Perfect skin doesn’t matter brand names don’t matter grind culture doesn’t matter all that’s important is having a hobby you love and learning to cook vegetables in tasty ways
thought about this again. kind of amazing how we’re all just chasing ways to duplicate how this scene makes us feel, either in life or in art.
thinking about when mark told the story of how when they were shooting, he said to george, “darth vader has a musical theme, han, leia all have themes, do i have a theme song?” and george going “mark, the main theme is your theme song”
The thing that always comes as a surprise to me, somehow, every time I rewatch this movie, is how much of it is setup. There’s *so much* that happens after Luke joins up with Han Solo, including nearly everything iconic about the movie, that it’s really easy to forget that it opens with a lot of slow-paced establishing scenes, setting up the world and Luke’s life and just letting you wander around in this interesting and visually delightful universe and experience and explore it without feeling like you’re always being hustled off to the next action scene. There are a lot of reasons why the movie took off like it did, but I really feel like part of its magic and part of why it’s still fun to watch after all these years (even after we know the story and all the character beats) is because of that “tourist in a foreign land” experience that you get from the first half of it.
This time of year is always very nostalgic for me bc I used to be the Token Gentile at an office and every few months there’d be a Jewish holiday and my friend would be like “Hey, I need you to do Gentile things for us” and I’d be like hell yes dude. Gentile Things often meant I’d sign things in exchange for a few dollars on venmo but Pesach was a special time for me because it meant everyone gave me boxes of pasta, cereal, and other baked goods. The first time my friends were like “Hey for reasons we won’t bother getting into we’re going to give you all of our bread” I was like, it is a powerful responsibility but as an Ally I cannot refuse. Best time of the year, frankly
Reminds me of the year I spent in a house with a Muslim housemate, and he ate nothing during the day throughout Ramadan – then of course he would be hungry af and buy a fuckload of food as soon as he got off work in the evening. Around midnight, he’d realize he just couldn’t eat everything he’d bought on his own, and come knock at my door to ask if I felt like having dinner again.
I always felt like having dinner again.
I misread that as ‘Tolkien Gentile’ and felt let-down by the post.
On the contrary, it feels very Tolkien for people with unfamiliar customs to show up and give you a bunch of their food with barely an explanation. Like a reverse of the opening of The Hobbit where the dwarves show up and eat all Bilbo’s seed cake, or something.
