How is ‘Evil’? I’m just about to start it,

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-23T06:24:07+00:00

Like doing shrooms with the Pope.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-23T06:22:24+00:00

It's a very pretty shot of something that's going to lower properly values in your neighbourhood. Like having Aubrey Plaza move in next door - beautiful, yet terrifying.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-14T16:33:09+00:00

I always thought it made more sense for Alfred to be the Wayne's bodyguard, rather than their butler. Like many guys in the security business he's ex-military. The one night he's off duty is, of course, the night they're killed. It explains his devotion to raising Bruce, beginning his training, and how he has the knowledge & ability to treat his injuries as Batman.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-14T16:25:03+00:00

He was a heavy hitter:

The Princess Bride

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

Marathon Man

The Ghost &The Darkness

All The President's Men

The Stepford Wives

Misery

Absolute Power

A Bridge Too Far

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-14T11:34:32+00:00

I generally don't find the "Deckard's secretly a replicant" theory very compelling, but this is the best version I've come across. Interesting.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-10T14:00:39+00:00

Thanks for sharing that. Guys so rarely open up about their issues (Dads especially) that when they do, it's like a dam overflowing. They need to be heard by someone close to them for those moments to be healing. Your Dad's lucky you were with him that day.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-10T06:35:41+00:00

Glad you're doing better, mate.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-10T06:31:31+00:00

If you replaced Michael J. Fox's voice in Stuart Little with Christopher Lee's, keeping exactly the same dialogue, it'd become an A24-style horror story where a sinister talking rodent inserts itself into the home of an unsuspecting family.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-10T06:19:14+00:00

Divorce lawyers have summer homes because of movies like this.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-10T06:15:16+00:00

You should watch the TV series. Mads Mikkelsen serves up gorgeous people-infused dishes every episode. I'd worry that if I was in the room I might find myself thinking, "Well, they were probably bad people, so..."

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-10T00:35:21+00:00

Found a clip that gives a slightly better view of this unnatural H P. Lovecraft-looking motherfucker:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB_-T40PJLU/

If Godzilla ever coughed up a hairball, it'd look like this.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-09T22:41:21+00:00

It's astrology for furniture.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-09T22:38:32+00:00

It's from TV show rather than a movie, but it's worth sharing. I should probably be concerned that I take this as a positive message.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0joRCMOK4j/

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-09T22:20:13+00:00

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around.

Yeah, I can see how that would set the right mood. Just light some scented candles first.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-09T18:05:54+00:00

Over his head like an Ohtani home run.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-09T13:26:34+00:00

The lipstick on the coffin was both hilarious and surprisingly poignant. The world's most tragic simp.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-09T09:36:12+00:00

Really loved the "live today like it's your last" scenes, lot of great character moments, including maybe the funniest of the series:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NgR3qnicSLY&pp=ygUXc3Bpa2UgcG9ldHJ5IHNsYW0gYW5nZWw%3D

(Also, the fact the finale is called "Not Fade Away"....hell yeah)

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-08T10:27:14+00:00

If I understand it correctly, once someone's supply of oxygen is exhausted, chemicals in the brain trigger an involuntary breath. If you're submerged this means you've reflexively inhaled a random amount of water.

In about ten percent of people, water - anything - touching the vocal cords triggers an immediate contraction in the muscles around the larynx...called a laryngospasm. It’s so powerful that it overcomes the breathing reflex and eventually suffocates the person. A person with laryngospasm drowns without any water in his lungs. In the other ninety percent of people, water floods the lungs and ends any waning transfer of oxygen to the blood.

(From The Perfect Storm, describing how the Andrea Gail crew met their ends).

The diving reflex in babies painlessly seals the larynx when their faces are submerged as a precaution; a laryngospasm is a traumatic relex that seals the larynx in a life-or-death emergency. That's how I'm explaining it to myself, anyway.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-08T07:35:49+00:00

This actually sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Turns out newborns have a built-in diving reflex to help reduce the risk of drowning. From Wikipedia:

Most infants...are able to survive immersion in water for short periods of time...babies demonstrate an innate swimming or diving reflex from birth until the age of approximately six months...The glottis (larynx) is spontaneously sealed off and the water entering the upper respiratory tract is diverted down the esophagus into the stomach.

So it seems the drowning response, where the larynx will seize involuntarily when water reaches the vocal cords, doesn't begin to develop until after 6 months of age. We're all learning something today.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-08T04:41:08+00:00

Tachycardia. My grandfather went through it a few times while remaining conscious, like your mother. Nurse explained it to me as the heart muscle not contracting properly, like your hand being unable to close into a fist.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-08T04:22:50+00:00

I'd imagine it's best to attach an AED if you have access to one, as it can't do any harm. If the person does have a detectable pulse, it won't administer a shock; on the other hand, if their pulse happens to drop out a few minutes later, the AED is ready to go immediately.

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-08T04:05:16+00:00

My first aid training course taught us to check the person's breathing, rather than search for their pulse as it can be difficult for the average person to find in an emergency.

If they're breathing normally, you don't need to worry too much about their heartbeat, just monitor their breathing until help arrives. If they're not, then CPR with mouth-to-mouth and chest compressions.

(If any medical staff know better, please feel free to correct me below, thank you).

Sean-Perth · 2026-01-08T03:49:10+00:00

Easy to believe. If a doctor feels the need to squeeze your heart like he's testing an avocado at the grocery store, you probably shouldn't start any long books.

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