![]() What’s interesting to me about Birdemic, though, is what it lacks. It had birds! Stilted dialogue, terrible effects, awkward sex scenes, these are all par for the course. After all, it had all the ingredients I look for in these kinds of movies. Teddy and I had high hopes for Birdemic (Yes, Teddy now gets top billing in these reviews). That’s part of the fun of the whole thing. This pursuit has brought us no shortage of fool’s gold.īirdemic: Shock and Terror, written and directed by James Nguyen and released in 2010, is one such hunk of rock that’s been offered up as raw ore, the stuff “good bad movies” are made of: Yes, you will have to work for it, but there’s something valuable, something interesting in there, if you can sieve it out. What I’m more certain of, however, is that its overrepresentation in the “good bad movie” genre has sent many cinephiles on a treasure hunt for precious metals of similar value. For many, it’s simply a funny, silly movie to play in college. I can’t know for sure if it’s the quest for the sublime in a less alloyed form that draws others to The Room. Wiseau is just untalented, which is fine. The Room is a movie made by a believer, by a man on fire, no less on fire than Michelangelo or Emily Dickinson or Prince or Pasolini or Ella Fitzgerald or the Dril Twitter account or any number of storied artists who’ve stolen from the light of Olympus and brought it back down to earth in the palms of their bare hands to share with us mortals. It topples over, falls down a flight of stairs, and breaks both its legs as it does so, yes, but it reaches nonetheless: at themes of infidelity and reckless passion. Beyond the ironic fandom and the cult classic status lies an incredibly earnest work reaching for the sublime. Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, to cite a prominent example, has elicited the interest of millions as precisely this sort of curio. Cultivating an appreciation for bad art brings us into finer attunement with appreciation for art in general. Such slapdash projects, lacking the precision and elegance that mastery over craft provides, offer a raw, visceral glimpse at the smoldering Promethean flame at the center of man’s works. This fact is what draws me to awful films in the first place. I should read documentation more.Within each human creative endeavor both large and small exists at least a flickering ember of the divine. Predawn nearly made it as it’s more customisable, but an option to make that weird peach colour go away would be lovely. But there are no options to turn off those sidebar file icons, the tabs take up too much space and the red and white highlight colours are too in-your-face. And arrows instead of folder icons in the sidebar…īrogrammer sounds awful but is actually quite a nice setup. And the option to turn sidebar icons off. I still really like Ayu, I just want a grey variant. No old-Chrome style sloping tabs – they always felt out of place on Chrome, never mind being aped by other apps.Control over the sidebar spacing, font size and ideally the font itself. ![]() Arrows ( preferably chevrons) instead of folder icons to represent folders.Icons in the sidebar/file-tree make it feel too busy, so if the theme uses these I want to be able to turn them off.A dark grey background without much in the way of colour – I want it to feel like my other Dark Mode apps on macOS.Like Goldilocks, I’m a bit of a fuss-pot, so aside from italics support, there are a few things I want from a theme: But since macOS Mojave landed with Dark Mode, that blue tinge of Ayu hasn’t felt just right. I’ve used One Dark theme, Spacegrey and Spaceblack, but a few years ago I settled on Ayu Mirage. The rest of the user interface (sidebar, status bar, tabs, etc.) is covered by a theme. Sublime Text is still my text editor of choice and the colour scheme only affects the main code editor window. Colour scheme does not necessarily equal theme They all look great, but Spectrum feels most in keeping with the rest of macOS so it’s my favourite. Monokai Pro takes Monokai and adds italics and a bunch of different colour filters: Monokai is the default font on Sublime Text and was everywhere back in 2011, when it seemed like the whole world moved to Sublime. ![]() I tried a whole bunch and the colour scheme I landed on was one that felt a bit nostalgic: Monokai Pro. So the hunt was on to find a colour scheme that felt comfortable and also supported italics. ![]() ![]() I’ve recently started using Operator Mono as my coding font and was frustrated to learn that I couldn’t use it with any old colour scheme – it has to be one that supports italics. ![]()
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