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Cake day: January 7th, 2024

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  • Oh great. The one thing that could make me want to pay attention to the MCU again and it sounds like want an X3 right out of the gate.

    For fuck’s sake look at all the terrible Fox X-Men films (X3, Wolverine Origins, the third act of the Wolverine, Apocalypse, Phoenix) and do the opposite of that Marvel. It’s not rocket science.

    Hire writers that are deeply aware of the X-Men comic universe, do the stories justice, and do the characters justice. People may complain and whine that it’s too “woke” but that’s literally been the point since the beginning. They should lean heavily into the progressive themes.

    This is the thing Marvel needs to reignite the MCU and if that’s the guy they want to write it they may be screwing themselves from the get go. I hope that we are wrong about that.











  • I was literally in your position mentally and practically situationally just a brief bit of time ago. The situation isn’t fixed yet but my mental state has rebounded to a much better equilibrium.

    So I say to you, having just been through the darkest period of my life, you can make it through. I didn’t think I could this time. It really fucking felt like I couldn’t.

    But I just kept saying to myself give it another day and see what happens. The days still sucked for a good stretch still but then things got brighter and brighter.

    Is everything now sunshine and rainbows? Not even fucking close. But does it feel like there’s still hope? For sure. There is. I just had to stick around long enough to realize there is.

    So I get where you’re coming from. I do. Shit looks fucked right now. Like there’s no upside to anything . No hope. No future. No peace. No happiness.

    Yet there almost certainly is to each of those things. It’s just impossible to see right now.

    Stay around for a little longer. See how things look then.

    And as a final thought here’s a mantra my best friend likes to live by and I have come to adopt as well.

    The only real way out is through.


  • It’s not the director but Roger Ebert has a fantastic commentary track on the director’s cut of Dark City. Hands down the best commentary track I’ve ever heard for a film and I’ve definitely listened to plenty. He points out so many details that I never noticed even after countless rewatches as it is my favorite film. It blew my mind.

    I didn’t even realize he did a commentary track for it until one day I noticed it mentioned him on the DVD case. I fired it up and was in for a magical surprise. Highly recommended.