The New Amerikan Gothic: Didn't Pence have a bloody eye recently too? What the fuck

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BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

a friend of mine thought a lot of this recalled edward hopper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hopper

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BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

^ "they live" alien

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BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

laibach with their finger on the pulse as always

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BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

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BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

Taintrunner posted:

what the gently caress

i haven't been watching T.V.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2020 21:57

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

seeing some of the posts... they're a bit too on the nose. you gotta think more subtle, like... themes of loss and decay with some curse under the surface that's animating events. there's wistful nostalgia and fantastic-grotesque elements that are both alluring and repelling at the same time. it's the noise of the void and the emptiness...

it's not just spooky victorian houses, that became a gothic theme because victorianism had become associated with the horror of world war I. a shopping mall from the 1990s could be gothic. i think it emerges when things get out of sequence or there has been a rupture in the space-time continuum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOlffr73fuM&t=206s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ygxhu_3sII

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# ¿ Aug 24, 2020 00:48

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

more this:

Jewel Repetition posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSb5rWR_IWA

# ¿ Aug 24, 2020 01:12

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

The Saucer Hovers posted:

is this it coach?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaImyktMkU4

there we go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqn9fXzYWoo

# ¿ Aug 24, 2020 08:15

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

gh0stpinballa posted:

my take as an outsider who noticed this poo poo along with my american friends, we arrived at it independently is what i'm saying, over the last couple months:

it is the Uncanny and the Morbid bleeding through the thin fabric of business-as-usual bombast and PR the amerikan powers-that-be are trying to stretch over what is obviously a dying society. it thus creates striking visual images that are unsettling and dreamlike in how vividly they portray a Truth about the death throes of the imperial core that is difficult to articulate in words. therefore particular images and video footage become the stand in for this sense of dread and doom that is difficult to articulate in words. it is not lynchian, though it shares many characteristics with the work of david lynch; but where he posits a secret, grotesque underbelly to an amerikan society that is more or less functional, the new amerikan gothic posits something much more bleak and indeed apocalyptic, for there is no escape here, nobody gets out of this alive, and only the grave awaits.

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