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idk it sucks when you get covid, but if the symptoms aren't too bad it's a transportive experience to be forcibly detached from the world and from your loved ones for ~ten days. you have to recalibrate. or maybe just calibrate. it also feels a little like time travel back to lockdown era. time continues to evaporate bro like being here on this site thinking about using myspace on an imac whenever that was.
Jan 23, 2024
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Been out of commission this week due to an injury and I’ve been loving this time to reflect on what’s going on with my life. It reminded me of lockdown when I reevaluated everything and changed my life. I’m not saying I’ll do something as drastic as that, but I’m definitely thinking about all the good that I got going on. Funny how some random shit can make ya ass look within and shit.
Apr 8, 2025
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too much reading and workshop has more or less kept me away from the internet for like a week and I kinda enjoyed the space to write and go to museums and explore the city? would I scale back? maybe, but it was almost liberating
Sep 18, 2024
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it feels so good to shut up and stay home for a week!
Apr 7, 2024
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Not the only one to rec this (obviously if you’re scrolling), but it’s one I’ve looked to a lot while working on some heist movie scripts. I think it’s perfectly structured, and I have a whole email in my archives where I break down exactly how it operates for reference. I even own a DVD
Mar 4, 2024
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The great filmmaker/critic/historian Peter Bogdanovich worked on this podcast. On it, he talks to contemporary filmmakers about dead filmmakers he interviewed when he was much younger. You get to hear clips from the old interviews interspersed with the new interviews as people like Guillermo Del Toro and Tarantino and Greta Gerwig discuss Hitchcock and Don Siegel and Howard Hawks. Sadly there are a couple episodes without Peter as he died before he was able to finish -- his ex-wife and Guillermo and Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach carried on the mission though. I knew Peter a minuscule amount when I was a kid working on an updated version of his documentary Directed By John Ford, and he was always so kind, remembered my name etc. (not a given). He had a tumultuous life and career but left an indelible mark on film history. Listen to this and watch Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, you can't go wrong.
Apr 1, 2024
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this is an almost 900-page book that i was in awe of, a kaleidoscopic view of the climate crisis, set in the near-future. stephen obviously researched and made his best projections about what is coming, and it is fascinating and catastrophic and cinematic. there's a sequence where la is on fire i will never forget; there's a couple of those sequences really. he doesn't engage with whether or not a super ai will save us or destroy us, but i can forgive him. this is a great book.
Jan 23, 2024