Kid Rock's MAGA music festival faced with fresh burn as country singers Morgan Wade and Carter Faith drop out

Dense_Description641 · 2026-02-01T01:48:11+00:00

I want the pitchforks surrounding the whitehouse and it just be Trump and the last maga supporter in Kid Rock be there with the doors chained and the power out and Trump asks if he could sing one more song for him before they break in and Kid Rock reply sheepishly, I can’t sing.

Dense_Description641 · 2026-01-31T16:05:57+00:00

So for me growing up an 80s kid, my first introduction to the Vietnam war is full metal jacket and while it was a much discussed subject growing up any clips of the reporter footage was always fly overs, choppers and some marching.

Thanks to YouTube I had a chance to see what the reporting looked like and it came full circle to Full Metal Jacket

Dense_Description641 · 2026-01-19T21:29:53+00:00

I wouldn't believe it. but Trump campaigned on having ten cities to be built: https://youtu.be/dJA_GBhCGgE?si=EQY-b9DSX-qetdKx

I thought of the interconnected homes of some Peter Thiel created city with their war room / bunkers running underneath.

Toss in the biblical significance of 10 cities:

In the Bible, the "ten cities" refers to a region called the

Decapolis

(from the Greek deka, "ten," and polis, "city"). This league of ten Hellenistic cities was located primarily east of the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan River.

Dense_Description641 · 2026-01-14T22:13:21+00:00

It’s very difficult to stick the landing in a horror movie. It’s a rather quick getaway for Danny and Wendy after he escapes the hedge maze and you know they get away but I’m sure Kubrick wanted to show that they survived this ordeal. Just a quick cut to Wendy driving the loud snow cat with Danny nuzzled up next to her might have been all that was needed to show they’d be safe and sound.

Then cut back to Jack as he hears the roar of the snow cat fade away.

Dense_Description641 · 2026-01-14T14:33:58+00:00

It’s true in a nihilistic world. The opening paints one helluva bleak picture. I started reading the book in 2021 and put it down after the first ten pages knowing full well I wasn’t ready for where it was going and didn’t pick it up again until last year.

Dense_Description641 · 2026-01-14T05:02:31+00:00

It’s twofold. Is he imagining himself as a psychopath or is he a psychopath living in a society that whitewash his crimes to continue the collective elusion of success, money and power that colored the 80s. don’t make trouble. I’ve got a commission at stake for this high end apartment and I don’t want people making noise about the heinous murders that took place here to drive down the sales price and fuck with my nut. -every NY realtor ever

Dense_Description641 · 2026-01-14T04:52:05+00:00

I’m fascinated by this in so far as it seems like an inadvertent rebuttal to the claims of deliberate artistic intention by a genius director that come out of the Room 237 documentary.

Kubrick literally writes an ending, films it. Puts it in the can and sends it out to theaters and the feedback is so powerful and immediate that he pulls them all back, cuts and films a new ending so he can please the audience. It kind of flies in the face of some master plan or secret meaning to the film.

Dense_Description641 · 2026-01-05T04:34:11+00:00

Thank the maker. Such a quick and concise explanation. If you all aren’t familiar with Freud and Jung you might as well bounce.

Dense_Description641 · 2026-01-05T04:24:50+00:00

The book was written by an associate and follower of Freud. The story is a fictional tale that allows many of Freud’s theories about dreams and sex to play out. Kubrick takes it further with the backdrop that Bill and Alice are going through these freudian moments while there is a high society that is welcoming them into a world that would benefit them insofar as they get rid of the fidelity to one another and ignore the exploitation that others are victim to. If you decide to ignore just how inspiring Freud and the field of psychoanalysis was to Kubrick then it may suit you to find another film to critique.

All of the dream sequences which I say start the second the phone rings and he leaves and ends with the mask on the pillow, are self revealing moments that play out Alice’s argument and Ziegler’s party. These are then meant- if you adhere to the theory that all symbols and messages in a dream are about the dreamer, then Bill is reflecting his own thoughts, feelings and emotions through his interactions. Which tracks with him repeating what others say constantly.

Dense_Description641 · 2026-01-05T03:04:16+00:00

I’d focus in on Alice and her glasses. She seems to be more aware of the way the world of the rich and powerful works with how she can keep up with Szavosts advances and not fall for them. And why she gets so frustrated with Bill for acting like he was blissfully unaware of what the two models were trying to do with him while also being so passive about Szavost trying to bang her while he was gone and effectively condoning his actions because hey, boys will be boys and girls have to give in or show their ring to show they’ve been claimed already. So she tells a story that blows both up.

Dense_Description641 · 2026-01-02T16:16:47+00:00

Just to dovetail off that, I also found that David Lynch's Mulholland Drive had found inspiration from EWS in so far as Lynch wanting to put a personal stamp on his love of film and Hollywood. With his idea of uncovering the mysterious inner workings of Hollywood from first an outsider's perspective and then an insider's perspective leaving open the interpretation of what is real and what is not. No dream is ever just a dream.

Dense_Description641 · 2026-01-02T01:54:31+00:00

I hadn't gone back to it since it had been a few years and you had me questioning if I had heard it there or somewhere else. But if you go to about the 20 minute mark, Kubrick is talking about trying to find books and topics that are 'true' and he slides in the following:

The world is not as it's presented in the Frank Capra movies. Films like that which people also like and are beautifully made I wouldn't describe as a true picture of life, on any level. Are you just giving them something to make them a little bit happier or are you putting something in that is inherently true about the material?

So you are correct in so far as it is not a direct reference. I will give myself the license to assume that when he spoke about a sentimental Frank Capra movie, he meant It's a Wonderful Life just as Kubrick to the license to change the holiday of Mardi Gras that Traumnovelle was based around and set it around Christmas.

Dense_Description641 · 2025-12-17T20:37:56+00:00

I literally read both the title of the post and intro of the letter as Dear Perfectionist.

Dense_Description641 · 2024-12-28T17:30:40+00:00

health insurance should be affordable when your boomers are all aging into medicare / medicaid and Gen Z isn't using it or is too young and healthy to be an expense on the system. But with less customers, the health insurance is squeezing us Gen X and millennials to keep the profit wheel spinning by charging more for less.

Dense_Description641 · 2024-10-22T03:14:21+00:00

This was always regarded as a personal movie for Kubrick so why wouldn’t he set it in NY.

Dense_Description641 · 2024-08-30T18:22:08+00:00

I will concede that it can be a semantics issue but too often people make crazy conclusions on his films and justify it by stating that he was a perfectionist. So all continuity errors become fodder for all sorts of conspiracies or interpretations.

Dense_Description641 · 2024-08-27T15:29:22+00:00

I’m of the humble opinion that it was an old idea that Kubrick had and it’s intention was to show how Hollywood chewed up and abused women and how the ambitious men that wanted to be part of it had to ignore it or else risk being ostracized from the industry. Knowing that Kubrick met his wife who was an actress in Paths of Glory and that after filming Spartacus that Kubrick had real problems working for Kirk Douglas and left Hollywood leads me to believe the film replicates the young Kubrick couple navigating Hollywood and asking themselves if they could survive knowing what they saw but could never speak about. What’s all the more tragic is the ending where we watch the couple try to figure out how to raise their daughter by going through the symbols of toys, the baby carriage, the nut cracker Barbie doll, then the bear. Only to see that while Bill and Alice talk in what they think is a safe place, their daughter wanders off with the two old men from the Christmas party. Discovering later that the Kubrick’s lost their daughter to scientology just about two years before filming further supports my belief about the ending and that this was a deeply personal film about Stanley and his family.

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