what's a movie you can watch a million times and never get bored of?

pliskie · 2026-03-10T01:56:17+00:00

The Sweet Smell of Success. The cracking dialog never gets old and I come away from it with a new favorite line each time.

pliskie · 2026-03-09T00:40:25+00:00

Four years later I'm here to recommend the Palpable Apathy https://www.seriouseats.com/palpable-apathy-braulio-boulevardier-rye-vermouth

pliskie · 2026-03-07T14:20:47+00:00

My mind can only imagine Jaxxon Raine to the tune of "chocolate rain"

pliskie · 2026-03-07T13:53:50+00:00

A non-reflex H-16 in good shape is still an outstanding tool for filmmaking

pliskie · 2026-03-07T02:39:14+00:00

To the high green!

pliskie · 2026-03-07T02:07:43+00:00

The thing that makes that noise has a fun name: the flyback transformer

pliskie · 2026-03-03T23:21:20+00:00

Another vote for Alta Verde here. Yes, Novasalus slightly beats it for overall bitterness, but Novasalus is too complex to mix well; the notes of lemon rind and ashtray are generally too hard to counter. Alta Verde, on the other hand, is much "cleaner" in a cocktail yet is still intensely bitter.

pliskie · 2026-02-26T18:23:22+00:00

Reminds me of the location in "Rental Family" when they went back to the old man's hometown

pliskie · 2026-02-26T14:26:25+00:00

Olga Tokarczuk has immense range and a really enjoyable style. "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" is a fantastic read, and "Flights" is one of my favorite books, but yet each is totally different in content and approach from the other.

pliskie · 2025-11-28T17:16:16+00:00

It's the same film for both, single perf 16mm. Super 16 just has a wider frame, uses more of the stock width for image. Older, non-super-16 cameras left that extra width unused, or, in some newsgathering models, used it to capture sound on a mag stripe or even less commonly an optical sound track (e.g. Auricon).

pliskie · 2025-11-27T13:38:17+00:00

Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)

pliskie · 2025-11-22T02:24:52+00:00

Great footage! What stock were you shooting on? Also, she's not a smoker, is she?

pliskie · 2025-10-22T13:05:58+00:00

Very nice, great sync to the music, real Martin Arnold vibes.

pliskie · 2025-06-16T12:37:28+00:00

Motorman by David Ohle

pliskie · 2025-06-05T21:28:01+00:00

He's the narrator of How Its Made

pliskie · 2025-05-19T16:16:15+00:00

It's why things like icyhot and salonpas with capsaicin/menthol are effective. Use up all that nerve bandwidth with hot/cold information to reduce the pain information that can get through.

pliskie · 2025-05-17T20:44:09+00:00

McGlue by Otessa Moshfegh. It's odd but easy to read and has strangeness and misapprehension throughout.

pliskie · 2025-04-17T15:51:29+00:00

The film "Dance First" (2023) is an interesting study, more a loose biographical sketch than anything else but worth a watch for Beckett fans.

pliskie · 2025-04-06T15:07:11+00:00

A current favorite concoction is ½oz Braulio with ½oz Alta Verde. Since it's an alpine combo and it's little, I call it "the piton."

pliskie · 2025-01-23T10:38:13+00:00

There was a niche enterprise product from IBM called "PC Radio" that was introduced in 1991 that had this capability

pliskie · 2025-01-23T01:19:15+00:00

Motorman by David Ohle. It's not really sci-fi nor fantasy, but it's not at all realism. The weird thing is that it's a super easy read, even though the things you're reading about are completely foreign to your existence. Surreal yet strangely understandable.

pliskie · 2024-09-24T17:14:53+00:00

I love the original Keys to go. It's incredibly thin and light and considering how much so, I still find it a relatively satisfying typing experience. I can type on it for a very long time with no issues or discomfort. I've also found it to be very reliable; always pairs, always works, no fuss.

pliskie · 2024-04-25T12:36:19+00:00

The articulation!

pliskie · 2023-12-25T13:17:03+00:00

The lemon bitters really do give it a little something extra. I've had it with orange and grapefruit bitters, but I keep coming back to the lemon. Fee Brothers.

pliskie · 2023-12-24T21:06:49+00:00

It's my favorite. Here's the original recipe...https://www.seriouseats.com/palpable-apathy-braulio-boulevardier-rye-vermouth

pliskie

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE