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This is not the point but Kris Knoblauch is kinda—oh they’re down 0-5 okay

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I used to but dont anymore

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“My cottage is a gem of gems - in the eyes of its owner. You see, I’ve almost made it, from the roots up. It is as ugly as my sins, bleak, angular, small, unstable: very like its creator. Yet I love it.” - T.E. Lawrence’s handwriting, in a letter about his cottage Clouds Hill.

jannik sinner (nitto atp finals, 2024) // jannik sinner (roland garros, 2025)

📸: Giamperi Sposito, Marco Bertorello, Julian Finney 

Lawrence of Arabia holds this absolutely fascinating position of being made by an Englishman who had grown up during WW1 and seen Britain go through WW2 and then decolonization and whose movies are so closely interwined with the direction Britain was heading as an Empire: from his propaganda-film In Which We Serve during WW2 to the dismantling of British military ideology and philosophy in Kwai in 1957, and then every movie for the rest of his career (except Zhivago, which is still an illuminating movie wrt his thoughts on Empire, the birth of ideology, authoritarinism, etc) is deeply concerned with Britain as a nation and doesn't shy away from the Colonial and Imperial legacy that continued to colour British society even post-decolonization. Lawrence is, on the one hand, one of the few British films about WW1 that doesn't center on the domestic experience of the war or on trench warfare on the West Front (both of which obscures the Imperialist and globalized reality of WW1 and excludes colonized peoples from narratives about the war) but on the other the main character is very much a white, English man in an archetypical White Saviour narrative but on the other hand again it is a deconstruction of the White Saviour story; Lawrence fails at his primary ambitions and does not get to "get his and go home" as Auda puts it, and leaves Arabia exceedingly traumatized, unsecure, insecure, and disillusioned: with Imperialism, with his romanticized notions of Arabia and the Bedouin, and with himself. Created by a visionary director who became almost as much as a "desert-loving English" as Lawrence himself and whom also, as can be seen from his movies, is disillusioned with Britain's Imperial past, present, and future while still being firmly in love with colonial areas (Arabia, India) that he tries to engage with and represent "authentically" while still coming from the vantage-point of a white Englishman whose whole life has been spent in a colonialist country grappling with it's territories and identity once bereft of them.

Pope Leo I know you’ve blessed tennis players before (see Jannik Sinner Casper Ruud Rome Masters quarterfinal for more info) so imma need you to come out against elder abuse sometime before Friday. Can you do that please? Just kinda stand on the balcony of St. Peter’s and say it’s important to be nice to older individuals. Thank you

there's something about deeming women simply biologically incapable of playing five sets, as they used to be deemed biologically incapable of running marathons, before giving them a chance to actually play five sets in the first place, and then using five set tennis — something only men have been given the opportunity to partake in and test themselves in and practice and train for — as the benchmark for what qualifies as good, chatrier night session worthy tennis.

The cure to anxiety is completing all the tasks you have to finish for the day early and doing them phenomenally and being physically perfect and on everyone’s good side preferably even their favorite.

My friend on Nathan Fielder

T.E. Lawrence’s (Peter O’Toole) White desert outfit & tan cape…  Lawrence Of Arabia (1962).. Costume by Phyllis Dalton..

Alec guiness’s hatred of star wars makes so much sense when you remember lawrence of arabia because imagine you make one of the greatest films of all times. No one even cares you were in brownface for it. Then years later youre taken back to the desert. But now youre in a bath robe saying things like “darth vader” and “lightsaber” hanging out with some kind of gay robot. He probably thought his career was over lmfaoooo

U2 are good regardless of what people say. If you look me in the eyes and say War is a bad album you either haven’t listened to it or are lying

lawrence of arabia x prince johnny by st. vincent

is this anything?? this is like my third time making an edit lol 🙃

when you watch the rest of Lawrence of Arabia after intermission

sorry but i physically CANT be friends with a girl whose whole life revolves around men/male attention. like PLEASE talk abt something else ho 😭

Girl what do you MEAN?

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) | dir. David Lean

exactlyyyy

Illusions can be very powerful. Particularly when they take this form.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) | dir. David Lean

OPPENHEIMER (2023) | dir. Christopher Nolan

Watched this movie two days ago and I’m utterly obsessed.

Thinking about David Lean being the voice of the motorcyclist who says “Who are you? Who are you?” in Lawrence of Arabia. That is THE thesis statement of the film, and we literally hear it from its director. It adds a metatextual layer as well. No one, not, even the director, can nail down who exactly he is.

Duane Michals photographed The Police during the album cover photo sessions for 'Synchronicity', in 1983.

We’re so back

“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.”

— Kim Culbertson

Tried my best

I feel like these pictures are absolutely memable, the issue is my creativity at this very moment is just - school bleh so yeah

Obsessed with this song right now. It captures such a specific feeling, but I don’t know the name for it. Can’t believe this beautiful, fantastic album turns 45 this year.