giornata, 4/17/25

noises that annoy my dog edition

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Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2003, dir. Quentin Tarantino): I am agnostic to negative on Tarantino, mostly because I just don’t really care about the stuff in his movies. I have a strong sense that a lot of my movie tastes are ingredient based—I’ll like something set in a hotel, or with an actress in Jean Louis gowns, or something with repressed British people experiencing the continent as a metaphor for sex. And Tarantino is not quiet about his elemental tastes driving the creation of his movies and I’ve never gotten the sense that we align. (The casting of Damian Lewis as Steve McQueen + the wig they gave him that made him look less like Steve McQueen in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was very offensive to me, a woman who has a dog named Steve McQueen).

there's a clear winner here