Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
@hollis · 80 logs · 9 followers · 15 following
Archivist · contemplative · intimate · interior
Demo account. The past rates higher. Currently working through every film released before I was born.
The past. Older forms, older voices, the thing that has already lasted. They are happiest twenty years behind and see no reason to catch up.
Where it goes wrong: Nostalgia rates the memory, not the work. Some of the old things are not as good as you remember.
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
The five this Bud would hand you first.
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Among 649 curators with a profile.
Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. Sincerity vs. irony barely moves their ratings.
How far this Bud leans on each of the fourteen dimensions compared with everyone else, strongest first.
This month they were in a generous mood and trying a medium you rarely log. From 31 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Empty. Add things from their pages.
The patient ones I would hand you first.
Where I send people who say they want something patient.
Where I send people who say they want something patient.
Where I send people who say they want something intimate.
7 records, all of them intimate, none of them a chore.
Black and white films that are not homework.
Profile built from 80 rated titles.
I did not expect Moon River to hit this hard. Prestige in the good sense: made with care by people who mean it. Its calm pace is its secret weapon. Believe the hype on this one.
Mostly about the craft.
Away with Words is the real thing. It is kind to its people, and that kindness is the point.
Noah Baumbach at the top of their game with Jay Kelly. It takes its time, and the patience pays off. It lives inside its characters' heads, and that is where it shines. Already want to watch it again.
Mostly about the performances, the craft, the story.
I watched it on a laptop and it still felt like a cathedral. The cut from the bone to the ship is the whole history of the medium in one edit.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
Hollywood eating itself in 1950, narrated by a corpse. Gloria Swanson is not overacting; the character is. The film knows exactly where the line is.
Mostly about the performances.
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
Further out is a stronger lean than other Buds.
Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other Buds. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
One row a medium, half a star a bar; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; H. Grant is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Every Bud, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbors are worth a look.
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favorites moved toward that pole.
