LADY JESSICA & LETO ATREIDES DUNE (2021) Dir. Denis Villeneuve

bros been coaching since the 2022 laver cup

jannik sinner (nitto atp finals, 2024) // jannik sinner (roland garros, 2025)

📸: Giamperi Sposito, Marco Bertorello, Julian Finney 

Lawrence of Arabia holds this absolutely fascinating position of being made by an Englishman who had grown up during WW1 and seen Britain go through WW2 and then decolonization and whose movies are so closely interwined with the direction Britain was heading as an Empire: from his propaganda-film In Which We Serve during WW2 to the dismantling of British military ideology and philosophy in Kwai in 1957, and then every movie for the rest of his career (except Zhivago, which is still an illuminating movie wrt his thoughts on Empire, the birth of ideology, authoritarinism, etc) is deeply concerned with Britain as a nation and doesn't shy away from the Colonial and Imperial legacy that continued to colour British society even post-decolonization. Lawrence is, on the one hand, one of the few British films about WW1 that doesn't center on the domestic experience of the war or on trench warfare on the West Front (both of which obscures the Imperialist and globalized reality of WW1 and excludes colonized peoples from narratives about the war) but on the other the main character is very much a white, English man in an archetypical White Saviour narrative but on the other hand again it is a deconstruction of the White Saviour story; Lawrence fails at his primary ambitions and does not get to "get his and go home" as Auda puts it, and leaves Arabia exceedingly traumatized, unsecure, insecure, and disillusioned: with Imperialism, with his romanticized notions of Arabia and the Bedouin, and with himself. Created by a visionary director who became almost as much as a "desert-loving English" as Lawrence himself and whom also, as can be seen from his movies, is disillusioned with Britain's Imperial past, present, and future while still being firmly in love with colonial areas (Arabia, India) that he tries to engage with and represent "authentically" while still coming from the vantage-point of a white Englishman whose whole life has been spent in a colonialist country grappling with it's territories and identity once bereft of them.

sorry but i physically CANT be friends with a girl whose whole life revolves around men/male attention. like PLEASE talk abt something else ho 😭

This is not the point but Kris Knoblauch is kinda—oh they’re down 0-5 okay

LMAOOO I am haunted by the “SERBIA 🎺🎺🎺 SERBIA 🎺🎺🎺” cheer from last year

that italian concert band is really starting to piss me off ngl 🤺

SERENA WILLIAMS during Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show at Super Bowl LIX

“I’m learning to lie. I’m learning to be insincere.”

Becoming the Fly

This video was inspired by Kelly Eddington's words in her article:

"In my mind, late 80s Bono was a mysterious figure. He was nowhere near as accessible as he is today, and he came across as intelligent and even brooding when discussing the band’s rise to fame. He didn’t seem to belong to that decade. His long hair wasn’t teased and sprayed (well, not anymore). He didn’t sing about rock ‘n’ roll debauchery. He possessed an above-it-all purity and even dressed like a Depression-era preacher. Then he and his band disappeared for a while.

They surfaced briefly in 1990 with “Night And Day,” a gorgeous Cole Porter cover I loved immediately. It left me wanting more and made me curious. U2 seemed to be on a new sonic path with Bono’s sensual/tortured performance and that doom and gloom synth. The shadowy video seemed to be a message transmitted from the center of the band’s own dark chrysalis. 

And one year later, a black butterfly emerged".

Excerpt from Kelly Eddington's article: #AB30: U2 Know How Beautiful U2 Are (@kellyeddington)

just guys having fun :)

(from the De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da music video)

MY arcane alternate universe where silco teams up with everyone’s other favorite eloquent sharp-dressed morally grey deeply emotional yet projects coldness villain with offputting eyes—grand admiral thrawn, of course—and they win zaun’s independence and then save the chiss ascendancy from the grysks. hire me fortiche!!!