The other day I saw Sentimental Value and Eternity back to back. The former had me weeping throughout and instantly became my favorite film of the year. The latter was a perfectly fine and entertaining 3-star movie. It was a fully lived day!

I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever

It goes into that weird thing that genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism but everybody is getting trained to be such a cynical unfeeling asshole nowadays that I find the smartest people often are the “hell yeah cool song/drawing/story/video” people

good news, the torment nexus now allows wagers on what type of torment it will dispense

I gotta give the new album a real shot, but I saw Geese play an 150 person room in 2022 with Water From Your Eyes opening, and Water From Your Eyes was miles better. Geese was pretty unremarkable.