Atp Art From A While Ago!! :)

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) | dir. David Lean

this is how i’ve been feeling recently

Text stolen from a Reddit comment. Summarizes my feelings on the new album’s lyrics…

“As I get older everything just feels a bit colder and a bit more bleak but there are things in my life that give me… life. Like a gig, or a love song, or a pub.. They’re places not for competition or consumption; they’re just places for feeling.”

— Eli Hewson featured on A View, From a Bridge’s instagram page

My friend on Nathan Fielder

there's something about deeming women simply biologically incapable of playing five sets, as they used to be deemed biologically incapable of running marathons, before giving them a chance to actually play five sets in the first place, and then using five set tennis — something only men have been given the opportunity to partake in and test themselves in and practice and train for — as the benchmark for what qualifies as good, chatrier night session worthy tennis.

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.

it occurred to me that i didn’t have this epic and iconic video on my blog. i had to make things right.

I’ve been overdependent on caffeine recently I don’t know if my heart can handle this one 😭

tennischannel They not like Serena. 👑

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!!!