Watching this a second time (and this was my first time watching a movie at a drive in theater), with the benefit of knowing the conclusion, is even more interesting … More Rewatch – at the drive in: Get Out (2017) – Jordan Peele
Luce tackles a lot of interesting and thorny topics. I have to say though, even though I recognize a lot of the white-people tendencies on display with Luce’s parents (like avoiding conflict, pretending like nothing is wrong, and white-savior mentality) it is a bit of a stretch to think they are really so bad at seeing through Luce’s B.S. … More Impressions: Luce (2019) – Julius Onah
Palm Springs asks “what is the meaning of life?” and gives a myriad of answers before settling on something between “you only live once” and “let’s make something out of this while we still can.” … More Impressions: Palm Springs (2020) – Max Barbakow
Have you ever felt like you are going crazy while watching a movie and have to frantically google the plot synopsis to make sure you didn’t hallucinate 2/3rds of what you just saw? … More Impressions: Perfect Blue (1997) – Satoshi Kon
The pandemic has taken a toll on all of us, our students and faculty alike. Much to our dismay however, we learnt that the graduate students are facing a second blow from the SBU administration: this administration just increased the graduate student fee yet again… … More An open letter to Physics and Astronomy faculty at Stony Brook University
The My Morning Jacket at Forest Hills Stadium concert was the very first time I ever intentionally purchased tickets and attended a concert, and it kind of spoiled me because of how good they are live. … More 2017 in Music
Horror is the sense of loss, uncertainty, and fear that comes with tearing down a worldview and working frantically to find and understand the real truth. … More A Theory of Horror
I walked in feeling like I was different and other, and I left knowing that there is still work left for all of us to do to heal that long standing societal and personal damage. … More What I felt at The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum as a white Mississippian
Gibson bends the structure of traditional story telling, the English language, and the reader’s mind, and leaves you wanting more, with two more books in the trilogy waiting to be explored. … More “Neuromancer” by William Gibson
Taken as a whole, Feynman is a veritable popular-philosopher of science. He understood the limits of science so well he was able on multiple occasions to recognize false an self-imposed boundaries, knock them down, and push those fields decades forward in one go. … More “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out” by Richard Feynman
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