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The āuncensoredā re-release of this book which has ādeleted scenesā and āspecial featuresā has been something Iāve heard about in āliteratureā spaces, I think itās okay. Itās a bit annoying and the author is trying too hard to be like Bret Easton Ellis and clearly wants his book to be the male/Columbine era version of Catherine Hardwickeās Thirteen.Ā I do like that itās a satire of the whole āedgy teen movieā genre. I saw on Deadline itās being produced/adapted into a feature film produced by the team who did Spring Breakers and American Psycho. Fuck him. I guess weāre living through the apocalypse.Ā
Jun 13, 2025
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šChanged my views on how people consume forms of media and how context is key to every single interaction ever formed. It threads a certain needle between obscure behind the scenes relationships and what the public sees.
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šLA getting you down? because its Too Boring? Escape into this provocative - bordering-smut novel
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I donāt think pop music has historically ever had a moment like her āGirl, So Confusingā remix verse. Itās not a joke. Itās a triumph for literature. Everyone remembers where they were the first time they heard it. This was a serious revolution and took us out of her usual fever dreaminess of controlled poetic syntax (which I love) , to just unmasked, raw, chaotic feminine brutality and I donāt think we appreciate the prose switch-up enough. I also have said āletās work it out on the remix?ā to many people Iāve fought with since the song dropped. Sometimes I even write a verse mimicking the song taking accountability of what Iāve done and I send it to who Iām in a conflict with, it actually helps! Iām obsessed with the new singles off her upcoming album Virgin and Iām already studying the cadence of epigrams like āMDMA in the back gardenā,. Iām someone who struggles with severe summer depression, which is taboo in the world of seasonal sadists but taking my discman for a walk by the ocean as āThe Pathā starts up on my (files purchased on ITunes!) burnt CD-R copy of āSolar Powerā is natureās SSRI. Suck on that, Saint Johnās Wort.
Jun 13, 2025
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The reason I got a region free DVD player in my mid 20s was because I wanted to own a European copy of the Leonardo Dicaprio Gen X deep-cut/full of lore movie Donās Plum. If you can sometimes save the money, you spend on vaping, events, weed, alcohol, drugs or whatever to buy rare out of print DVDs (even bootlegs sometimes) that are locked to Japan, Australia, UK, whatever isnāt North American. Do it, youāll never regret it. The delayed gratification of waiting weeks for a DVD that is available to stream right now on some scary illegal link that has 300 pop ups to come in the mail may not make sense to a lot of people but I really appreciate the movie more, and having the association of the whole experience of having to track it down vs just getting it right now makes it so fun. I own a lot of rare TV series box sets from the 90s/2000s that never got released in North America, and are impossible to find online. Join me, you can live this lifestyle too!
Jun 13, 2025
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I write in fragments, and Iām constantly jotting down ideas all day long and what has been great is turning a Blackberry Bold into an offline word processor. I use the built in software and export my writing into a .docx and then put it on my computer via USB. Then I plug my notes into Scrivener.Ā Ā Iām a huge nerd about collecting offline-writing tech (shout out to Freewrite!) and it makes the rush of putting together a novel which I call the āincubation processā, a lot for more chaotic and fun.Ā Ā I consider writing to be like a scavenger hunt with your own brain and I feel like if you see your mind as a search engine, you can pull up a lot of insane ideas by just trusting your inner web browser.Ā
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