Dan Eastman
@danieleastman.bsky.social
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I don't trust anyone who doesn't admit having at some time in his life enjoyed trashy American movies; I don't trust any of the tastes of people who were born with such good taste that they didn't need to find their way through trash. (1969)
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I don't trust anyone who doesn't admit having at some time in his life enjoyed trashy American movies; I don't trust any of the tastes of people who were born with such good taste that they didn't need to find their way through trash. (1969)
Watched Pandora’s Mirror a few weeks back. Wrote this and promptly forgot about it until today.
Pandora’s Mirror
“Be careful, Pandora.
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August 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Watched Pandora’s Mirror a few weeks back. Wrote this and promptly forgot about it until today.
Watched the 1978 film Dracula Sucks this weekend and wrote about it on the Substack.
Dracula Sucks
Notes on the 1978 adult adaptation of the Count
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July 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Watched the 1978 film Dracula Sucks this weekend and wrote about it on the Substack.
Oh boy. I feel like I’m a different person since we recorded this just a few months ago.
Here's Episode 3: "Dan Eastman" where we talk to Dan about his book 'Watertown', second person POV, Thanksgiving, and memes. www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/ep-... (cc: @danieleastman.bsky.social)
Ep. 03: Dan Eastman — Third Person Limited
We were joined by author and poet Dan Eastman for a discussion about confessional poetry, second-person POV, and the best memes. I ask you: should poems mention Facebook? Still waiting on our podcast ...
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July 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Oh boy. I feel like I’m a different person since we recorded this just a few months ago.
Wrote about John Waters and the family unit in Polyester on my Substack.
POLYESTER
Exploring the concept of family in John Waters 1981 film.
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July 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Wrote about John Waters and the family unit in Polyester on my Substack.
I had a professor tell me the em dash looks a lot cleaner than parentheses so I started using them. She was right.
Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
July 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I had a professor tell me the em dash looks a lot cleaner than parentheses so I started using them. She was right.
Some thoughts I had immediately after watching Neon Nights (1981).
Neon Nights
Immediate thoughts on Cecil Howard’s 1981 adult film.
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July 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Some thoughts I had immediately after watching Neon Nights (1981).
I watched Radley Metzger’s 1975 film The Image. This is my initial reaction:
The Image
A brief reflection of Radley Metzger’s 1975 film.
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July 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I watched Radley Metzger’s 1975 film The Image. This is my initial reaction:
If you outlaw porn, only outlaws will have porn.
On almost every front, those who argue that pornography is harmful to society are racking up wins, despite the fact that many of their claims aren't backed up by science. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
The strange bedfellows driving — and winning — the war on porn
Feminists, religious crusaders and “alpha male” influencers have turned the tide in the decades-old battle over adult content.
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June 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If you outlaw porn, only outlaws will have porn.
I was listening to @therialtoreport.bsky.social in my hotel room and accidentally connected to speakers in someone else’s room. Hope they enjoyed the brief moment of porno history.
June 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I was listening to @therialtoreport.bsky.social in my hotel room and accidentally connected to speakers in someone else’s room. Hope they enjoyed the brief moment of porno history.
As part of my ongoing personal project to explore exploitation cinema: Roommates (1981)
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Roommates
My Year of Trash Week 12
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March 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
As part of my ongoing personal project to explore exploitation cinema: Roommates (1981)
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I watched Beyond the Valley of the Dolls for the first time. I feel like this movie could solve so many of the world’s problems.
March 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I watched Beyond the Valley of the Dolls for the first time. I feel like this movie could solve so many of the world’s problems.
NPC? Damn right I’m not playable.
March 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
NPC? Damn right I’m not playable.
In a country run like a business you don’t have to worry about being a person. You’re an asset of the state. That’s freedom you can’t buy!
March 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
In a country run like a business you don’t have to worry about being a person. You’re an asset of the state. That’s freedom you can’t buy!
Let’s apply some reason and logic here. It doesn’t matter if people die if there’s enough money to be made.
March 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Let’s apply some reason and logic here. It doesn’t matter if people die if there’s enough money to be made.
Was talking to someone recently about anti-corporate messaging in Fight Club, American Beauty, Office Space, and The Matrix. Now there’s a weird affinity for big business. Even stranger for a post-2008/post-OWS culture. I guess the boot looks tasty after it’s been on your throat long enough.
Interesting how having a solid economy in the 90s produced a string of anti-corporate films depicting male malaise but that sentiment has largely disappeared from mainstream American masculinity in the decades since. Not that American Beauty is a Marxist masterpiece but we were getting somewhere.
March 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Was talking to someone recently about anti-corporate messaging in Fight Club, American Beauty, Office Space, and The Matrix. Now there’s a weird affinity for big business. Even stranger for a post-2008/post-OWS culture. I guess the boot looks tasty after it’s been on your throat long enough.
Woke up early and vomited some words about John Waters’ Multiple Maniacs.
Multiple Maniacs
My Year of Trash Week Ten
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March 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Woke up early and vomited some words about John Waters’ Multiple Maniacs.
Very disappointing movie this week. Biker revenge flick Bury Me An Angel promises a lot and fulfills nothing.
Bury Me An Angel
My Year of Trash Week 9
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February 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Very disappointing movie this week. Biker revenge flick Bury Me An Angel promises a lot and fulfills nothing.
It’s so weird how supporting LGBT people automatically causes middle-aged white guys on heart pills to start sweating and screaming about dicks and public anal sex.
February 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
It’s so weird how supporting LGBT people automatically causes middle-aged white guys on heart pills to start sweating and screaming about dicks and public anal sex.
As part of my yearlong project where I write about genre movies continues, I wrote about 1985 porno Blue Ice. It’s a neo-noir about a group of Nazis trying to take over the world by sexually controlling women. Crazy, right?
Blue Ice
My Year of Trash Week 8: Part 2
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February 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
As part of my yearlong project where I write about genre movies continues, I wrote about 1985 porno Blue Ice. It’s a neo-noir about a group of Nazis trying to take over the world by sexually controlling women. Crazy, right?
Wrote about American Ninja for My Year of Trash this week. It ends up being kind of a brief tangent about American values.
American Ninja
My Year of Trash Week 8
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February 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Wrote about American Ninja for My Year of Trash this week. It ends up being kind of a brief tangent about American values.
There are people who suggest there will be a lot of great art during an authoritarian regime. I offer this counterpoint: that’s not true.
February 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
There are people who suggest there will be a lot of great art during an authoritarian regime. I offer this counterpoint: that’s not true.