Nanamis-egg

im not joking when i say my family and everyone i know watched more tv and movies when rental stores existed. there was an impetus to seek things out, an impetus to actually watch them because the money had been spent. there was an impetus to get something else you'd heard of if they'd run out of copies of what you wanted. there was much more exposure to things i mightn't have seen otherwise, because they weren't grouped or organised by some terrible predictive and motivated algorithm. they were organised by whichever nerd loved cinema enough to be the full time worker there and choose which movies to stock and which ones to highlight!!! the same nerd could point you in the direction of something you might like based on what you watched and liked, human to fucking human!!!

not to mention that the sociality and FUN of watching the rented movie together with a bag of microwave popcorn far beats mindlessly chucking on whatever slop netflix is shoving down your throat on its recommended page. the joy of it being YOUR turn to pick the weekend/school holidays movies and video games was unparalleled!!!!! come back to me video rental stores i miss you...

revolutionary girl utena (1997)

Making gifs is so much fucking fun

Kate Winslet, 2003

Let's be fat with mama

let's stare lovingly at mama

worthless animal. BEGONE

got me good with this whole email address thing. you make email account as child for one purpose neopets.com and now all this. bait and switch. not nice.

NME: Listen to Fiona Apple’s powerful first song in five years, ‘Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)’

Fiona Apple said in a press statement: “I was a court watcher for over two years. In that time, I took notes on thousands of bond hearings. Time and time again, I listened as people were taken away and put in jail, for no other reason than that they couldn’t afford to buy their way free. It was particularly hard to hear mothers and caretakers get taken away from the people who depend on them.”

“For the past five years, I have been volunteering with the Free Black Mamas DMV bailout, and I have been lucky to be able to witness the stories of women who fought for and won their freedom with the tireless and loving support of the leadership,” she continued. “I hope that this song, and the images shared with me, can help to show what is at stake when someone is kept in pretrial detention. I give this song in friendship and respect to all who have experienced the pain of pretrial detention and to the women of the group’s leadership who have taught me so much and whom I truly love.”

Donations to help those affected by pre-trial detention pay their bail and reunite them with their families can be made here. Additionally, you can find out more about the Free Black Mamas DMV here, and register here to volunteer for court watching to ensure fair rulings.