Fixed, thanks again!

Oh, thanks so much for the heads up. I didn’t know that!

Yeah, when I went through school they didn’t teach it this why but that is what I taught myself, much more simple math (+ & - with no * or \) in the same amount of steps.

Is that what they call Common Core? I’ve heard the term but didn’t know how it changed the method of teaching math.

Leave it to my AuDHD brain to figure out a less strenuous path to the same endpoint…

I wonder if this is an anxiety source for ASD/ADHD/AuDHD people. Having to constantly re-map lessons taught to fit my neurodivergent brain that it now feels like the entire neurotypical world is gaslighting neurodivergents.

Pour one out for a legend tonight.

Funny thing is, he does have a helicopter and his helicopter pilots license. Which he got in case of emergencies. After the LA fires this year I saw an interview with him where he was talking about it.

He was making fun of himself because he got his license and the helicopter to flee things like the LA fire but helicopters are expensive and he couldn’t afford more than a 2-seater so he can’t take his whole family if he ever had to really use it.

So my comment was based off a real thing he may say as to why he needed the money.

Tbh though, I could see him going with that third one.

I feel this comment acutely.

Thank You!!

Agreed about 90s Chappelle… I think he would have had more empathy and understanding in selecting gigs than current Chappelle.

You’re right, I guess spin is the wrong word here since it is a PR term and Bill Burr isn’t a PR type of guy.

I intended to mean, I wonder what he will say about this when he is publicly asked about it.

I am assuming he will be blunt and honest with answers ranging from,

“it’s none of your damn business”

to

“I needed a new helicopter that has more than 2 seats so I can evacuate my family from LA safely once shit hits the fan and I don’t want to put myself in a Sofie’s Choice kinda situation”

or

“Sorry, I wasn’t thinking when I accepted the job but donated the paycheck to the 9/11 families fund.”

I don’t know, I think Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is his best movie. That is saying a lot because Kill Bill is epic… but Hollywood is sincere and personal. I think it is the movie that has the most of him in it.

I liked the slow realization that the film may be building towards the Manson/Tate murders. It was a fun & anxious slow burn. Watching Margot Robbie’s Sharon Tate just be a nice person wondering around being a free spirit starts to build the anxiety of “will it” or “won’t it” happen at the end. If you weren’t familiar with the backstory of the Manson family or the Sharon Tate murder then that plot-line’s emotional effect falls flat with the viewer. Those murders were a watershed event that helped accelerate the end of the golden age of Hollywood.

Brad Pitt’s character being close to so much temptation, money and fame but staying grounded and an anchor for his troubled friend who is lost in the fame cycle but who he genuinely cares about brought a lot of late 60s wholesomeness to the movie too.

To me there was a lot of brilliant decisions made in that movie, like mostly the only real music you hear is from whatever someone is playing on their radio/stereo within the scene or over loud speakers in a restaurant. There is hardly any traditional soundtrack and that is a grounding experience. Things that a lot of people wouldn’t notice in terms of framing or atmosphere building that aligned with the era of time the movie takes place in and subtly makes it feel more genuine and authentic. There were a lot of creative filmmaking decisions to highlight the simplicity of that time as we look back from an era of complex technology and media over-exposure.

The technical movie stuff is all well and good but what really makes Hollywood so special is it is also self-referential as it is a story of an aging Hollywood icon who doesn’t know if he still has the ability to perform to the standard he knows he is capable of achieving. He recognizes he is changing and the world isn’t what it used to be when he was at his greatest. There is self-doubt about whether his glory days are over or if it is going to be different but better future. It is a story set in Tarantino’s home turf that influences some of his most formative years, a time he wished he got to live in, full of movie magic and endless potential but we are stuck with someone aging out of it. It takes a child on a set where DiCaprio’s character feels like he has hit rock bottom to show him he still has potential. That listening to the new people in the industry and their take on how it is changing inspires him to keep going, that the best may still be ahead of him. He accepts that, doesn’t phone in his villain performance but embraces his experience and discovers he has a whole new potential. Which, at the end of the movie, directly leads him to quite literally walk through the gates into the next era of filmmaking that is about to start; into the home of one of the hottest new filmmakers for the 70s just before he hits it really big just after having saved his wife (and unborn child) from getting murdered and possibly averting a huge crime that ruined said filmmakers life.

It is a movie about a time we can’t recapture but we hold on a pedestal, about an event that was terribly tragic and changed the public perception around drugs, the hippie movement and Hollywood. Playtime was over and the addiction/withdrawal is setting in. A time that greatly influenced Tarantino as a person and he lived where it all happened, within the aftermath of Hollywood changing because of these events and its loss of the image of innocence. It influenced the world he lived in as a teenager as it ushered in the grit, grime and gore of the 70s It is the backdrop to his origin story but also to his mid-life crisis movie. Reconnecting him with the hometown as it was in his youth but where he gets to experience what he believes is the heyday of the industry he has dedicated his life to. All through the lens of an aging director looking back at it with an entirely different perspective.

It is kind of a love letter to the world that inspired him to be who he is today, reconnecting with who he was and wanted to be but as an adult moving into a new phase of his life. The movie is filled with cameos of so many of the actors he has worked with and influencers who inspired and shaped him during his career.

The audience and the filmmaker are both unsure of what happens next because for us it’s the retelling of a murder that changed so much of the world. For him it was a world he wanted to be a part of but it ended before he could. Hollywood is a closing out an obsession with the golden era he never got to experience but greatly influenced the one he did. By changing the real ending to these events he gives us a more hopeful one. An ending that if it happened in real life it could have extended that golden era so he may have gotten live in it. He allows potential for growth and new possibilities beyond what he has been obsessed with, almost like he is giving himself permission to allow that within himself.

He got married for the first time not long before the movie was released, at age 55, to a woman he broke up with and then reconnected with years later. They have two young kids now. He hasn’t made a movie in the 6 years since. He says he has one more in him but I think he is waiting until he has some more life perspective before he commits to whatever it ends up being because he isn’t the same person anymore that he was for those first 9 movies.

Anyway, that’s why I like it.

Agreed on the Bill Burr part.

He is the only one who I was surprised and disappointed to see attending. All those others are people who’d I expect to chase money over morals and I didn’t respect as individuals already.

I wonder how he is going to spin this.

It’s not lazy to ask someone who seems to know something about the topic within a discussion thread about said topic. You know more than I do on this.

I understand how you may not want to take the time to answer someone’s question but also you could have replied with the link you eventually did instead of saying “Seriously?” Within the context of calling others lazy you could also qualify under the same term since you took the time to respond but not with the answer.

With search being what it is nowadays I wouldn’t know if I am getting a good result to find out the answer since it is of a technical and specific nature I may or may not even know if I am familiar with to begin with. It could take me much longer to figure it out, or I will give up and not be interested in finding out more about a field you seem to have an interest and knowledge about and I am demonstrating I want to know more about.

I think it is fair to ask for more information from someone who shows more expertise in the topic before searching.

Thanks!

Agreed!

I don’t know what this is but it is a topic I am somewhat familiar with and it is somehow significant enough to be a headline.

Curious minds would like to know more.

Apologies for the long post but I am going to reminisce for a minute;

I saw it in theaters when it was released as the Grindhouse double feature. I loved “Planet Terror” and was so looking forward to “Death Proof” but was ultimately disappointed in it.

While the cinematography, stunts and etc were great the problem I had with it was that it was too self-referential about how cool it was. Tarantino sometimes writes his stories in way that setup a rule or theme and then the story does that rule or theme. Like he calls out the gimmick and then shows his version of it all within the story. That initial conversation with all the friends at the diner explains what the whole movie is going to be about and that ruined it for me. It is a gimmick he employed more liberally in his earlier movies but rarely does nowadays. I’d like to think it is a lesson he learned from this movie and it made him a better filmmaker.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Tarantino movies and his thoughts on cinema in general. I watched a double feature of “Machine Gun McCain” & “Rolling Thunder” (a movie so dear to him that he named one of his now defunct film studios after it) with him at the New Bev in LA back in 2007 that were his personal 35mm prints of those films. There were about 30 people in attendance and he introduced both films. This was not long after Grindhouse came out. I talked to him about Death Proof and my thoughts on it. He was receptive and also a bit defensive at first but opened up after a few minutes. It was a cool convo to get to have during the intermission between movies.

Other highlights from the night;

He seemed a bit coked up, especially during Rolling Thunder.

He sat in the same row as me but about 3 seats down with no one in between us.

He kept rocking back and forth, the rows of seats back then at the New Bev were old school theater seats where they were all bolted together so it rocked the entire row every time he moved. It drove me nuts!

He asked for some of my Chinese food that I got from the takeout restaurant across the street.

I saw him there a few more times after that, he remembered me and we would chat about nerdy and hardly remembered old movies for a bit or just do that heads up nod to each other in passing. He can talk when he gets going on a topic of interest. I tried to never sit in the same row as him after that first time though, I’d always try and sit in a row in front of him because he’d move a lot, like he doesn’t like sitting still, or didn’t at the time, and that would always distract me if I was sitting behind him but that’s a me thing and not something I can blame him for… when you gotta move you gotta move.

I haven’t been back to the New Bev since I moved away from LA a couple years later but I hear he owns it now to keep it running. He has, or had at the time, the largest private collection of 35mm print film in LA, maybe California? I can’t remember the actual stat but it was a large collection. The New Bev only shows 35mm film prints so they would get their movies from studios or private collectors, Tarantino being one of them. He grew up going to Grindhouse double/triple features in the LA area, so the theater was a bit of a nostalgic playground for him. It had been open for 30 years at that point and when the original owner died his son struggled to run it for a bit and then Tarantino ended up buying it from what I hear.

If you haven’t been then you should go and catch a movie there if you have the opportunity. Back then the audience was mostly cinephiles, film geeks, film industry professionals and sometimes actors and/or directors of the movies we were watching. I met a lot of famous people just chilling in the audience trying to catch a movie they did decades before and hadn’t seen in a long time or movies that inspired them as a kid. I remember meeting Elliott Gould at a double feature of “The Long Goodbye” and “California Split” and Edgar Wright during some monster movie marathon. Fun times.

https://thenewbev.com/

Hey everybody, we got someone sucking off little mangos over here!

Paper towel or napkin works too for getting enough grip to manipulate a mango seed without it slipping.

Love the passion you have for this and you clearly have experience. Mango is my favorite fruit, by far.

I have questions.

*Why should I be shamed for cutting them into skinless squares?

*If I didn’t eat them it with a fork should I still be shamed for cutting mango into skinless squares?

*What is cutting into cups? Sounds like a style of cutting/preparing but also could be just the receptacle you use to hold the mango, so I am confused by the ambiguity.

*It seems that your mango experience is South Asian centric, as you point out, but have you had much experience with Central/South American mangos? If so, how are they different from your preferred mango varietals?

Thank you for the list of mangos I should try. I may have had several of them before as I have travelled through South Asia several times, but alas, it was in the less mango informed days of my youth.

Keep on keeping on, mango buddy!

I wanted to see a Weird Al video about medbeds but all they had was a Weird AI video about medbeds…