youtube.com/watch?v=wS8f...
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Draw a horse. Let her run free with her new bffs
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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February 12, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Draw a horse. Let her run free with her new bffs
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It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.
I have neighbors everywhere.
I have neighbors everywhere.
February 12, 2026 at 2:37 PM
It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.
I have neighbors everywhere.
I have neighbors everywhere.