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@tdidtv.bsky.social
at once perpetually online and not. millennial noodle seeker, dormant musician, longstanding sapphic/wlw media enjoyer (esp. stories featuring the queer asian diaspora). 🇹🇼🇺🇸
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· Nov 30
doing a handle+pfp change because the #bluesky landscape is way more socially compelling now and i'm going back to my 2009 twitter roots, which involves using this kind of space as an outlet to yell about film & television when i vastly outpace my friends on watching things
last four watched: blue-postered short films with sapphic asians in or next to bodies of water. also, i made a related list: boxd.it/F3Hom
March 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
last four watched: blue-postered short films with sapphic asians in or next to bodies of water. also, i made a related list: boxd.it/F3Hom
oh my god whoops. this is the silliest last four watched. why does jenna laurenzo's "trilogy" of youtube shorts and michelle rodriguez's acting debut have such similar names? i swear i didn't plan this
February 28, 2025 at 6:15 AM
oh my god whoops. this is the silliest last four watched. why does jenna laurenzo's "trilogy" of youtube shorts and michelle rodriguez's acting debut have such similar names? i swear i didn't plan this
my excitement for THE WEDDING BANQUET cannot be overstated and i love that the teaser is set over a linda lindas song. gotta hold on tight to the things to look forward to.
The Wedding Banquet | Official Teaser | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Bleecker Street
youtu.be
January 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
my excitement for THE WEDDING BANQUET cannot be overstated and i love that the teaser is set over a linda lindas song. gotta hold on tight to the things to look forward to.
i went through a musicals era in high school (music ensemble kid, it was inevitable), listened to idina menzel sing this many times, and saw WICKED (among others) in london but haven't engaged with the movie at all until today, when this niche, algo-served fan coaster made me cry, wtf youtube
Defying Gravity | Synchronized Roller Coasters (Wicked)
YouTube video by Tube Cody
youtu.be
January 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
i went through a musicals era in high school (music ensemble kid, it was inevitable), listened to idina menzel sing this many times, and saw WICKED (among others) in london but haven't engaged with the movie at all until today, when this niche, algo-served fan coaster made me cry, wtf youtube
#SLOCG s3 was all over the place and aside from whitney's sports arc (the most successful of the season, i think) everything felt wildly rushed or incomplete. bela malhotra's finale plot for the win, i... guess? amrit kaur has chemistry with literally everyone on the show so opportunities abound.
January 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
#SLOCG s3 was all over the place and aside from whitney's sports arc (the most successful of the season, i think) everything felt wildly rushed or incomplete. bela malhotra's finale plot for the win, i... guess? amrit kaur has chemistry with literally everyone on the show so opportunities abound.
rabbitholing in action: i found this magic school bus/joanna cole tribute short film by following charlene lefever from a dove cameron music video, and i found *that* through director lauren sick's work, and i found *that* through an-li bogan's filmography, and i was looking at that because...
CLASS OF 97 | Award-Winning Magic School Bus Fan Film (2022)
YouTube video by Exemplar Pictures
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
rabbitholing in action: i found this magic school bus/joanna cole tribute short film by following charlene lefever from a dove cameron music video, and i found *that* through director lauren sick's work, and i found *that* through an-li bogan's filmography, and i was looking at that because...
same with small town/rural municipal updates. i want to see DPW alerts and yard waste collection announcements on my town website, not have to go onto facebook to do it.
While putting together this 1990s-style links page, I'm struck by how few activist orgs websites are built like blogs with constant updates about what's going on/calls to action. They've almost all ceded their news to their social media. Something that needs to change in 2025, imo. gregpak.link
Greg Pak - Links
gregpak.link
January 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
same with small town/rural municipal updates. i want to see DPW alerts and yard waste collection announcements on my town website, not have to go onto facebook to do it.
OPUS is giving me THE MENU meets YELLOWJACKETS vibes (i think it's the dyed clothes plus juliette lewis)
Opus | Official Trailer HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
OPUS is giving me THE MENU meets YELLOWJACKETS vibes (i think it's the dyed clothes plus juliette lewis)
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So here's what's cool about my job:
Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...
Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...
January 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
So here's what's cool about my job:
Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...
Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...
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I touch on it in the piece (gift link), but Lynch was the first director I ever interviewed, back in '78, and it was a sweet hot mess. I was a way-too-earnest film undergrad and he was a neophyte director, and this might have been one of his first interviews, but I kept asking him these dumb 1/x
Guest column | David Lynch, the visionary of America’s subconscious
Lynch was a singular auteur whose films found poetry in the ugly underbelly of American life.
wapo.st
January 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I touch on it in the piece (gift link), but Lynch was the first director I ever interviewed, back in '78, and it was a sweet hot mess. I was a way-too-earnest film undergrad and he was a neophyte director, and this might have been one of his first interviews, but I kept asking him these dumb 1/x
havana rose liu in lucy dacus's lovely new music video! i love MVs that are narrative short films. also i've been dying to use the word "inchoate" to describe something ever since i read it in a review of CERTAIN WOMEN. does it work here for whatever's happening between the two onscreen?
Lucy Dacus - Ankles (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by LucyDacusVEVO
youtu.be
January 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
havana rose liu in lucy dacus's lovely new music video! i love MVs that are narrative short films. also i've been dying to use the word "inchoate" to describe something ever since i read it in a review of CERTAIN WOMEN. does it work here for whatever's happening between the two onscreen?
me: why did the youtube algorithm put this random trailer on my home pa—
me: oh
me: oh
FLAT GIRLS | Official International Trailer
YouTube video by GDH
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
me: why did the youtube algorithm put this random trailer on my home pa—
me: oh
me: oh
t-coded characters (will inevitably change my mind later, but i like these for now)
January 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
t-coded characters (will inevitably change my mind later, but i like these for now)
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Even if you loved and were changed by a piece of art/media, you can still break up with it when things don't work out. Like with an ex, it can be a piece of your journey that you look back on rather than being this holy thing you have to actively love and consume forever. It is possible to move on.
January 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Even if you loved and were changed by a piece of art/media, you can still break up with it when things don't work out. Like with an ex, it can be a piece of your journey that you look back on rather than being this holy thing you have to actively love and consume forever. It is possible to move on.
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Harder to internalize, but overall healthier: accept that making good art doesn’t make anyone a good person
I don’t think that coming up with lists of “good” authors helps anyone. on a very basic level: you have no way of knowing if that’s true about anyone.
January 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Harder to internalize, but overall healthier: accept that making good art doesn’t make anyone a good person
i kicked off this year's criterion challenge with the stark, but not bleak CERTAIN WOMEN: "the constant, quiet loneliness of being seen and not heard, inflicting it on others even as it's inflicted on you." lily gladstone forever. also, kristen stewart's deliberate acting choice of unwrapped napkin.
A ★★★½ review of Certain Women (2016)
1/52, criterion challenge 2025 kelly reichardt brings us into the dreamy stillness of a wide-open montana winter that's largely unhurried, even in heightened situations that might elsewhere end violen...
letterboxd.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
i kicked off this year's criterion challenge with the stark, but not bleak CERTAIN WOMEN: "the constant, quiet loneliness of being seen and not heard, inflicting it on others even as it's inflicted on you." lily gladstone forever. also, kristen stewart's deliberate acting choice of unwrapped napkin.
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2025 is gonna be the most “editor sent it back for being too on the nose” year in human history
January 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
2025 is gonna be the most “editor sent it back for being too on the nose” year in human history
tired: posting to letterboxd like it's twitter
wired: posting to letterboxd like it's livejournal
wired: posting to letterboxd like it's livejournal
Despite ubiquitous reading challenges and stacked Letterboxd reviews, no one is monitoring how much you read or watch.
In this op-ed, culture director @kuhlaire.bsky.social explores the glut of reading challenges & obsessive Letterboxd movie tracking and what they say about how we engage with art.
In this op-ed, culture director @kuhlaire.bsky.social explores the glut of reading challenges & obsessive Letterboxd movie tracking and what they say about how we engage with art.
In 2025, Read (and Watch Movies) Like No One Is Looking
There's no big god of reading waiting to judge you for how much you read in 2025.
www.teenvogue.com
January 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
tired: posting to letterboxd like it's twitter
wired: posting to letterboxd like it's livejournal
wired: posting to letterboxd like it's livejournal
i'm not totally convinced yet that tsai ming-liang's slow cinema is for me, but what it does do is give minds plenty of time to wander. i wrote a personal bit about loneliness in the city, transactional affectations, and existential crises on letterboxd.
A ★★★½ review of Vive L'Amour (1994)
this was technically both my last watch of 2024 and first watch of 2025 and probably would've been a lot more emotionally effective had i not moved it to the top of my watchlist specifically as a 跨年 m...
letterboxd.com
January 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
i'm not totally convinced yet that tsai ming-liang's slow cinema is for me, but what it does do is give minds plenty of time to wander. i wrote a personal bit about loneliness in the city, transactional affectations, and existential crises on letterboxd.
more revenge tales in 2024 included both KILL BILLs (not first watches) and BLUE EYE SAMURAI. i also read akira otani's THE NIGHT OF BABA YAGA, translated by sam bett.
speaking of new-to-me-in-2024 faves, for books: far and away arkady martine's A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE and A DESOLATION CALLED PEACE.
speaking of new-to-me-in-2024 faves, for books: far and away arkady martine's A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE and A DESOLATION CALLED PEACE.
January 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
more revenge tales in 2024 included both KILL BILLs (not first watches) and BLUE EYE SAMURAI. i also read akira otani's THE NIGHT OF BABA YAGA, translated by sam bett.
speaking of new-to-me-in-2024 faves, for books: far and away arkady martine's A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE and A DESOLATION CALLED PEACE.
speaking of new-to-me-in-2024 faves, for books: far and away arkady martine's A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE and A DESOLATION CALLED PEACE.
i watched a completely unrelated, poorly mic'd short film before this that made me extra appreciate the sound design in INVASIVE SPECIES. (not actually comparing the two, just noting an intriguing/unintentional sequence of events.) been squeezing in some cool stuff the last few days of december.
A ★★★★½ review of Invasive Species (2023)
here, ambient noise done right thanks to sound design from anthony sertel dean that puts us right in the protagonist's headspace of creeping misophonic dread. i gotta make a list called "she ate" beca...
letterboxd.com
December 31, 2024 at 8:08 AM
i watched a completely unrelated, poorly mic'd short film before this that made me extra appreciate the sound design in INVASIVE SPECIES. (not actually comparing the two, just noting an intriguing/unintentional sequence of events.) been squeezing in some cool stuff the last few days of december.
VIVE L'AMOUR, which had its 30th anniversary this year, is available to stream on kanopy. very tempted to do a stateside version of this (but privately) to knock it off my watchlist, hah
December 30, 2024 at 9:11 PM
VIVE L'AMOUR, which had its 30th anniversary this year, is available to stream on kanopy. very tempted to do a stateside version of this (but privately) to knock it off my watchlist, hah
would be really funny if《媽，如果我是吸血鬼》(MOM, IF I WERE A VAMPIRE) were the indie horror short that got me to finally watch any wong kar-wai film, revisit gregg araki, and/or take shunji iwai's A BRIDE FOR RIP VAN WINKLE off my backlog, where it's been sitting for years. ...unless?
December 30, 2024 at 5:58 AM
would be really funny if《媽，如果我是吸血鬼》(MOM, IF I WERE A VAMPIRE) were the indie horror short that got me to finally watch any wong kar-wai film, revisit gregg araki, and/or take shunji iwai's A BRIDE FOR RIP VAN WINKLE off my backlog, where it's been sitting for years. ...unless?