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Watching early episodes of Sesame Street. We must return.
January 1, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Watching early episodes of Sesame Street. We must return.
Had a dream Peter Falk was featured in Puff Daddy’s I’ll Be Missing You
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Had a dream Peter Falk was featured in Puff Daddy’s I’ll Be Missing You
RIP Wings Hauser
March 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
RIP Wings Hauser
I think I need to bring a cleaner book to this conference I’ll be at all week
March 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I think I need to bring a cleaner book to this conference I’ll be at all week
I was already drifting away from meatball action stuff but the first few minutes of Raging Bull in my early teens is when something fully flipped, one of the most profound before and after experiences I’ve had with art
I'm totally going to steal this as an idea for a prompt. I'm wondering about a lot of my peers and followers what turned them into cinephiles. For me, it was working in a theater as a teenager in 1984, and starting to see things I would never have paid for (like AMADEUS and THE COMPANY OF WOLVES).
February 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I was already drifting away from meatball action stuff but the first few minutes of Raging Bull in my early teens is when something fully flipped, one of the most profound before and after experiences I’ve had with art
Good thing I’m (hopefully) graduating this year…
The Cal State University system (23 campuses, 450k students) is becoming “an AI powered university.” Unclear what it means besides license for ChatGPT. Also: WHO WANTS THIS? Most professors are fighting vs AI; now we’re officially endorsing it? #calstate #ai #ChatGPT #university #philsky
February 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Good thing I’m (hopefully) graduating this year…
It’s funny that doge ended up being the most socially and politically destructive meme
February 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It’s funny that doge ended up being the most socially and politically destructive meme
Using the security camera we bought after the white anime YouTuber hopped our very difficult to hop back fence in a panicked drug-fueled quest to who knows where to spy on our new neighbor’s extremely corny looking short film shoot
February 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Using the security camera we bought after the white anime YouTuber hopped our very difficult to hop back fence in a panicked drug-fueled quest to who knows where to spy on our new neighbor’s extremely corny looking short film shoot
The Brutalist is very good. Flawed but hardly as derivative or try-hard as the negative reviews claim. And it’s not all that ambiguous about its criticism of Zionism. Also, dedicated to Scott Walker.
January 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The Brutalist is very good. Flawed but hardly as derivative or try-hard as the negative reviews claim. And it’s not all that ambiguous about its criticism of Zionism. Also, dedicated to Scott Walker.
Manifesting a complete collection of Barry Malzberg’s (as Mike Barry) 14 book Lone Wolf series. Or at least a good copy of Revelations that isn’t $100+. Maybe a handful of his pornos too.
January 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Manifesting a complete collection of Barry Malzberg’s (as Mike Barry) 14 book Lone Wolf series. Or at least a good copy of Revelations that isn’t $100+. Maybe a handful of his pornos too.
Trumps back in office and in less than a week I’m listening to NPR again. This is concerning.
January 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Trumps back in office and in less than a week I’m listening to NPR again. This is concerning.
I’ve become a reading a book about the Third Reich and thinking everything happening in the U.S. right now actually does line up pretty well with Germany in the ‘30s guy
January 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I’ve become a reading a book about the Third Reich and thinking everything happening in the U.S. right now actually does line up pretty well with Germany in the ‘30s guy
I’m not sure what my first Lynch movie was, probably Blue Velvet, but Eraserhead was the first movie I ever downloaded (in 2002?). Took several days. Horrible quality, looked awful. Still an incredibly formative experience.
January 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I’m not sure what my first Lynch movie was, probably Blue Velvet, but Eraserhead was the first movie I ever downloaded (in 2002?). Took several days. Horrible quality, looked awful. Still an incredibly formative experience.
Damn. What can you even say? It seemed clear The Return was the end of his film career, but what an end! What a career! One of the great American artists.
David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78
Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.
variety.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Damn. What can you even say? It seemed clear The Return was the end of his film career, but what an end! What a career! One of the great American artists.
The perfect adaptation of the Odyssey already exists. 1997’s made for TV Odyssey, starring Armand Assante, written and directed by the screenwriter of Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev and Ivan’s Childhood
Christopher Nolan’s next film is an adaption of ‘THE ODYSSEY’
• Described as a mythic action epic that follows the tale of Odysseus & his 10-year journey home after the Trojan War
• Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon, Lupita Nyong’o and Robert Pattinson
• Described as a mythic action epic that follows the tale of Odysseus & his 10-year journey home after the Trojan War
• Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon, Lupita Nyong’o and Robert Pattinson
December 24, 2024 at 2:38 AM
The perfect adaptation of the Odyssey already exists. 1997’s made for TV Odyssey, starring Armand Assante, written and directed by the screenwriter of Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev and Ivan’s Childhood
Deeply moved by all the anguished and angry screaming and flailing in Andy Milligan’s Seeds
December 20, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Deeply moved by all the anguished and angry screaming and flailing in Andy Milligan’s Seeds
This stuff is incredibly depressing. I’m not good at having dreams or making big plans so I more or less dropped whatever ideas I might’ve had about steering my career towards film library/archive work early in my transition to the library world but it’d be nice if it even felt like a possibility.
Here's a statement from the Executive Committe of FIAF (the International Federation of Film Archives) concerning the recent dismissal of eight senior employees from the Academy Film Archive. Spoiler alert: they are not in favor of it.
www.fiafnet.org/pages/Commun...
www.fiafnet.org/pages/Commun...
International Federation of Film Archives
The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing of films both as art and as historical documents
www.fiafnet.org
December 17, 2024 at 7:56 PM
This stuff is incredibly depressing. I’m not good at having dreams or making big plans so I more or less dropped whatever ideas I might’ve had about steering my career towards film library/archive work early in my transition to the library world but it’d be nice if it even felt like a possibility.
Only about halfway through, and it’s not central to the book, but this pretty convincingly frames Milligan as a scuzzier, more misanthropic American Fassbinder
December 13, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Only about halfway through, and it’s not central to the book, but this pretty convincingly frames Milligan as a scuzzier, more misanthropic American Fassbinder
A new New Yorker reminded me I wanted to read this. I couldn’t remember why and realized it’s sort of about parenting. Now, I get to have real Ideas about this kind of stuff…
The Philosopher L. A. Paul Wants Us to Think About Our Selves
To whom should we have allegiance—the version of ourself making choices, or the version of ourself who will be affected by them?
www.newyorker.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:58 PM
A new New Yorker reminded me I wanted to read this. I couldn’t remember why and realized it’s sort of about parenting. Now, I get to have real Ideas about this kind of stuff…
Syberberg reining in his obituary for Fassbinder after getting yelled at by his wife
December 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Syberberg reining in his obituary for Fassbinder after getting yelled at by his wife
Reading grocery store discount flyers every week for about a year was great practice for reading out loud to my daughter
December 5, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Reading grocery store discount flyers every week for about a year was great practice for reading out loud to my daughter