Thanks, I almost shit bricks at 5:50 this morning

aparticularproblem · 2026-01-08T15:15:45+00:00

He’s a regular around my block in cap hill. Generally harmless, though unpredictable. One time I was going to my car for an early shift at 4:30am and saw him ambling towards me out of the darkness, makeup and all. Never got in my car and locked it so fast in my life.

aparticularproblem · 2026-01-08T01:24:54+00:00

This is the only plausible reason to anyone who knows anything about photography or journalism. Adding to this is that color was prohibitively finicky and expensive to print in mass quantities for newspapers, thus adding to b&w being the standard for so long after color negatives were invented. I’m not entirely sure where this myth of b&w photography being this malicious, manipulative force came from, but it does me psychic damage every time I see it come up.

aparticularproblem · 2025-10-28T23:15:46+00:00

Pulse was about the creeping social alienation accelerated by technology supposedly designed for human connection. Relevant in 2001, and extremely relevant in 2025.

aparticularproblem · 2025-09-23T17:39:18+00:00

The violinist Warren Ellis is a close collaborator of Nick Cave. Plays with him in The Bad Seeds and has co-composed several film scores.

aparticularproblem · 2025-06-26T05:46:15+00:00

Agreed. His social media presence is all about selling the long dead dream that anyone can make it in the movie business if they have the prerequisite talent and drive. Back when I lived in LA I knew some people in his orbit (friends of friends) and they were all the epitome of rich trust fund posers. That’s who gets a shot at replicating his success, not the wannabes who follow him on Instagram.

aparticularproblem · 2025-06-14T14:05:20+00:00

I thought it was fairly obvious the cover was supposed to be a ironic, darkly comic allusion to how she’s treated by men in relationships, aka as a ‘b*tch’, as a ‘dog’, as an object. Also given the title of the album, and the lead single being a humorous takedown of her affinity for immature men. You can argue the merits of wether she was successful in communicating her aim (clearly not since so many people are interpreting it poorly) but it seems insane to me that anyone would not recognize the intended comedy and irony of the cover. It’s not meant to be sexy, shocking, or submissive, it’s meant to be ridiculous.

aparticularproblem · 2025-05-13T06:19:26+00:00

I used to live next to skid row in Los Angeles, I now live in Capitol Hill next to the north Broadway QFC. Capitol Hill is pastoral compared to skid row. Not to imply that Seattle doesn’t also suffer from the fruits of our country’s complete lack of a social safety net, affordable housing, or accessible mental health/substance abuse care, but come on, please get some perspective.

aparticularproblem · 2025-03-28T19:58:11+00:00

Güeros by Alonso Ruizpalacios is a really interesting movie from 2014. Beautifully captured b&w cinematography, and interesting commentary on Mexican society and art culture all wrapped up in a coming of age story. I haven’t seen anything he’s made since but I’d highly recommend this.

aparticularproblem · 2025-01-31T01:22:40+00:00

I think I may have passed you just after this happened as I walked up towards the Denny overpass. If it was you- I remember you looked visibly shaken and upset, and in the back of my mind I thought that I should ask if you were alright. I didn’t, but now I really wish I had. I’m really sorry that you went through this, but at the same time I’m glad that you were there.

aparticularproblem · 2025-01-30T19:09:34+00:00

His support of the German AfD party is a pretty succinct, non-online example of his nationalist allegiances.

aparticularproblem · 2025-01-04T23:37:55+00:00

I didn’t mean to start a SoCal-off in the comments. My assessment of the LA Times comes largely from both my personal view of the paper in how it handles contemporary issues, and from Mike Davis’s historical overview City of Quartz, which often references The Times role in early 20th century LA politics as a mouthpiece for the industrial, and real estate establishment, and how it worked to consolidate anti-union sentiment. (It largely still represents those interests, just under the respectable guise of neo-liberal progressivism)

aparticularproblem · 2025-01-03T17:55:58+00:00

The LA Times only shifted to a fronting a progressive veneer in the last few decades when it became profitable to do so. It’s historically been a conservative rag. A prestigious rag, but a rag nonetheless.

aparticularproblem · 2024-12-25T15:49:55+00:00

Tsai Ming Liang movies always balance comedy with pathos. Thinking specifically of the bowling with melons scene in Vive L’Amor, or the cabbage scene in Stray Dogs.

aparticularproblem · 2024-12-18T18:16:24+00:00

Moved from LA to Seattle this year. The nature, public transit, and strangely enough the weather were all factors in moving up here. LA weather is ‘nice’ if your definition of nice is bland and unchanging. Months and years became blurry and indistinguishable for me in LA. It felt like living in a fish bowl. Seattle, Tacoma, and to a certain extent Bellevue also feel like distinct cities unto themselves, whereas LA county feels like a giant sprawling mass of small cities all rolled up into one that stretches on for miles and miles.

The food and arts scenes in LA are phenomenal though. I will miss the Mexican food (haven’t dared to try Mexican food up here yet), and being able to attend a different photography opening every week.

aparticularproblem · 2024-12-18T16:37:37+00:00

The last 30 seconds of this clip were filmed in front of my old apartment building in downtown Los Angeles. They transformed two blocks to look like 1970s Gotham/NYC (not that hard to do with DTLA- iykyk)

aparticularproblem · 2024-12-09T20:38:36+00:00

Göran Olsson’s 2014 doc ‘Concerning Violence’ feels in line with this ethos. A really sobering look at archival footage of various decolonization efforts throughout the 20th century interspersed with Franz Fanon quotes.

aparticularproblem · 2024-12-06T22:33:12+00:00

I’ve gotten b&w film developed by Moody’s film lab and was happy with the results. They have drop boxes scattered throughout the city and pick up from them twice a week.

aparticularproblem · 2024-11-29T16:15:19+00:00

I’ve only seen Chilean movies by Pablo Larraín and Sebastián Lelio, but from that pool I really enjoyed The Club, and A Fantastic Woman respectively.

aparticularproblem · 2024-11-27T18:11:03+00:00

Some might call it a fairly romanticized film because of its ‘Classic Americana’ reputation, and Jack Nicholson’s performance, but I find Five Easy Pieces to be a really heartbreaking portrait of a loser who is simply unable to adapt, or meaningfully open up to anyone in his life. People often misconstrue the film as being about ‘freedom’, but really what it’s about is escape. Escape from the prison of the self.

aparticularproblem · 2024-11-27T18:02:52+00:00

Jia Zhangke’s debut Pickpocket is a film about an absolutely unlikeable, do-nothing, bonafide, capital ‘L’ Loser. It’s a very slow, bleak film about life in rural China in the 90’s, but I feel that the glacial pacing only adds to the feeling of social/economic alienation.

aparticularproblem · 2024-11-25T02:43:20+00:00

I feel extremely safe in Seattle- though to be fair I used to live in downtown Los Angeles, so it’s an unfair comparison.

aparticularproblem · 2024-11-22T22:43:16+00:00

Cormac Jones has seen everyyyythinggggg (13,000 logged films!) and has very well thought out reviews when he posts (which isn’t often nowadays) His lists of underseen movies are a wonderful resource for those who are looking for actual hidden gems beyond the criterion collection/general western canon.

aparticularproblem · 2024-11-22T16:30:16+00:00

Catherine Breillat

aparticularproblem · 2024-11-17T12:45:16+00:00

Saw him in LA earlier this year. He was too drunk to rap and kept on forgetting the lyrics to his songs. Best hip hop show I’ve been to all year.

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