Derek @derek@laserdisc.party

Allow me to reintroduce myself.

My name is Derek. I'm an internet old-timer who lives in #Montreal, and I am the founder and admin of laserdisc.party, the video store of the fediverse (or so I like to think).

And while I do talk lots about #movies (went to grad school, wrote a thesis on The Room and Snakes on a Plane, have a film-crit website and two movie podcasts), I'm just as likely to talk about #music, #mtg, #wrestling, and your garden variety comedic nonsense.

Welcome!

#introductions

So I had just been podcasting for two hours and I had to keep it quiet cos it's 2 AM and my grammar's not 100% but here's my contribution to #MastoVoice https://instaud.io/2QH6

Behold

I'm going to copy my #CanHelpWith list over from dot-social.

- copywriting/copy editing
- translation (🇬🇧↔️🇫🇷)
- film history and criticism
- subtitling/closed captioning
- the fundamentals of podcasting
- wrestling appreciation
- Magic: The Gathering 101
- real basic graphic design stuff, like posters and such
- shooting the shit
- your garden-variety chorin' [local only]

I had headbanger hair when I was like 20, it was a weird time

like fuck me for wanting to temper the sludge cannon that is American politics

Also that headline and that article don't go together.

I know writers often don't get to pick the headline, but I don't know if this passes the sniff test as a piece of journalism.

>Visiting Mastodon feels like strolling through the first “apolitical” social network.

Are we even using the same platform bud

for the record, the word was cornice https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cornice#English

I'm 19 minutes into the work day and already two of my favourite things have happened: I've learned a new word, and discovered that there were donuts in the break room

Good morning Party People, it's your favourite movie boy reporting for duty on this glorious Friday morning

Gonna turn in early tonight y'all. Take 'er easy.

Toots that happen while I'm asleep don't exist

Good morning Party People

I know this is a tired, pat comparison, but this does feel like a Malickian action movie, what with the jaw-dropping photography and the mush-mouthed dialogue and the bittersweet, fleeting nature of human connections. The shapes and sounds of a macho opus twisted into an indigo tragedy.

I've never seen skies look like that in a movie.