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d-i-x-i-t · 7 months

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“A good traveler is not intent on arriving.”

- Lao Tzu

#lao tzu #lao tzu quote #life #life quote #travel #traveler #plan #world #cruise #the cruise #timothy levitch #timothy speed levitch

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philhoffman · 1 year

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Unintentionally celebrating the start of the MLB’s spring training with this week’s Monday Philm, Moneyball (2011), dir. Bennett Miller.

One of my favorite parts of this latest round of watching PSH’s work is how I’ve tried seeing semi-related films each week—for example, watching Infamous (2006) before rewatching Capote, or binging the majority of Todd Solondz’s work before watching Happiness again (which, yes, caused me irreparable harm). Today, ahead of this Moneyball rewatch, I finished Bennett Miller’s filmography, which just meant viewing his first film, The Cruise (1998), and his most recent film, Foxcatcher (2014). The Cruise is a documentary about a New York City bus tour guide, Timothy Speed Levitch—I wholeheartedly fell in love with it, one of my favorite documentaries I’ve seen (and full of names I recognize from Phil’s old gang of NYU/NYSSSA friends!). Foxcatcher is more complicated but I think it’ll grow on me.

Miller can make a damn good movie and, even more impressive, he can sure make a good biopic. Maybe’s he’s gotten lucky with his subjects or picking them is just another one of his talents, but Truman Capote, Harper Lee, Levitch, Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s, the du Ponts and Schultzes—absolutely fascinating subjects. The landscapes of 1950s Kansas, of New York City shot on digital in black-and-white, of Foxcatcher Farm, of America’s pristine and sacred baseball stadiums are equally intriguing.

I’ve heard criticism of all of his films that basically boils down to “they’re slow and boring.” I can see where that comes from but I don’t agree at all. I don’t care about wrestling at all and I’m not a huge baseball fan but he has me on the edge of my seat. His films linger, they are quiet, not flashy at all—not even Capote—but they’re gripping. Overcast skies, misfits, ambition, character-driven stories. Rather than a technical or visual trademark, Miller’s films are more tied together thematically. I’m really looking forward to whatever he does next, I hope it’s something soon.

All of this and I’ve barely mentioned our raison d’être, our tzadik nistar! Phil as fat Art Howe, my beloved. I don’t have too much new to say about Moneyball this time around, it’s just a great film and fun to watch and I enjoy it more every time. I know the real Art Howe and some fans critiqued his characterization in the film, his role and how he was written as the quasi-villain (and the fact that Phil was a bigger guy) BUT they should be so lucky to see PSH being grumpy and brooding in that uniform. Sexiest baseball player ever! A win’s a win!

(Also worth noting that I’ve never seen any negative reviews of Phil’s performance itself, just the way the character is written. I think even the real Howe conceded that. And the heat is mostly from baseball people who are shocked an appalled when biopics aren’t 100% true to life. C’mon folks live a little!)

#*louder than everyone else* hiiiii art howe #seriously I read these reviews about his character and it's like. why are you complaining when his belly is right there....#monday philm #moneyball #philip seymour hoffman #psh #*#ride or die for phil and his big bald head #the deleted scene where he is half undressed and putting on his pants and sitting on that couch are worth the price of the DVD

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adultswim2021 · 1 year

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Xavier: Renegade Angel #8: “Escape from Squatopian Freedom” | December 24, 2007 - 12:00AM | S01E08

What was hotter than Burning Man in 2007? Saul, Lucy, and now Xavier have all had Burning Man style fun. Who will be next? Did I forget anyone? Gosh, I hope not.

Xavier meets a punk juggler named Puggler, who brings him ‘round to his home Squatopia; a swath of town taken over by anarchist squatters. Puggler ganks Xavier’s significant crystal, which we learn from a flashback was given to him by his father before his untimely passing at the hands of a mysterious arsonist. It’s really not that mysterious; teenage Xavier is able to get the answer from his charred pop when he asks dad who set the fire that killed him. “Our son” dad chokes out before losing his head (literally). Xavier mistakes this word for “arson”. Like usual, Xavier is oblivious to the answer even when it’s spoonfed to him. I believe we see Xavier start the fire in a set of flashbacks in the first episode, lest you think this is some kind of absurd misdirect.

Puggler is proudly “too unique to pay rent”, but his pal ‘Tude is getting cabin fever from all the freedom he’s experiencing. He needs Xavier to break him out, even though he’s free to leave. If he were to leave, he would be making a choice, and he just can’t take that heat. Xavier agrees to help, but only if ‘Tude agrees to take him to Burning Man, where Puggler ran off with his crystal. But first, Xavier needs to make like the other squatters and “sell his seed”. Xavier comes up with other unpleasant euphemisms, such as “hawk my logie” (very funny and hella rude). The resulting jack sesh births one of the most disgusting creations to ever be on Adult Swim; a gigantic single sperm that acts like a friendly dog. I recall multiple friends of mine being so nauseated by this gag that I wouldn’t be surprised if they never revisited the episode because of it. I think he’s cute.

They dig their way through the original underground railroad and find an actual Civil War era slave. The addition of the slave is obviously meant to juxtapose an anarchists’ idea of euphemistic modern “slavery” with what slavery actually was. This episode has a civil war era slave, a sperm dog, and Speed Levitch, making his triumphant return to Adult Swim since being either Stroker or Hoop, I forget which. This episode basically has everything.

This one ends with a lotta people getting burnt to a crisp thanks to Xavier’s sperm dog, whom he considers a son. When emergency responders on the scene wonder out loud of it was “arson”, Xavier replies “no, it was MY son”. Man, what a great joke. This is a good one, Speed Levitch’s participation notwithstanding.

MAIL BAG

tactical reasons? boo hoo hoo hoo

Hey, come on

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #xavier: renegade angel

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kinderfunk · 2 years

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"Civilization is the amputation of everything that ever happened to us"

-timothy speed levitch / "The Cruise"

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banehood · 2 months

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Februallage Day 12: Remember

For the folks who remember what they're made of.

Before you drift off, don't forget. Which is to say, remember. Because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting. - Timothy "Speed" Levitch, 'Waking Life'

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#banehood #magazine collage #analog collage #collage community #februllage #we are all made of stars #elephants memory #waking life #Youtube

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amoebaboots · 3 months

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watching people like John Wilson and Timothy “Speed” Levitch makes me want to be more inquisitive about the world and find new and unique ways to draw meaning from monotonous aspects of life.

Idk how to translate that into my art because I feel like being able to discuss these ideas are more suitable for film :(

#john wilson #timothy levitch

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rosemarygeorgiaflutur · 1 year

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Review: Bennett Miller's "The Cruise" (1998)

The title of The Cruise (1998) has a twofold meaning. It alludes to the sightseeing tours Timothy “Speed” Levitch, the film’s central subject, gives on New York City’s double-decker buses, tours that garnered a cult following in the late ‘90s. It’s also a reference to Levitch’s self-created doctrine: to “cruise” is to live nomadically, loyal to the present moment, and in dissent of the thraldom of conformity.

Directed by Bennett Miller and skillfully edited by Michael Levine, The Cruise is a strong piece of nonfiction portraiture, a depiction of a man in a wearing search for meaning. Footage was filmed twice—the first summer with a crew, the second, in the wake of DV cameras advent, just Miller—but only the second iteration was used, where Levitch, experiencing “self-consciousness fatigue”, let his performative guard down. The result is an honest portrayal of common artistic struggle, oscillating from scenes of Levitch’s brilliant, trenchant monologues in front of tourists or the camera, to others that are all too familiar: banal and bureaucratic encounters that curb the potential of Levitch’s existence. He refers to this as the “anti-cruise”, and the film offers examples: meagre pay and hours at work, his conservative family’s expectations, and a brief spell of incarceration.

“Anti-cruise” is essentially anti-change, whereas to “cruise” is to believe in and strive for a better world. He knows that cruising entails failing repeatedly, but it also means living a life motivated by adventure and love. Levitch is aware, for instance, that the pursuit of individuality, at the crux of cruising, is a delusion, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth the effort. “Biologically, we have the same infrastructure as plants,” he says. “[But] I want to be the flower that smells most profusely, that veers most drastically towards the sunlight.”

Review of Bennett Miller's film "The Cruise" (1998) for In The Mood magazine, 2022

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baileye · 1 year

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“If I have an essential goal on the Cruise right now, I think that the simplest goal is perhaps to be able to exhibit that I am thrilled to be alive and to be still respected.

The more soulful of us, I suppose the Buddhist or whatever label you want to put on those experiencing their further individuality, might say like, "Look, why should you care about respect from others? I mean, just the thrill of being alive is your own business. You can do that alone in your living room." But that’s not what the Cruise is for me. The Cruise is about the searchings for everything worthwhile in existence. It is about walking into the bar and lusting after all the worthwhile possibilities of the world. It is about flesh. It is about waves undulating. And it is about exhibitionism. You know, I want to look at the flower and appreciate the beauty of a flower, for instance. Somebody else might say, "You can look at the flower and become the flower. Isn’t that even better?" But then I further would love it on the Cruise, if I could look at the flower, appreciate the beauty of the flower, and then have the flower appreciate the beauty of me.”

Timothy “Speed” Levitch

#timothy levitch #the cruise

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mitchbeck · 2 years

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CANTLON: HARTFORD WOLF PACK DROP FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON

By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings CHARLOTTE, NC - In his first AHL game, Anton Levtchi scored two goals, with the second coming 35 seconds into overtime to lead the Charlotte Checkers to a 4-3 OT win over the visiting Hartford Wolf Pack in the first game of the 2022-23 season. Levtchi came motoring off the left wing side, cut to the middle of the ice and slid the puck past a poke-check attempt of the Wolf Pack's new starter, Louie Domingue. Levtchi then flipped a backhander past Domingue to end the season opener. Domingue made 40 saves for the Pack in a sterling effort and was the primary reason the game went to the extra session. Henry Bowlby had five quality chances, all denied by Domingue with ten seconds left in regulation and Lucas Carlsson with under a minute left from the left point. Another on Gerry Mayhew as they were outshot by a two-to-one margin of 44-22. Chris Tierney was robbed on the right wing with an open cage as Domingue slid over left to right with 8:08 left. He would tally their third goal two minutes to tie the score. Julien Gauthier had given the Pack the lead at 8:07 with the night's best goal. He took a pass from newcomer Turner Elson, turned on the left wing speed, and got inside position on ex-Pack Anthony Bitetto. He went backhand-to-forehand and put it past ex-Pack/Sound Tiger, J.F. Berube. Alexi Heponiem had five shots in the game. He was stopped after getting the puck off the shinpad of the just-signed Ben Harpur with 5:41 remaining. Harpur drove out on Tierney and took away the bottom of the net. His shot went high and over the Wolf Pack cage. Just before, Tim Gettinger saw his wraparound attempt come up empty. Lauri Pajuniemi had given the Pack the lead in the second period. Pajuniemi took a cross-ice feed on his off-wing from Matt Robertson and wired one past Berube at 3:42 of the second period. Levitch was on the power play two minutes earlier in the lower right-wing circle and scored his first. Heponiemi, who also had five shots in the game, opened the scoring at 4:38 of the first. He is from the same hometown as Pajuniemi. Will Cullye, on the strength of Jonny Brodzinski slipping thru and making it an odd-man rush, dished ot back and saw Cullye, who buried the backhand pass at 13:52. The duo had a strong game as Brodzinski shuffled another lead pass to Cullye, who made a wonderful attempt with just one hand on his stick. NOTES: Cullye led the Pack with four shots. Carter Sandlak, the son of ex-Hartford Whaler, Jim Sandlak, was one of the referees. One of the linesmen was from the female trainee group, Kirsten Welsh. Making his debut as the Checkers assistant coach was ex-Pack Bobby Sanguinetti. Signed to his AHL deal by San Jose was an ex-Pack defenseman, Patrick Sieloff. Ex-CT Whale Michael Del Zotto and former Yale Bulldog Alex Lyon were assigned to Charlotte and scratched. Adam Samuelsson, youngest son of Whaler great, former Wolf Pack assistant coach, ex-Avon Old Farms assistant, and ex-Ranger Ulf Samuelsson on the eve of ECHL training camp, goes from Idaho Steelheads to the Tulsa (OK) Oilers. HARTFORD WOLF PACK HOME Read the full article

#ADA #AdamSamuelsson #AHL #AnthonyBitetto #AvonOldFarms #CharlotteCheckers #CHL #ChrisTierney #CTWhale #ECHL #HartfordWolfPack #IdahoSteelheads #JonnyBrodzinski #JulienGauthier #MichaelDelZotto #PatrickSieloff #TimGettinger #UlfSamuelsson #Yale

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noosphe-re · 3 years

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I am cruising, currently, right now! I am cruising because I have dedicated myself to all that is creative and destructive in my life right now, and I am equally in love with every aspect of my life, and all the ingredients that have caused me turmoil and all the ingredients that have caused me glory. I am the living, whispered warning in the Roman general's ear, 'Glory is fleeting', and in that verb - that active verb 'fleeting' - there I live, there I reside, in this moment. I have dedicated myself to the idiom, 'I don't know.' And I am in love with the frantic chaos of this limitless universe.

Timothy 'Speed' Levitch, The Cruise (1998)

#quote #Timothy Speed Levitch #Timothy Levitch #Speed Levitch #Levitch #film #movie #universe #chaos

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d-i-x-i-t · 7 months

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That's life. A circle, wrought with destinations. - Timothy ‘Speed’ Levitch

#timothy 'speed' levitch #quote #life #circle #destination

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jennpelly · 4 years

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“I’m learning slowly in my cruising career that you cannot expect people to transform in an afternoon. They are not going to rewrite their souls and redo every day that they’ve lived thus far before they come on to the double decker bus. And yet I expect that. I expect the total transformation of their life, the entire rewrite of their soul, I am fighting minute-to-minute every moment that they’re on the bus for every day they’ve lived thus far to seem as an abstract wreckage that might have happened but is probably a delusion. And that this is the first real day of their lives.”

#Speed Levitch

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eyeamthat · 6 years

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I would say that life understood is life lived. But the paradoxes bug me, and I can learn to love and make love to the paradoxes that bug me. And on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.

Speed Levitch (Waking Life)