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Anansi Boys

Neil Gaiman

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From bestselling storytelling legend Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods and The Ocean at the End...

Racing the Rain: A Novel

John L. Parker

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From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner, acclaimed by Runner's World as "the...

They are Trying to Break Your Heart

David Savill

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In 1994, Marko Novak's world is torn apart by the death of his best friend. Kemal Lekic, a young...

47 Meters Down (2017)

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On the rebound after a devastating break-up, Lisa (Mandy Moore) is ready for adventure while on...

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Building the Titanic

Rod Green

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Conceived in 1907, the "Titanic" was two years in design and 37 months in construction at the great...

Justin Young recommended track I Couldn't Say It to Your Face by Arthur Russell in Love Is Overtaking Me by Arthur Russell in Music (curated)

Love Is Overtaking Me by Arthur Russell

2008 | Rock

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I Couldn't Say It to Your Face by Arthur Russell

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"The first time I heard this was in 2012. I remember we were driving down the Great Ocean Road in Australia, the sun was out and hearing this, it was such an amazing song. And subsequently learning what it was about, or so the story goes, I don’t know whether it’s true or not but it’s an affecting story, which is the line ‘I couldn’t say it to your face, but I won’t be around anymore’ is about him either telling a lover or a friend that he’s HIV Positive and that his days are numbered. “Aside from it being an amazing song, I always think as a lyricist you want to be having conversations that you can’t have, that you’re too scared to have. If you’re making yourself uncomfortable then you’re doing something right, because there’s an incredible catharsis that comes with that. It really puts my issues into perspective, it is all relative, but it’s an amazing song and I think to be that honest and to be that authentic is an amazing thing and that’s when I always connect to music, when it’s doing that. “In the last few years Arthur Russell has had a real resurgence and that interest in him has snowballed. He had a million clubby projects and there’s a lot of his stuff that I don’t connect with, but the more direct, vulnerable stuff I really like. There’s the Love Is Overtaking Me compilation, it feels like a ‘Best of"

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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Open Water (2003) in Movies

Sep 19, 2020

Open Water (2003)

2003 | Horror

5.3

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Admirable for what it had to work with, and I guess it gets points for being one of the most realistic shark movies out there - but why the hell did this terrify everyone back in the day lmfao. It amounts to a somehow pointedly slow 81 minutes (less after credits) of a couple bickering at sea while... like, occasionally seeing a jellyfish or maybe half a second of a shark from far away. This actually works better as an (intentional) comedy than a horror film, and the beginning of this feels like a weird ass porno, too - complete with millimeters away from couples full-frontal nudity in a dingy hotel room. The one thing this has going for it is that they're in *real* ocean water with *real* sharks, and on that front there are some real motherfucker shots in this that made me jump just on principle. There's also just some really terrific footage of various sea + land creatures in this that help add to the realism. When all is said and done I have to give props to that brutally hopeless coda though, Jesus Christ - made my skin crawl and actually made this whole product grow on me a lot more than my initial measure. But it fucks around too much and even though it does what it can decently well, it isn't enough. While I still think it's too unfair of a reaction, I can clearly see why everyone hates this now.