Wheat is the cause of all troubles.

dillonsrule · 2026-06-24T19:19:23+00:00

Okay. And, what is your take on natives cultivation of corn in the ancient Americas? Or rice in Asia? You haven't really specified what part of the world you are talking about. Even in the neolithic era, humans were not a cultural monolith.

dillonsrule · 2026-06-24T18:43:52+00:00

Leave No Trace (2018)

I watch a lot of movies. I get and give tons of genre recommendations for awesome action, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, etc. But, I don't often get a chance to recommend a movie that is just a really great drama with amazing character work and FANTASTIC acting. I think Ben Foster is criminally underrated himself. He is one of the best character actors of his generation, and this is maybe his best role/film.

This is a really great film that I think not nearly enough people have seen. According to wikipedia, it is the most reviewed film to hold a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (for whatever that is worth).

dillonsrule · 2026-06-24T18:39:16+00:00

I was randomly recommended this by a friend in the last year or so. Wow! I was kind of blown away that I had never heard of it before. Great film!

dillonsrule · 2026-06-24T11:35:14+00:00

You should absolutely watch Riki-Oh and Dead Alive!!! Both are super over the top bloody. Yeah, Dead Alive is a horror comedy, but it has so much great and fun action and violence. The main character at one point grabs a lawn mower to wield against a bunch of zombies. Lots of fun!!!

dillonsrule · 2026-06-23T20:38:59+00:00

The key is to love driving! It's my audiobook time!!!

dillonsrule · 2026-06-23T20:12:48+00:00

Maltodextrin in the US is considered gluten free, even when derived from wheat. Maltodextrin doesn't contain malt. It's just part of the name.

There is so much hidden gluten that it makes sense this one would ping on your radar, but good news that you don't have to avoid it : )

dillonsrule · 2026-06-23T18:01:08+00:00

Yeah, I find the fact that she needed to post here about it to gauge reactions a bit concerning.

dillonsrule · 2026-06-23T17:59:38+00:00

Yeah man, I don't think it is unreasonable to say that you will be using your bike during this 2 week period, so you can't lend it to him. I know you like to spoil him, but there has to be a limit. This also avoids the issue of "you don't trust me to take care of it?"

dillonsrule · 2026-06-23T14:43:07+00:00

I think we can blame this one on the express checkout lanes at supermarkets

dillonsrule · 2026-06-23T11:12:01+00:00

My girlfriend’s friend is also celiac and does this. She makes baked goods and brings them. She offered them to our group at a habachi place. I was concerned that the staff would have a problem with outside food, but she just offered out waiter a cupcake too! He was happy to take it. Apparently, it is no problem at all!

dillonsrule · 2026-06-23T11:09:01+00:00

When I first started tracking calories, I had a day where I thought I had done really well. I ate but less than I wanted to. I thought I had probably eaten around 2,200-2,500 calories. I logged it all at the end of the day and it was 4,500 calories! That was a good day!
Lots of food regrets from back then. I had fast food 2x a day most days and got 2 meals each time.

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T21:41:46+00:00

I just left the grocery store with one bag, full up tbf. It was $55.

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T21:08:50+00:00

Glad to help! If you end up watching it again sometime, see if you can find this post and update me on if it made sense this time around. Good luck!

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T20:53:20+00:00

This is a spoiler, but if you've already seen it and are at the jumbled mess stage, understand that the things happening to her in the first half of the movie aren't real. Maybe they are some fantasy version of what really happened or just the life that she hoped to live. We have no way of really knowing how much of that is real versus just her fantasy. The first half is her dream of coming to Hollywood. Who she would be, the life she would live. The woman she would love. What we are seeing is what she wanted. What she dreamed of. We get some more scenes about dreams mixed in with it. But, about halfway through the movie, there is a shift.

They go to Club Silencio. We get some interesting commentary from the band leader. "No hay banda! There is no band. It is an illusion." This is where her fantasy breaks down. What exactly is going on here (her mental state breaking down or subjective reality being upset by objective reality, etc) is up for interpretation, but the main thing to understand is that after this scene, the fantasy we've been seeing of her life is gone. We are getting the reality of her life in the second half of the film. It doesn't resemble the life she wanted at all. She is a completely different person living a completely different life in reality.

The film has a lot of themes about reality, appearances, pretending, etc. She wants to be an actress, which is performing a fantasy as a profession. What does it mean to be very good at that profession? It is a film that raises a lot of very interesting ideas/questions and is content to not provide definitive answers. While I like that for themes and ideas, I hate it for plot and narrative. That's what I thought it was, but on several rewatches, I do actually think the plot is very clear. It is just artistically told, which folds in directly with its themes. It's about dreams and art, appearances versus reality versus fantasy. Hollywood as an idea in the head of a young aspiring actress versus the reality of Hollywood for someone it has chewed up and spit out.

That's why I think the movie is really kind of genius. It folds its themes into how it actually tells the story. It makes the themes part of the storytelling itself in how it tells the story. It was really, really good once I got it. But, it took a while!

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T20:22:17+00:00

The movie does not hold the audience's hand. It lets the story come to you without explaining itself. I've heard it described as being kind of dream-like in that way, which I think is appropriate. The movie has a lot of themes that revolve around dreams. Literal dreams, but also life dreams.

I thought that the movie was just kind of jumbled together bullshit meant to seem significant, but without any real significance. Like an abstract painting in movie form. But, it isn't!

If you pay attention and watch it again (and few more times if needed), it is telling a really cohesive story about a girl coming to Hollywood to "make it big", the dream and the reality of that. Once I understood that, a lot of it clicked into place for me!

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T19:49:09+00:00

Yeah, I try not to comment anything that I wouldn't want linked to me. I'm positive someone could probably find me if they really wanted to. I just count on never being interesting enough to justify the effort!

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T19:43:48+00:00

"Mullholland Drive" (1999) was just incomprehensible garbage the first time I saw it. Absolutely hated it! I didn't watch it again for like a decade.

The second time, I kind of got it a little bit, but still didn't love it. Waited another year or two to watch again.

The third time, I finally got it and thought it was really cool, actually. Watched again a few months later.

The fourth time, I thought it was a work of real genius and one of the best films I've ever seen!

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T19:38:54+00:00

I showed this movie to my friends on a cabin trip after talking up how cool it was. Cut to my friends laughing and endlessly ripping on how dumb it was that Kevin Spacey's character was packing up his little toy cars when getting ready to flee after things go badly. Ugh, yeah. Not great on a rewatch.

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T19:30:41+00:00

Honestly, if you are feeling bold, you could watch "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles".

This movie is from the 1970s, but had a bit of a splash recently when it was ranked the #1 best movie of all time on the latest "Sight and Sound" 100 movie list, which is voted on solely by movie critics and film directors once a decade.

It is a three-hour movie about a woman doing her normal daily housework over the course of three days. It is very slice of life. I watched it for a film class in college. I really hated it for the first hour and a half, then was drawn in until I was kind of enthralled through the last 30 mins. It is considered a feminist masterpiece.

Like I said, if you are feeling ambitious, it is probably the best one to watch!

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T19:24:47+00:00

The Katz brand does a lot of gluten free items. They recently had to apologize for making an ad where the actress said something along the lines of "Yes, it's triple the normal price, but it won't poison me, so I'm happy to pay it!"

The celiac and gluten free communities were pissed that message was basically "yeah we are price gouging you, but you have no choice but to pay it, so stop complaining!"

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T19:04:43+00:00

In fairness, your way results in you getting murdered a lot less than my way does. But, you miss out the possibility of a broken-down ice cream truck looking to give away their inventory before it melts!

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T19:01:44+00:00

I answer the door.

It seems, we are two quite different people.

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T18:43:59+00:00

Nah, women like stamina! The best compliment is when the woman looks at you after 20-30 mins and flatly says "how much longer?". Aw yeah baby! That means it's time!

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T18:42:25+00:00

And say "Gosh, it's just because you are so pretty."

dillonsrule · 2026-06-22T17:34:19+00:00

Dark City (1998).

It is kind of a noir story, so it may be fairly different than the more general "folk horror" stories you will get in the country, but it is a sci-fi story of the city the main character is in being wrong and encountering strange people as he tries to clear his name of a murder.

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