And the resulting empty feeling, I think could be thrilling to some folk, but I just bounce off it.

I really enjoyed a lot of Bugonia though.

Plemons was excellent as usual. As was Aiden Delbis.

I haven’t seen many Lanthimos films and I never read about them, so I don’t know what the consensus is beyond that he’s controversial and beloved by freaky peeps.

To me, though, his stories reject their own premise in a way that neutralizes the whole thing from being touching.

One of the absolute best. Really sad to hear this.

I saw a rendition of R&C Are Dead with Domenic Monaghan and Billy Boyd and it was a wonderful “first outing” with my mom after COVID.

It’s a play that feels different every time you see or read it, that grows up with you and holds your hand.

All artists should aspire towards Tom Stoppard.

Also, you know they’d get the whole thing done in like ten years, because they’ve been building these things since THE SIXTIESSSSSSSSS.

Get the Japanese Railway Group to fly over, set us up with a whole network of new lines — teach VIA exactly what to do, and help build it.

We could just give them the money because they know what they’re doing, and it’d be an awesome international partnership.

I love the tactile experience of vinyl records. Taking them off the shelf, looking at the jackets, placing the needle.

If I told someone they hadn’t heard their favourite album if they hadn’t also read the liner notes and felt the cardboard jacket, I’d be an insane person.

Having it in your hand, reading the words with your eyes is an, experiential preference, not a minimum requirement.

The reading, the interpreting, the engagement with the art happens in our minds and hearts.

The whole point of a book is that it’s easy to read. That’s its killer app.

Information laid out in a simple technology that allows for backwards and forwards tracking.

But people with dyslexia or ADHD among other conditions, have trouble with the way the info is presented.

…if the struggle to overcome and finish a book is so central to the experience for you that you judge people who choose not to, you might actually have one of the disabilities that audiobooks were designed to help with.

People think listening to an audiobook isn’t the same bc they see the book as something to overcome. Actively reading each word after the next makes it a mountain to climb rather than a parade to watch.

And I get that. I really do.

…but…