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I Didn’t Have a Clue

1 week ago | splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings

Harold Budd: My expectation is exactly what happened: It was total chaos, total confusion. No one knew anything, including me. I didn’t have a clue. Yaa Gyasi: I’m hunkered down in Brooklyn and trying to make sense of what the next few months will look like. Budd: It wasn’t an alien thought. That was the start of a change.
Wonder Women: the Sexy Connection Between Jewish and Black Irish Women

1 week ago | splicetoday.com | Mark Judge

Accordingto a 2013 DNA test, scientists believe that some Irish people may have originally come from the Middle East. “The ancestors of the Stone Age farmers [in Ireland] began their journey in the Bible lands,” reads an article about the findings. “They brought with them cattle, cereals, ceramics and a tendency to black hair and brown eyes.” It finally makes sense. For years people have tried to figure out the origin of the “Black Irish,” Celtic people with dark hair and eyes.
Why Is Fellow Splice Today Contributor Kenneth Silber Spreading Falsehoods About Me?

1 week ago | splicetoday.com | Chris Beck

On April 15, Kenneth Silber wrote an essay for Splice Today headlined “What I Got Right And Wrong,” which was intended to be a reckoning of how the views he's voiced have held up over time.
Roosevelt’s South Side

1 week ago | splicetoday.com | Kevin Walsh

Located in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, two-mile long Roosevelt Island since 1971 has been the home of a small town of about 8300 people. Native-Americans called the island Minnehanak ("Long Island"), and the Dutch called it Varkens.
Rider of the Sky

1 week ago | splicetoday.com | Liam Gaughan

Oliver Stone's The Doors has aged well since 1991; Val Kilmer has been vindicated. The late Val Kilmer was unlike any other male heartthrob to emerge from the post-”Brat Pack” era, as he successfully made strange, transgressive performative choices within populist material.
Non-Violence and Possible Futures

1 week ago | splicetoday.com | Crispin Sartwell

As a teenager in the 1970s, at the tail end of the 60s liberation movements, I regarded myself as a revolutionary and capable of violence in the service of social transformation. In particular, I called myself a “militant ecologist” and destroyed some construction equipment that was tearing up the woods near my house to put in some houses. A small cohort of the like-minded and I made threats toward my school (Alice Deal Junior High in DC), demanding an end to compulsory attendance and grading.
Brian De Palma’s Casualties of War is Terrible

1 week ago | splicetoday.com | Noah Berlatsky

Brian De Palma is a playful, campy filmmaker; his best work involves him shifting tropes around like a magician with a shell game, making it impossible to guess where the plot, or the characters, or reality is going to end up. The joy of his movies—when they are a joy—is in the moviemaking and in the manipulation. His films are often serious and they can be heartfelt, but they aren’t sincere.
Kevin Smith Behind Real Evil

1 week ago | splicetoday.com | Liam Gaughan

Dogma’s humor may belong in 1999, but its insights are modern. Even if 2025 has been off to a shaky start at the domestic box office, there has been an unusual level of interest in revival screenings. Whether nostalgia or passion takes credit, the cinematic re-releases of films such as Pride & Prejudice, Princess Mononoke, The Goonies, and Happy Gilmore have proven that familiarity isn’t a detriment. Will audiences turn out to see a film that initially wasn’t a major success?
The Lost Prophet

2 weeks ago | splicetoday.com | Liam Gaughan

Despite backlash against Emilia Pérez, director Jacques Audiard proved he’s one of cinema’s modern giants with his crime epic A Prophet. One of the consequences of award season is that spotlighted directors are given only a brief window of opportunity for audiences of non-cinephiles. This is beneficial to a filmmaker like Bong Joon-ho, whose Best Picture-winning Parasite was a crossover hit that enticed Americans with the possibilities of South Korean cinema.
You Can’t Break Anything in a City

2 weeks ago | splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings

Brian Eno: All that formula and repetition is like a great big vehicle for carrying the moment of difference — the tiny point where something happens that didn’t happen before. Elizabeth Becker: The unpredictability has never frustrated me. Eno: I know. I tend to be nervous about everything. Becker: You put your intention onto the page, just like you put your intention out into the universe, but you cannot control the results. Eno: Oh, that’s interesting.