PeterMacAulay
Weather is nice today though, I like it
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We should have listened when the millennials said #AdultingIsHard
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Entertaining the idea of a discrete world opens the possibility of perfection in such a world
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Following up on my previous post. I didn't want to re-write it, but I ran out of space and I want to clarify that I did like movie in general, up front, no reading between the lines, it was well made, and pretty well written plot. I just thought that the sub-text I picked up on what cool, and that I feel like action movies aren't anything if they don't have something like this. What is action if not hyperbolic, larger than life, and a way to hide a metaphor in exaggerated human interaction. I just wanted to clarify a bit because my other post felt a little too much like me saying you can't enjoy the action in an action movie. Action isn't my favourite, but I love when it's used like this.
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I just watched 'The Departed' and I really liked it. It's really interesting because I found the literal masking of identities with the blatant nods towards how that masking affects the character's abilities to be themselves, quite literally trapping them, to be very well done. I was curious as to other's perspectives on how the actual plot of the movie was just an abstract way of showcasing how identities we mask with affect us via the patriarchy, institutionalized racism, institutions such as the police or organized crime, etc,. So I searched up the movie only to find reviews full of people praising Scorsese for the glorious action sequences, or how cool being a cop or a gangster looks, or just talking about how Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio stole the show. I was just a little taken-a-back by how you could watch a movie like this and only view it as, "huh, cool action movie, kinda weird ending". I don't know, if you've seen the movie what did you think? I ran out of space.
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Got a library card, and hung out at the Charlottetown library today. very nice library if you're not familiar with it. Also checked out a 'Binge Box' from said library, which is a themed or curated box of movies or a tv series that you can watch on DVD. It was very fun and a great way to watch things you might not otherwise, it gives it a more substantial-ness to watching a movie. Would recommend
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Exams have ended!
PeterMacAulay
No one talks about the real issues in the world like the struggle that comes at the end of exam season in your fourth year of university, many exams have past, and still you have more to come. The end has been in sight for a while now and just won't arrive. Alas I must go on.
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While I've enjoyed a lot of new music from the end of 2025 and 2026 so far, I think that the tail end of 2026 and 2027 will be an explosion of really good new music. Do I have anything to back this up? Not really, but it feels like time, and there are a few artists that have been away for a couple years now and are starting to pop up again. I'm hoping for another 2023-2024 year where the hits just kept coming.
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That last post was a lie I made it so the page only loads 10 posts at a time so that the page will load faster. There is now a load more button at the bottom of the page which will load 10 more posts.